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Maybe you were busy being open minded and etc.
But uh rest of Silicon Valley was pretty openly rooting for Trump to win 2024.
The emperor having no clothes is actually really useful when you can interact with the emperor. You want them then to be mallable like Tim Cook giving Trump a golden statue so they're immune to tariffs that their competitors have to pay.
I wonder if this whole stunt still ended up costing them more than a boring 2025 year, though. I'm sure they wanted the soft power of just speaking money with an openly corrupt president, but they never anticipated the hassle the president would be without all the safeguards in place during term 1.
I'm sure people like David Ellison made off like a bandit, being able to push mergers (or at least, try to push mergeers) that would have been stopped early under any other administration. I don't think Apple was doing any blatantly bold moves like that, though.