Imagine prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. Sheesh.
Giving him a literal gold bar (though disguised as a stand) is stereotypical buying El Presidente in a Banana Republic bullshit.
Now that’s pathetic. Whatever happened to apple? What was even the latest cool thing they did? Seems almost irrelevant now
In other countries this would be an 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.
The same loophole exists almost anywhere: “its a gift to white house or trumps library”
Emperor Cheesar accepting gold tribute from his feudal vassal
A set of shiny keys dangled in his face so he forgets about demanding a US-made Iphone.
Bribery is now not just legal, but mandatory
Gift? You mean bribe.
Yes this is a bribe. Period.
OK let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: it’s the only language he speaks. You must stroke his ego, and give him an opportunity to look down on you.
Of course it’s still corporate cronyism.
Yeah the real story here should be hey everyone, look how transparently easy it is to manipulate the President of the United States
Cost of doing business in a country ruled by a dictator who LOVES shiny shit
I guess Trump didn’t like the rimjob from Tim the first time.
Imagine if the CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world didnt bend over and spread cheeks for a cock so small Donald has to… employ the services of paedos like Jeffery Epstein…?
Donald is suspected of being a paedophile. Yet people still bend the knee like this. I tell you, when it finally comes out, I hope everyone remembers who was happy to continue kissing his ass. Fuck you, Tim.
So now that apple bent the knee can people finally stop buying apple shit?
Google hasn’t “bent the knee”? 😏
How about we make all tech ceos work in the cobalt mines instead of children
Let’s go. Start from the richest one down.
I guess I’m the only one who sees this as “here little Donald, now play with this and let me do my job”.
That’s exactly it.
Promise things that you’re doing anyway, use big numbers - hundreds of billions
Give him some shiny crap, he loves it
Praise him
Then he’ll let you go on as usual
I think it’s that and also more and all of it is wrong and disgusting.
What if he’s on the list and doesn’t want his name coming out.
Yeah that is not how dictatorship works. He is vending a knee
All the people that surely criticized Musk at the time, would surely not criticize cook this time, because Apple fans… They have it in their hands
Just suck him off already, you fucks. Come on commit!
This is a bit like mark rutte calling Trump “daddy”. It’s completely inconsequential in actual reality but still feels so entirely wrong. And I don’t even know who should be most embarrassed, the bootlickers or Trump for being transparently narcissistic that everyone realizes bootlicking works
I have always hated Apple, this is just further proof that they are greedy fucks with no morals.
“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”
Cost of doing business
Back door to Apple customer data maybe?
They already get that from the PRISM act.
