Google and Microsoft reportedly became the latest Big Tech companies to donate to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund.
CNBC reported Thursday that Alphabet Inc.'s Google donated $1 million earlier in the week to Trump's inauguration fund.
Bloomberg reported Microsoft also was donating to the fund.
"Google is pleased to support the 2025 inauguration, with a livestream on YouTube and a direct link on our homepage. We're also donating to the inaugural committee," Karan Bhatia, Google's global head of government affairs and public policy, told the outlet in a statement.
Google and Microsoft join Meta, Amazon, Apple, and OpenAI among tech companies that have contributed to the inaugural campaign, according to CNBC. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta also announced $1 million donations. Axios reported Cook will personally donate $1 million.
A Google spokesperson told CNBC that the company has donated to previous inaugurals, and YouTube's livestream and inauguration link on the company's homepage are in line with previous inaugurations.
Uber Technologies and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi each donated $1 million the inaugural fund, a company spokesperson told Reuters.
Big Tech chiefs — including Cook, Altman, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon's Jeff Bezos — have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with Trump before he takes office in January.
"The first term, everybody was fighting me," Trump said in remarks at Mar-a-Lago. "In this term, everybody wants to be my friend."
Trump late last year indicated he would not rule out antitrust enforcement, something that directly could affect Google.
In August, a U.S. district judge ruled Google illegally has held a monopoly in search and text advertising. Arguments in a second antitrust case about Google's advertising business ended in November, and a verdict has not yet been announced.
"Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative sector and, as we all know, using its market power to crack down on the rights of so many Americans, as well as those of Little Tech!" Trump wrote Dec. 4 on Truth Social.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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