{"id":18386,"date":"2024-12-14T09:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T10:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18386"},"modified":"2024-12-14T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T10:25:45","slug":"tech-industry-and-ceos-curry-favor-with-trump-ahead-of-his-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18386","title":{"rendered":"Tech Industry and CEOs Curry Favor With Trump Ahead of His Inauguration\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.<\/p>\n

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The $1 million donations came gradually \u2014 and then all at once.<\/p>\n

Meta<\/a>. Amazon<\/a>. OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman<\/a>. Each of these Silicon Valley companies or their leaders promised to support President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s inaugural committee with seven-figure checks over the past week, often accompanied by a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to bend the knee.<\/p>\n

The procession of tech leaders who traveled to hobnob with Mr. Trump face-to-face included Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive, and Sergey Brin, a Google founder, who together dined with Mr. Trump on Thursday. Tim Cook<\/a>, Apple\u2019s chief executive, shared a meal with Mr. Trump on Friday. And Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, planned to meet with Mr. Trump in the next few days. <\/p>\n

This was the week when many tech companies and their top executives, as reluctant as they may have been, acknowledged the reality of getting business done in Mr. Trump\u2019s Washington. With their donations, visits and comments, they joined a party that has already raged for a month, as a cohort of influential Silicon Valley billionaires, led by Elon Musk, began running parts<\/a> of Mr. Trump\u2019s transition after endorsing him in the campaign. <\/p>\n

While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president\u2019s good side, the frenzy of tech activity stood out from other industries. Until President Obama\u2019s administration, the tech industry had largely stayed aloof from politics. Some wrote just small checks for Mr. Trump\u2019s first inauguration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now the bread-breaking with Mr. Trump has become highly public. Meta and Amazon, whose founders had previously been criticized by Mr. Trump, said they would donate $1 million to Mr. Trump\u2019s inaugural fund this week. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, the high-profile artificial intelligence start-up, said on Friday that a $1 million donation to Mr. Trump\u2019s inaugural fund would come from him personally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, was among the most politically active Democratic tech donors during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term.<\/span>Jeenah Moon for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.The $1 million donations came gradually \u2014 and then all at once.Meta. Amazon. OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman. Each of these Silicon Valley companies or their leaders promised to support President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s inaugural committee with seven-figure checks over the past week, often accompanied by a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to bend the knee.The procession of tech leaders who traveled to hobnob with Mr. Trump face-to-face included Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive, and Sergey Brin, a Google founder, who together dined with Mr. Trump on Thursday. Tim Cook, Apple\u2019s chief executive, shared a meal with Mr. Trump on Friday. And Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, planned to meet with Mr. Trump in the next few days. This was the week when many tech companies and their top executives, as reluctant as they may have been, acknowledged the reality of getting business done in Mr. Trump\u2019s Washington. With their donations, visits and comments, they joined a party that has already raged for a month, as a cohort of influential Silicon Valley billionaires, led by Elon Musk, began running parts of Mr. Trump\u2019s transition after endorsing him in the campaign. While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president\u2019s good side, the frenzy of tech activity stood out from other industries. Until President Obama\u2019s administration, the tech industry had largely stayed aloof from politics. Some wrote just small checks for Mr. Trump\u2019s first inauguration.Now the bread-breaking with Mr. Trump has become highly public. Meta and Amazon, whose founders had previously been criticized by Mr. Trump, said they would donate $1 million to Mr. Trump\u2019s inaugural fund this week. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, the high-profile artificial intelligence start-up, said on Friday that a $1 million donation to Mr. Trump\u2019s inaugural fund would come from him personally.Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, was among the most politically active Democratic tech donors during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term.Jeenah Moon for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18388,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18389,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions\/18389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}