Google and Microsoft Each Donate $1 Million to Trump’s Inauguration Racket

CNBC:

Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, becoming the latest major tech company to try and curry some goodwill with the incoming administration.

“Google is pleased to support the 2025 inauguration, with a livestream on YouTube and a direct link on our homepage. We’re also donating to the inaugural committee,” Karan Bhatia, Google’s global head of government affairs and public policy, told CNBC in a statement.

So Google joins Amazon and Meta with $1 million company donations. Tim Cook and Sam Altman are in with $1 million personal donations. I originally posted this piece wrongly thinking Microsoft hadn’t joined the party, but they just did too. That leaves, among the big six, just one company which as yet has not been reported to have donated, either from the company or its CEO: Nvidia.

By the way, a reader pointed my way to Biden’s Presidential Inaugural Committee FEC filing from four years ago:

  • Microsoft gave $500,000.
  • Google gave $337,500.
  • Amazon gave $326,509.85.
  • Apple gave $43,200; Tim Cook gave nothing.
  • Neither Facebook (pre-name-change) nor Zuckerberg gave a cent.

★ Saturday, 11 January 2025