It has been revealed that Google and Microsoft donated approximately 160 million yen to President Trump's inauguration
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In preparation for Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025, it has been revealed that Google and Microsoft have each donated $1 million (approximately 158 million yen) to the IT industry, which has received numerous donations.
Google donates $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html
Google and Microsoft donate $1m each to Trump's inaugural fund | Google | The Guardian
Donations to Trump's inauguration included OpenAI's Sam Altman, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Meta, Uber, Toyota, and others, and in January 2025, Apple's Tim Cook also donated $1 million.
'We're excited to support the 2025 Presidential Inauguration by livestreaming it on YouTube and linking to it from within Google,' Karan Bhatia, Google's head of government affairs and public policy, said in a statement.
Google has donated money to and live-streamed presidential inaugurations in the past.
Similarly, Microsoft has also donated $1 million. Microsoft donated $500,000 (about 80 million yen) to Trump's inauguration in 2017 and Biden's inauguration in 2021, respectively, and this time the amount has doubled.
Trump has nominated Brendan Carr, a proponent of Big Tech regulation, to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, signaling his intention to crack down on Big Tech.
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For this reason, 'the inauguration is a golden opportunity for Big Tech to curry favor with Trump, because no one wants to be his punching bag for four years,' Brendan Glavin of the nonprofit organization OpenSecrets told CNBC .
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