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Apple donated $1 million to Trump. So did all the other big tech CEOs, who were also invited as distinguished guests to his inauguration. Conservatives like Trump generally favor big business and deregulation. Your faith in Trump doing anything meaningful about big tech is likely misplaced.

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they were invited to be a display of his power over them, and to display this to the world

not to be distinguished guests

if he can do options and hedge trading against it to personally enrich himself I'm sure he'd be game.

That’s too complicated. Just extort them until they buy $TRUMP coin and open a “factory” in the US for a photo op.

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