{"id":4143,"date":"2024-12-27T03:20:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/corporations-hoping-to-get-on-trumps-good-side-are-donating-big-bucks-to-his-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:20:30","slug":"corporations-hoping-to-get-on-trumps-good-side-are-donating-big-bucks-to-his-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/corporations-hoping-to-get-on-trumps-good-side-are-donating-big-bucks-to-his-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporations hoping to get on Trump’s good side are donating big bucks to his inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As President-elect Donald Trump<\/a> prepares to return to the White House in January, corporations and <\/strong>their executives are vying to get on his good side, <\/strong>with some companies <\/strong>donating seven-figure sums to his inauguration. <\/p>\n

Silicon Valley giants <\/a>like Meta<\/a>Amazon, Uber and OpenAI have contributed at least $1 million each to Trump’s inaugural fund. As The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> Tuesday, citing donors and people familiar with the matter, companies that previously condemned the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and vowed to reconsider support<\/a> for politicians who rejected the 2020 election results — like Ford, Goldman Sachs and AT&T — have similarly made large contributions to Trump’s 2025 inauguration. (A Mother Jones report last year<\/a> found several corporations, including AT&T, gave money to at least one election-denying lawmaker during the 2022 election cycle after promising to pause contributions to such officials. Neither NBC News nor BLN has independently verified the Journal and Mother Jones reports.)<\/p>\n

“People just really want to move forward and move on. The election results were very clear,” a representative at one of the companies mentioned in the Journal report told the outlet. The Journal did not specify which company employs the representative.<\/p>\n

The donations to Trump’s inauguration have come at such furious pace that his inaugural committee is on track to raise more than $150 million, ABC News reported<\/a>citing sources familiar with the matter. <\/strong>That amount would dwarf the $62 million President Joe Biden’s inaugural fund raised in 2021 and surpass the $107 million in contributions to Trump’s inaugural committee in 2017. <\/p>\n

Donations to inaugural committees are not restricted by federal law. With Trump expected to make drastic changes to federal policies that oversee a host of industries, several corporate executives — including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos<\/a>Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> and Apple’s Tim Cook<\/a> — <\/strong>have already paid a visit to Mar-a-Lago<\/a> for some face time with the president-elect. They also likely see these corporate contributions as a chance to generate even more goodwill with the incoming president, whose approach to politics has been more nakedly transactional<\/a> than most.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Clarissa-Jan Lim<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking\/trending news blogger for BLN Digital. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House in January, corporations and their executives are vying to get on his good side, with some companies donating seven-figure sums to his inauguration. Silicon Valley giants like MetaAmazon, Uber and OpenAI have contributed at least $1 million each to Trump’s inaugural fund. As The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}