US business leaders are spending big on Donald Trump’s second inaugural fund, which is predicted to exceed even the record-setting $107m raised in 2017.
The donations, which are not restricted by campaign finance laws, come as industries and business leaders seek to curry favor with the incoming administration after the president-elect decisively won a second, non-consecutive term in November.
Some of the planned donations reportedly include $1m each from Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Facebook parent company Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg.
Hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin has said he plans to donate $1m, Bloomberg reported; Uber and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi are reported to be chipping in $1m each; and Toyota, Ford and General Motors are each peeling off $1m. Ford is also reportedly coupling its donation with a fleet of vehicles.
“EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Thursday.
lmfao
What a fucking idjit.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Luigi
Luigi
True American hero!!!
All paying their tithe.
This is way less than 10%. He’s a bargain.
The percentage isn’t the point. The amount is. It’s telling the world who is under his thumb.
Did you … Did you donate $420,000.69 to my inauguration fund?
I guess this is how we make a list.
Why is it trump’s fund? I thought musk was the president
All these rich guys are donating the same amount? Yeah, that doesn’t feel like a donation but more like a purchase/fee/protection money.
Anyone got a full list? Asking for a friend…
Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Sam Altman (OpenAi), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), Jim Loree (Black and Decker), Toyota, Ford, General Motors, Intuit, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and many other undisclosed in the article.
The part particularly concerning to me is
Trump aides have indicated that the fundraising isn’t about the money but a symbolic means to exact an apology for any previous perceived lapse of loyalty.
a very fascist wording. You don’t have to be “loyal” to the President, unless he’s a dictator.
Heh. I only use one of those. Time to make a change, then.
RIP US democracy.
Bribes
Will they be paying people to fill the mall during the inauguration this time?
No need to pay when you can force them at gunpoint.
It’s the only way they’ll get anyone to show up. And with how fragile his ego is, this is likely high on his list.
It’ll be hilarious if the crowd is even smaller than last time.
One more reason to hate these guys.
Spineless fuckers!
