This is Gross – Companies Donating for that White House Ballroom

The East Wing of the White House is being demolished (without the proper approvals) by the criminal in chief to make way for a $250 million (and counting) ballroom. It should also be noted that a command bunker is located underneath this area (it will probably be fortified further if one is keeping track of past history since the U.S. is on par with Nazi Germany in the 1930’s now). There is also a bit of symbolism with this whole thing where the criminals running the U.S. government are taking a “wrecking ball” to one of the main properties of democracy in Washington D.C.

The list of private individuals and companies that have donated to this was also made public. There is only one company remaining on that list which I am currently invested in, and that is Apple; I have now lost ALL respect for Tim Cook because he has morally surrendered to this criminal enterprise in the White House. I mentioned it before (that I know that some of this is to make these companies feel they are less of a target). However, this is a core part of the problem with companies, educational institutions, and individuals caving to an autocratic movement like this. They’ve set the completely wrong example by selling out what exists of the U.S. as a democratic republic.

Apple caving in even more (Cook personally donating to the inauguration plus frequent meetings with the felon in the White House, pulling apps from the app store due to DOJ pressure, and now this), is to the point of being gross and disgusting (as someone who worked there in the past). There is a point where playing this type of game with a convicted felon and criminal enterprise, just lacks any moral basis.

As for AAPL, I’ve already written about my plans for divesting out of the stock market in general especially throughout 2026 (where I only plan to end up holding on to the shares that were from 1997-2002ish). Thus I already had a planned exit strategy which is now just further fueled by this latest move. But taking off that investor cap, I am pretty much done with being the type of customer (and in a much smaller capacity, recommender) that I’ve been, and definitely won’t go out of my way to recommend them as a company anymore.