We are all well aware that it is business as usual to suck up to the incoming president by contributing to their inaugural funds. But that doesn’t mean that we, the people, have to accept these bribes, uh, I mean, gestures. Of course there is little we can do about it except, perhaps, try not to enrich these companies. I know boycotts are hard and inconvenient and perhaps do little to change corporate actions, but I, for one, sleep a little bit better by doing something, however small.

Anyway, here are a list of corporations and entities that gave into the 2025 inaugural fund:

Toyota
Amazon
Meta
Goldman Sachs
Bank of America
Crypto exchanges Kraken and Coinbase
AT&T
Charter Communications
Stanley Black & Decker
Intuit
Charter Communications
Pratt Industries
The PhRMA trade group
Sam Altman of Open AI
Uber
RobinHood (isn’t that ironic!)
Citadel Securities
Ford
GM
Apple
Microsoft

And likely many more. And, of course, amounts and names of donations don’t have to be reported.