The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold

[Swede]

Apple CEO, Time Cook, gave Trump a gift, not a bribe. Tim Apple is a great guy.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) 2025-08-09T13:36:26.040Z

I can imagine him showing off his bribes to friends and family.
"And this is the gift Tim Cook gave me when I fucked the country"

— Joe Wilson (@cantcny.bsky.social) 2025-08-09T14:06:48.085Z

[tinrobot]

1. The cost of that bauble is a rounding error on their trillions

Sad that a cheap, shiny object is all it takes to buy compliance.

[lapfog_1]

2. that would be Tim Apple

LOL

[Brainfodder]

3. Tim Cook to me looked like another weak OLD FART billionaire doing attention seeking bucket list tier crap?

Civil war idea against billionaire class started yet?
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[johnnyfins]

4. I wonder what Steve Jobs would think

[Initech]

5. This is some North Korea shit here.

[Morbius]

6. There's a scene in The Godfather Part II where...

...the Dons are passing around a telephone made of solid gold.

Life imitates art.

[TnDem]

7. Presidential gifts

I don't think any President personally keeps "gifts" bestowed on them while in office...I remember seeing an entire display once of gifts given to Presidents by other foreign leaders and business magnates...

The gifts include rare paintings, gold plated firearms, jars of jellybeans and tapestries and much more.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. Until now, that is...

Probably just as well. Where would the National Archives keep a $400M jet?

[Justice matters.]

9. A $400 million 747 flying golden palace costing near a billion to refurbish into a 3rd AF1

the pedofelon gets to keep after his term (if it ever "ends"...) as his private 747 flying golden palace, charged on the national debt's credit card...

Link to tweet

[TnDem]

15. Nope....Doesn't work that way

Trump doesn't get to keep anything over a "nominal" value, which means insignificant trinket without the consent of Congress.

There's also the matter of Constitution (Article I, Section 9) and the Foreign Gifts Act of 1966 and 1977. If he wants to keep the airplane, he can but he has to pay "fair market value" for it.

So, no...

[MagickMuffin]

16. Ya know, they took government property last time around

They took boxes and boxes of government documents and who knows what else. As far as I know he still has all those documents still at his mansion in Florida.


Do you think they won’t do it again?

[TnDem]

17. Documents?

So did Biden and so did Hillary Clinton...Big deal....Nothingburger.

Trump can't accept a multi-billion dollar jet as a personal gift....This is not a few emails or a couple of boxes of paper.

[Justice matters.]

18. Nope.

It will be 'donated' to the Trump Presidential Library.

Besides, the pedofelon doesn't give a crap about either the Constitution or Congress, so it's his and the taxpayers get to pay the capital plus interests.

[TnDem]

19. It can't be

You don't understand the obvious law here....No president gets to keep anything beyond "nominal" gifts. If they want something that was given to the office of the President, then they must pay fair market value when their term ends.

[Justice matters.]

20. And? What happens when he'll fly away with it and refuses to pay?

I'll tell you what happens: N.o.t.h.i.n.g. and he knows it.

It should be clear to everyone by now... the pedofelon gets away with every single crime, fraud, rape, you name it, he did it, and look where he is right now. Anyone stopped him? Insurrection included...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. Should have given him gold telephone

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[republianmushroom]

11. Though gifts given to the President were gifts to the people.

Has this changed ? If not then when one leave office with them, gifts, that would be theft.

[Swede]

12. Is a lying theif not the president?

Or has it been just a nightmare?

[mopinko]

13. makes me wonder

how much he bribes the chinese.

[UTUSN]

14. K&R

[B.See]

21. Funny how this story broke after

I'd just posted here how I don't own any Apple products.

anyway...

Don't these grovelers realize that one day, somewhere, someplace, books will be written and movies made about the horrors of Trumpism, and America under Trump's rein? Those who brought it about and those who were COMPLICIT?

That they (like Hitler and Nazi Germany) will be reviled, rebuked and denounced - their names (and legacy) MUD in the annals of history?

Or do they figure the rest of the world will just rewrite and romanticize it all - spin it via some "Lost Cause" bullshit?