Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration committee.
The donation comes following a strained relationship between Cook and the Biden administration after the Justice Department sued Apple in March, alleging the company had a monopoly on the smartphone market.
Cook rarely interacted with President Joe Biden, but during the Trump administration, he was a regular visitor to the White House. Cook would strategize with Trump on achieving Apple’s and Trump’s mutual interests, the Wall Street Journal reported.
As Trump proposes to implement tough tariffs to attack China’s growing supremacy, where Apple makes many of its products, Cook will try to emulate the positive relationship he created with the president-elect during his first administration. In 2019, Cook was able to convince Trump over dinner in 2019 that a tariff on phones created in…
