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US business leaders are spending big on Donald Trump’s second inaugural fund, which is predicted to exceed even the record-setting $107m raised in 2017.
The donations, which are not restricted by campaign finance laws, come as industries and business leaders seek to curry favor with the incoming administration after the president-elect decisively won a second, non-consecutive term in November.
Some of the planned donations reportedly include $1m each from Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Facebook parent company Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg.
Hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin has said he plans to donate $1m, Bloomberg reported; Uber and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi are reported to be chipping in $1m each; and Toyota, Ford and General Motors are each peeling off $1m. Ford is also reportedly coupling its donation with a fleet of vehicles.
Again, you’re seeking to normalize trump, and you’re wrong to do so. “He’s not that out of the ordinary”… maybe among other ghoulish republican pieces of shit that had historically negative impacts on the stability of our democracy and again, trump is an order of magnitude beyond anything before him. Regan was a cancer, but he didn’t allow for and encourage a Jan 6th insurrection as trump did and does, for example.
This isn’t regan, as insidiously horrible as he was - if you’d like, regan was a surgeon with a scalpel, a patient list provided and clear instructions of how to execute select victims. trump is an unhinged serial killer that uses a bowling ball covered in rusted nails to kill, and his victim choice depends a lot on who looks at him on the bus that day. And he’s also sundowning in parallel, so sometimes you didn’t even look at him on the bus and you’re still getting the ball to the back of the head because he shit his pants and the sound startled him into a blind rage.