“EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Thursday.
lmfao
What a fucking idjit.
He is. He is also the one getting paid, so he's not alone.
Luigi
Luigi
Luigi
True American hero!!!
All paying their tithe.
This is way less than 10%. He's a bargain.
The percentage isn't the point. The amount is. It's telling the world who is under his thumb.
Did you ... Did you donate $420,000.69 to my inauguration fund?
Overthrowing a democracy is expensive
Pretty cheap if you're a billionaire
That's because they socialize the cost.
I guess this is how we make a list.
Why is it trump’s fund? I thought musk was the president
It must be like the charity bowl they put out at events. Musk doesn't need the money but Trump is desperate for it.
He's acting president.
Anyone got a full list? Asking for a friend...
Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Sam Altman (OpenAi), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), Jim Loree (Black and Decker), Toyota, Ford, General Motors, Intuit, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and many other undisclosed in the article.
The part particularly concerning to me is
Trump aides have indicated that the fundraising isn’t about the money but a symbolic means to exact an apology for any previous perceived lapse of loyalty.
a very fascist wording. You don't have to be "loyal" to the President, unless he's a dictator.
Heh. I only use one of those. Time to make a change, then.
Will they be paying people to fill the mall during the inauguration this time?
No need to pay when you can force them at gunpoint.
It's the only way they'll get anyone to show up. And with how fragile his ego is, this is likely high on his list.
It'll be hilarious if the crowd is even smaller than last time.
To be fair, they didn't start the tradition of having ridiculous expensive coronation ceremonies paid with legalized bribes every four years. And even that is just a symptom of the monarchical nature of the US presidency.
RIP US democracy.
One more reason to hate these guys.
All these rich guys are donating the same amount? Yeah, that doesn’t feel like a donation but more like a purchase/fee/protection money.
Bribes
Dumb Donnie will keep most of the money and everyone will get 1 cocktail weenie as a snack. Fleecing the idiots is his job.
Spineless fuckers!
They donate to every inauguration. Apparently that's traditional. Expecting billionaires to show spine here is to expect them to go against their financial interests. They wouldn't be billionaires of they were willing to do that.
Yes. But your statement seeks to normalize trump as any other president. He is not.
The point isn't that they've given before, it's that they are giving to him, now, with all of his clearly stated intent to harm people and American democracy.
Meta is least surprising, they hired one of the actual authors of Project 2025 and he still works there today AFAIK.
I think it's useful for people to consider that he's not that out of the ordinary. Instead he's just blatantly transparent, whereas others have been more covert. E.g. Reagan did receive a handbook from the Heritage Foundation. He implemented 60% of it within a year. That's the same Heritage Foundation that produced Project 2025. I think understanding that could help people look for solutions that stop perpetuating the ordinary that's gotten us to where we are today. And yes, of course there are differences between any two candidates or presidents, some significant in the way they affect the majority. Placed on a timeline however, they seem more like slight changes on the trend line towards a strong oligarchy.
Indeed, here are some of the donors for the Obama inauguration: https://www.opensecrets.org/obama/inaug.php
Take down those names.
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