Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will personally give $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump‘s inaugural committee — the latest move by a Big Tech exec to cozy up to the incoming president.
Apple itself not expected to make any donations to the incoming president, according to a report Friday by Axios, which first reported on Cook’s planned million-dollar donation. “Cook, a proud Alabama native, believes the inauguration is a great American tradition, and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity,” per Axios’s report, citing anonymous sources.
Apple reps did not respond to a request for comment.
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Cook joins other tech companies and execs that are giving money to Trump’s inauguration. Amazon and Meta are each giving $1 million to the president-elect’s inauguration fund, while OpenAI chief Sam Altman also plans to donate the same amount.
In December, Cook trekked to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound to meet with the president-elect over dinner. Other execs who have made the trip to Florida to meet with Trump include Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
Cook also was among the CEOs who congratulated Trump after he won the 2024 U.S. presidential election. “Congratulations President Trump on your victory!” Cook posted on X on Nov. 6. “We look forward to engaging with you and your administration to help make sure the United States continues to lead with and be fueled by ingenuity, innovation, and creativity.”
Other companies donating to Trump’s inauguration include Toyota, Ford, GM, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and cryptocurrency exchanges Kraken and Coinbase. For Trump’s 2025 inauguration, donors who give at least $1 million are being promised high-level access to the president-elect and his inner circle with up to “a half-dozen tickets to eight inaugural events” from Jan. 17-20, including an “elegant and intimate dinner with President Donald J. Trump and Mrs. Melania Trump” on Jan. 19, the New York Times reported.