Apple CEO Tim Cook donates over $1.5 million to Trump's inauguration

In the 2024 US presidential election held in November 2024, Republican candidate Donald Trump was elected as the 47th President of the United States. The next President Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States at the presidential inauguration ceremony to be held on January 20, 2025, and it has become clear that the technology industry has made a large donation to this inauguration.

Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration
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Axios reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook donated $1 million (approximately 157 million yen) to the President-elect Trump's inauguration committee. Donations to the inauguration have also been made by major technology companies and celebrities, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman , Amazon founder Jeff Bezos , and Meta .

Cook is known to have built a personal friendship with Trump during his first term as president. With Trump as the next president, it is said that technology company CEOs are trying to emulate Cook's strategy, and when Trump won the 2024 US presidential election, he received congratulations from various prominent figures in the IT industry.

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According to Axios, Cook met with Trump at Trump Tower and at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

An anonymous source who provided information to Axios said, 'Cook is proud to be from Alabama and believes the inauguration is a great American tradition, so he offered to donate to the inauguration in a spirit of solidarity.' The source added that the donation to the inauguration is solely from Cook himself, and that Apple 'is not expected' to make a donation.

It has also been reported that Elon Musk, who contributed greatly to Trump's victory in the presidential election, was present at both the dinner between Bezos and Trump in December 2024 and the dinner between Trump and CEO Cook.

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