Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
I don’t get why people are NOW saying he’s trying to appease trump. He’s been doing it for years. He was front row at his inauguration right next to other billionaires.
Giving him a literal gold bar (though disguised as a stand) is stereotypical buying El Presidente in a Banana Republic bullshit.
Sounds like the US’ chickens coming home to roost. After creating those conditions with their CIA elsewhere for decades.
Bribe. The word you’re looking for
Definitely, as after this it was announced that Apple would not be affected by the 100% semiconductor tariffs.
Gift? You mean bribe.
Yes this is a bribe. Period.
Is it a bribe or ransom? Trump is extracting favors by threat.
Cost of doing business in a country ruled by a dictator who LOVES shiny shit
It is a gift. The same gift that the Noble gave to their King, so they would not get replaced or lose power. It is a Hail to the King move.
Uhh acktchually its sparkling lobbying
Tim Cook, and Apple, is supporting a pedophile. Remember that when you walk into an Apple Store, if you can afford to.
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
So is Google and every major company
I bet most of the people here replying in the comments are typing on what helped pay for that gold plated ass kissing device.
Ya but I am pretty sure Google has done a lot to help Trump. Any big tech company wants to be on the good side of Trump.
Exactly, they all are sucking that orange teet now.
Nope.
I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a capital GMaybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.
When you’re rich and powerful as fuck but still bend the knee to a felon rapist pedophile.
All of America’s most “powerful” people are little fucking bitches. Little bitches are calling the shots and representing us to the world. Jesus Christ how pathetic is this country going to get?
Conservatives: Hold my beer.
reality is often disappointing.
Release the Epstein files
Surely they will throw him in prison!
enthusiastic dick sucking noises
Like in the grapefruit technique video.
His name really is Tim Apple now.
In other countries this would be a criminal offense. For example in Austria: if the value of the gift is above 50000€ , it’s 6 months - 5 years; if over 300k€ it’s 1-10 years of prison.
Oh, this is 100% a criminal offense for any government employee that isn’t Donald Trump (or someone that he has decided to shield).
Low level government workers can’t even accept someone paying for their lunch.
The same loophole exists almost anywhere: “its a gift to white house or trumps library”
It’s criminal here too. But laws don’t matter anymore because the “party of law and order” decided to elevate a felon rapist pedophile.
In other countries this would be a criminal offense.
Dialing 911 and telling my local constabulary that the President is doing crimes. But then they just laugh at me and say “We’re all doing crimes! It’s the innocent people who get thrown in jail.”
Bribery is now not just legal, but mandatory
Tim Cuck
I’m sure this has been pointed out before, but it’s very appropriate that the video for “This is America” was shot in an abandoned factory building.
This is my own conjecture, but I’m willing to bet that playing nicely with Pres. Trump somehow saves Apple billions more in lost revenue to tariffs and legislation because Trump rewards those who are on his good side. I’m also willing to bet Tim / Apple is pressured to do this and has a very different attitude behind closed doors. Not that this excuses anybody for their actions, but it’s clear they’re trying to game the system the best they can in the name of “business”.
Keeping our morals behind closed doors is what’s wrong with the world.
Almost like it’s a completely bullshit excuse, like “just following orders”.
Crime isn’t suddenly okay because it’s profitable, no matter how much capitalism wants you to believe it.
It’s like nuclear weapons
Unless everyone gets rid of them nobody will
Being the only one not to “bend the knee” will just hurt you if everyone else kisses his ass
Nobody should get rid of their nukes. In fact, more countries should have nuclear arms.
Such is life on planet earth.
This is apple we’re talking about. Not some random company.
There are bigger random companies who are bending the knee like Meta, Amazon and Google
All 3 of those are smaller than Apple. The only 2 companies with bigger market caps than Apple are Nvidia and Microsoft.
Market cap isn’t everything.
Meta by itself has a bigger cultural impact globally
That’s not how companies are measured against each other though. How are you even quantifying the cultural impact? You could have said many companies are bigger than Apple because they have a bigger physical footprint, bigger customer base, larger number of staff, bigger area of operation, larger mass of product or many other things but the fact is when we compare the “size” of companies, we are referring to their market cap.
You’re probably right.
That doesn’t change my opinion, though, that everyone at Apple can go suck-start their own asshole, and they’ll never receive another cent of my money for as long as I live.
I already wasn’t buying their shit but this has signed and sealed that for the rest of eternity.
