Apple CEO Tim Cook gives 24-karat gold gift to Donald Trump

[plm00@lemmy.ml]

This is my own conjecture, but I'm willing to bet that playing nicely with Pres. Trump somehow saves Apple billions more in lost revenue to tariffs and legislation because Trump rewards those who are on his good side. I'm also willing to bet Tim / Apple is pressured to do this and has a very different attitude behind closed doors. Not that this excuses anybody for their actions, but it's clear they're trying to game the system the best they can in the name of "business".

[mushuchupacabra@lemmy.world]

Scorched earth.

Let's see if apple enjoys the Tesla treatment.

[batdad90@lemmy.world]

They sure did!

[maeve@kbin.earth]

Thiel showed the way.

[maeve@kbin.earth]

https://paulstreet.substack.com/p/fascism-is-corporatism-the-merger

[reverendender@sh.itjust.works]

[angryrobot@lemmy.world]

Ready player 2!

[just_another_person@lemmy.world]

I can't wait for all these fuckwits to get what's coming to them.

[wazowski@lemmy.world]

Fucking gross.

[abettertomorrow@sh.itjust.works]

Fuck you Tim Cook

[entropyflux@lemmy.world]

So Trump didn’t want his usual bribe of a BJ and $10M??

[lumidaub@feddit.org]

Goddammit Tim Apple, it doesn't even look like anything remotely interesting.

For a split second after he stepped aside to reveal it, I actually thought it was a cool dragon figure. Must've been my mind desperately seeking any meaning in this nonsense because I was looking at the phones.

[thatradomguy@lemmy.world]

Time to boycott Apple just like everybody decided to boycott Target and Amazon for bending over.

[farraigeplaisteach@lemmy.world]

Keeping our morals behind closed doors is what's wrong with the world.

[medicpigbabysaver@lemmy.world]

Release the Epstein files

[skulblaka@sh.itjust.works]

You're probably right.

That doesn't change my opinion, though, that everyone at Apple can go suck-start their own asshole, and they'll never receive another cent of my money for as long as I live.

I already wasn't buying their shit but this has signed and sealed that for the rest of eternity.

[sturmblast@lemmy.world]

Oh hey, another reason Apple fucking sucks. Look at that.

[ambitiousprocess@piefed.social]

Apple stock did, and unfortunately it even makes sense why. Considering how self-centered Trump is, and how easily swayed he can be by a literal shiny rock being given to him, this was probably a legitimately good trade for Apple.

They spend some money on a gold brick with some laser-cut glass, and the president of the entire country either gives them preferential treatment, or simply doesn't take any more extreme actions he was planning to take against them.

[rivalarrival@lemmy.today]

[noneofurbusiness@fedia.io]

I mean at this point you'll have to boycott everyone. Boycotting isn't gonna cut it anymore.