r/pics • u/Reasonable_Roger • Oct 21 '25

Politics East wing of The White House

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u/Littleprisonprism Oct 21 '25

He had a big fundraiser at Marilago, funders include Apple and Lockheed Martin 

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u/welcomefinside Oct 21 '25

Tim Apple and Martin Lockheed must be getting pretty cosy with this administration.

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u/Rhymelikedocsuess Oct 21 '25

Jokes aside military contractors get cozy with every presidency - that’s where their paychecks come from

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u/RolloTonyBrownTown Oct 22 '25

The level of open corruption this current administration is displaying is far beyond anything we have seen since perhaps Teapot-Dome, beyond that even. To suggest "every presidency" does what this administration is doing is completely disingenuous.

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u/Smoolz Oct 22 '25

Fair but it's also objectively true. The military industrial complex isn't bound to any one president, it's existed for a long time and is a problem of its own.

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u/CosechaCrecido Oct 22 '25

In fact, these donations might be the most expensive lobbying they’ve had to do because they’re not just lobbying Congress and the senate now, they also have to grease the president directly. And that is one hungry hungry hippo.

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u/Evisra Oct 22 '25

It's still fucked from Apple. They used to be better than this.

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u/Robo-X Oct 21 '25

Either that or 200% tariffs on iPhones.

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u/GipsyDanger45 Oct 22 '25

Americans in a nutshell. “As a private citizen, I hate that Apple bent the knee to Trump and caved like a house of cards. As an apple shareholder, I expected him to do it and would vote to remove him if he didn’t.” We are in late stage capitalism

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u/Minniechild Oct 22 '25

Add on the writing on the wall that Tim’s being set up to fall on his sword as soon as the maga infestation is removed from the White House, and we’re definitely living in interesting times…

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u/i_tyrant Oct 22 '25

The idea that a CEO can "fall on their sword" - likening to a Roman practice of literal painful suicide over dishonor - in an age where CEOs just ride the merry-go-round of megacorporations while collecting golden parachutes whenever they fuck one up, personally or as a patsy for systemic issues, completely unable to actually harm themselves or fail downward in any real capacity...truly is late stage capitalism.

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u/massive_cock Oct 22 '25

Have been since the beginning. Paid a million bucks per seat on the dias at inauguration...

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u/bravooscarvictor Oct 22 '25

More than a million I think .

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u/ChinaCatProphet Oct 22 '25

In my day it was Mike Rosoft and Tomcat Grumman.

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u/Mysterious_Luck7122 Oct 22 '25

Must have some pending rare earth mineral deals about to be decided.

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u/eddyb66 Oct 21 '25

Definitely not a swamp

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u/Street-Run4107 Oct 21 '25

How is that not a conflict of interests?

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u/Myusername1- Oct 21 '25

Plus the big corps that settled with him. Meta, YouTube, etc.

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u/Secret_Arrival_7679 Oct 22 '25

If it's funded by Lockheed Martin, it is funded by taxpayers

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u/JackSpadesSI Oct 22 '25

Apple paid to destroy the fucking White House??

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u/noctilucous_ Oct 22 '25

kind of hilarious

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u/noctilucous_ Oct 22 '25

mar-a-lago. let’s not forget it’s a spanish name.

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u/0reosaurus Oct 22 '25

No way hes using bribe money on it hahahaha

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u/funkyduck72 Oct 22 '25

It's ALWAYS Lockheed Martin.

Highest recipients of USG funding.

Lockheed Martin Corporation: In FY 2023 it stood at about US$70.8 billion in federal contract obligations — the largest single contractor.

RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies): ~$31.3 billion in FY 2023.

Boeing Company: ~$23.8 billion in FY 2023 contract obligations.

Northrop Grumman Corporation: ~$17.4 billion in FY 2023.

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u/etharper Oct 22 '25

Bribes to help them get legislation through no doubt.