I mean, if he's that cheap to bribe, you'd be stupid not to.

Tim Apple supports a raping pedophile.

Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if Obama did any of this?

I don't know if we have enough perals in existence to clutch.

Doing it on Live Television is the whole point. Trump wants the world to see exactly how to avoid things like Tariffs and get preferential treatment: bribe him personally and/or "kiss the ring".

As another gay man, this guy is a disgrace to all gays. He bends over backwards to serve a child fucking rapist. Just to save some cash for a company with basically limitless cash.

The federal government is a protection racket now. You pay your money and your windows don't get broken and your business doesn't mysteriously catch fire. It may be illegal, but who's going to do anything about it?

Afterwards, and it wasn't shown on TV, in the presidential bathroom Tim apple got on his knees and sucked trumps cock. He even tickled his balls with his tongue.

I’m not saying that appeasement is always the way, but I’d rather Apple stayed off Trump’s vindictive side by giving him a little shiny toy then by giving them (for example) user data or backdoors into their platform.

Yes, in an ideal world, they’d tell the whole administration to go fuck itself, but they also don’t want to be destroyed by the government (however illegal that may be, do you really think they’d survive long enough for all the legal challenges to go through the system if Trump decided Apple had to go?)

Tim Cook is a Trump supporter

He’s never seen a baron make a display of fealty to a king before?

Tim Apple simply exchanged a $4k trinket for billions in savings. This is probably not even the most pathetic thing a billionaire does on the daily.

That whole press conference was ridiculous. Tim Cook, I hope you remember this: you can kiss Trump‘s ass all you like. He can turn on you in a second anyway. And probably will.

Its a fucking bribe. Way to go America. I hope you choke on it.

He was demonstrating how bribery works in a corrupt system.

and Muricans go: "wE aRE noT thERe YeT!!"

A little gift for the Sultan!

Coming from a non-US centric point of view: I generally believed in the idea that the government does everything it does for the good of an entity. Sometimes that entity is the people (legality of cannabis), sometimes it is one person (presidential pardons) and sometimes its a company (bailouts). We can argue how 'good' any of these actions actually are, but thats beside the point. I always knew there were backdoor deals and some companies or some people got special privileges (corruption). But that was always behind closed doors. Rarely did it leak to the public stage and when it did, news coverage and accountability followed (usually).

However you may feel about government, it generally works on the principles of law. The ideal was; If you followed the law, you had the same opportunity as anyone else doing it.

I still can't comprehend how Trump completely flipped this around. There is no semblance of just democracy and unjust corruption anymore. Giving the president actual gold in exchange for an exemption of law while openly broadcasting it. The ideal is broken and shattered on live TV. Justice is now blind because Trump is pissing on her face and she cant look at his limp dick anymore.

the constitution ain't shit.

He is kissing Trumps ass, so lame. Am ending with buying new apple products!

lol he behaves like a mediaeval king in addition to smelling like one

The Return On Investment of Corruption has always been massive in the US.

I'm curious what would happen if a band of rogue companies went full cyberpunk and just completely ignored/bypassed the administration. I know it would have terrible consequences but it fun to see an entity with fuck you money actually say fuck you.

Context for those who didn't catch the news article: https://www.advocate.com/news/tim-cook-donald-trump-gift

Getting poor Asian people to work for you for slave wages produces a lot of gold, OP.

Ok - that whole thing was absurd and cringey and Tim is a billionaire and billionaires shouldn’t exist but I think Tim is far from one of the richest CEOs in the world.

I don’t think he even makes the top 20; maybe even top 50?