Google and Microsoft donate $1 million apiece to Trump’s inauguration

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

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

Microsoft, which is besides giving $1 million, antecedently contributed $500,000 to Trump’s first inauguration and donated the 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 the app successful the US.