Apple is boycotting the Republican National Convention this year due to Donald Trump being the party’s presumed nominee, but CEO Tim Cook actually wants to strengthen ties with the GOP.
Cook reportedly plans to host a fundraiser for House Speaker Paul Ryan next week as part of the Apple’s effort to court Republican lawmakers.
Cook’s fundraiser will be held June 28 in Menlo Park, California, reports Politico, which obtained a copy of the invite sent out Monday. The private breakfast will be co-hosted by Apple VP & Treasurer Gary Wipfler.
The fundraiser comes after Apple decided against donating cash and technology to the GOP convention next month due to Trump’s vitriolic remarks about immigrants, minorities and women. Trump hasn’t commented about Apple’s GOP convention no-show yet. He called for a boycott of Apple earlier in the presidential campaign, saying the company should manufacture its products in the United States rather than overseas. Trump failed to live up to the boycott himself.
The Cook and Ryan breakfast isn’t being officially held by Apple because the company does not have a political action committee, unlike Facebook, Google and Microsoft, which have significantly larger lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C.
Cook has been no stranger to both sides of the aisle during his visits to the nation’s capital. The Apple CEO has played a larger political role than Steve Jobs, making appearances before House committees as well as meeting with Democrat and Republican lawmakers.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
13 responses to “Tim Cook doesn’t hate all Republicans — just Donald Trump”
because socialism will improve Apple’s profit margin. more stupid leftist bullshit…
You are 100% right. Either support Donald Trump or you’re a socialist. Just look at how fucked up Sweden is.
That was 100% sarcasm.
You are confusing Democrats and socialism, the Democratic party is not socialism, it’s just that when society becomes TOO capitalistic, they try to move the needle more towards the middle. We live in a society where sometimes that needle between total socialism and total capitalism leans too far one way or another and we have to keep it in the middle somehow. Total capitalism isn’t good either, that’s when we don’t have a middle class and what we have is either the super rich (small group of people) and the super poor (the majority) and unfortunately our country is becoming a small population of super rich and then a bunch of super poor. The middle class is getting smaller and smaller and we HAVE to figure out how to preserve the middle class and that’s what moving that needle towards the left will do.
Have you taken a macro economics class lately? Neither 100% socialism or 100% capitalism works. Our society has been leaning towards too much towards capitalism and it’s not working.
What the fuck are you even talking about?
Good for Apple, all counts. Tim Cook is shaping up to be quite the CEO.
Yeah and I hate Tim for what he is…sigh …next!
Damn it Tim . Focus on your computers.
Trump wants Apple to have a backdoor in their OS, I think that’s one of the main reasons why they don’t want to support Trump.
He is focused on Apple as a whole.
Yes whole iOS and macOS And emoji
Trump is an idiot. He’s rich, but for President, he’d be an idiot. He doesn’t THINK things through before he opens his mouth. He wants Apple to have a backdoor in their OS. He’s not FOR people’s privacy.
When it comes to the privacy issues, not all Republicans or Democrats are on the same side, but we already know Trump is against keeping people’s privacy.
Paul Ryan is Trumps fluffer.
Trump does not represent true Republicans. Glad Tim is meeting with both parties.
But he likes Hillary? How cold any decent human being support a career politician who has lied, deceived, bullied her entire life while being involved in countless scandals and corruption. We’re doomed!