Google And Microsoft Donate $1 Million Apiece To Trump’s Inauguration

Google and Microsoft are nan latest tech companies to donate to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Each institution contributed $1 cardinal to nan money — nan aforesaid magnitude pledged by Meta, Amazon, Sam Altman, and Tim Cook.

In a connection to CNBC, Karan Bhatia, Google’s world caput of authorities affairs and nationalist policy, said nan institution is supporting nan inauguration “with a livestream connected YouTube and a nonstop nexus connected our homepage,” arsenic bully arsenic pinch a financial contribution. The assistance whitethorn beryllium information of Google’s larger strategy to triumph complete Trump, who has threatened to break up nan tech elephantine aliases unopen it down altogether.

Microsoft, which is too giving $1 million, antecedently contributed $500,000 to Trump’s first inauguration and donated nan aforesaid magnitude to President Joe Biden’s inauguration fund, a institution spokesperson told CNBC. Per CNBC, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has met pinch Trump aggregate times, and was progressive successful negotiations complete acquiring TikTok successful 2020, erstwhile Trump tried to prohibition nan app successful nan US.