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Microsoft contributes $1M to Trump's inauguration fund
- bloomingkales 2y agoI’m kind of embarrassed at this level of corruption.
- beanjuiceII 2y agoit's corruption to donate to an inauguration fund?
- bloomingkales 2y agoYes.
- jltsiren 2y agoThe entire concept of an inauguration fund is corruption. Public ceremonies should either be paid with tax money or not held at all.
- krapp 2y agoI agree, but mostly because I think the office of President has become too culturally powerful, and the ceremony too much like that of a monarch. I want my President to be a bureaucrat, with their election and inauguration having no more pomp and circumstance than the hiring of an office worker. Maybe we wouldn't get narcissists like Trump and Musk in the White House if the office seemed beneath their dignity.
- basementcat 2y agoI think an electoral majority of Americans don’t want the federal government to be spending their tax dollars on this and are happy to see private businesses contributing instead. Perhaps other agencies (such as SEC, FCC, FAA, FDA, etc.) can operate similarly and help lower the burden on taxpayers.
- jltsiren 2y agoIt's common that corruption persists, because people prefer it that way. But that doesn't make it any less corrupt.
- bloomingkales 2y agoDon’t do this. The entire history of the Roman republic is people purchasing power and armies, follow the money, abstract it down to .. coin. Cesar owned armies, owned, then he took them and marched on Rome. First buy the army.
- impulser_ 2y agoWere you embarrassed when they did it in 2020, 2017, and 2012?
- techfeathers 2y agoYes. Moreso for 2020 and 2012.
- bloomingkales 2y agoI have been stunned into a catatonic state from the embarrassment. Nay, it’s a violation. I feel violated. Right to our faces, unhinged.
- wumeow 2y agoThis is a record amount, twice what they donated in 2020 and 2017. Trump’s inaugural fund has raised $170MM compared to $62MM for Biden in 2020, a new record. https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-donors-6867ed2f2ffa0bce1802f9366b2a413b https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-donors-6867ed2...
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- gnabgib 2y agoSo that's.. Meta https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42404440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42404440 Amazon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407624 Sam Altman https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42422508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42422508 Uber https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42447144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42447144 Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42447144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42447144 Tim Cook https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589464 (+Microsoft https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42648662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42648662)
- ein0p 2y agoGoogle, too: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-.... Google's internal meme/activist site, Memegen, must be losing its mind right now.