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The Ford Motor Company is donating $1 million and a fleet of vehicles to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, as the company tries to lobby for relief from his proposed tariffs, Reuters reported Monday.

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Ford has supported fascists all the way back to Hitler. No surprise there.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Automotive companies and fascists, name a more iconic duo

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Well yeah, but now they've got a lot of competition in the "automotive fascist supporter" with Musk and Tesla stepping into the ring.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Now they have new competition with this generation's Henry Ford, Elon Musk. Who will kiss the most ass to get Trump's favor?

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] propofool@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, based on your link the $1M is a special tier, with telecom and healthcare being half of the list. Ford and GM were in the at least 100-200k range, a lot, but not a million. Had no idea Biden had gotten that much though, thank you for the link!

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago

It was actually $250k from Ford for the Biden inauguration, at least according to this reporting.

It is absolutely an outrage and I fully support bringing attention to how flagrant the corruption is but, sadly, it's not a one party problem.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 6 points 7 months ago

Campaign donations to biden and cash and car donations to Trump are another example of both these people being in completely different universes when it comes to corruption.

[–] Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol this article mentions the CEO of Ford as Chris Farley. We should really post better sources here

[–] CM400@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And he lives in a Transit down by the river!

[–] Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Shut up and take my up vote lol

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Hey look, bribes!

[–] DeadPand@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago

Corporate groveling

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 7 points 7 months ago

It's amazing to me that these people aren't embarrassed to lick the taint.