Google has donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural 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,” Google’s global head of government affairs and public policy, Karan Bhatia, told The New York Post.
After Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election, Google CEO Sundar Pichai congratulated him on his “decisive victory.”
“We are in a golden age of American innovation and are committed to working with his administration to help bring the benefits to everyone,” he said.
According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings reviewed by Newsweek, the million-dollar donation is more than triple the $285,000 given to Trump’s previous inauguration fund.
Numerous other companies have donated to Trump’s inaugural fund, including Apple, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Microsoft also recently announced that it donated $1 million to the inaugural fund. A company spokesperson confirmed the move to Bloomberg.
Several major automakers, including General Motors, Ford, and Toyota, promised $1 million to the fund.
The shift among tech companies is similarly reflected within their platform policies, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that it is ending its fact-checking program in the United States and will implement community notes similar to Elon Musk’s X.
“We’re gonna get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said in a video. “More specifically, here’s what we’re going to do. First, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”
He explained that fact-checkers have become “too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the U.S.”
