Google, Boeing join growing list of companies donating to Trump's inauguration
Google and Boeing have each given $1 million to President-elect Trump’s inaugural committee, joining a growing list of major corporations supporting the Jan. 20 event.
“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, said in an emailed statement.
Google has donated previously to other presidential inaugural funds. The tech giant will assist users in watching the inauguration by promoting links on its homepage and YouTube, a company spokesperson said.
Boeing also confirmed to The Hill it made a $1 million donation to the inauguration.
“We are pleased to continue Boeing's bipartisan tradition of supporting U.S. Presidential Inaugural Committees,” Boeing’s spokesperson said in a statement emailed Thursday to The Hill.
The airplane behemoth has given $1 million to each of the past three presidential inaugural committees, according to the company.
Also on Thursday, Chevron confirmed a donation, though it did not reveal how much.
“Chevron has a long tradition of celebrating democracy by supporting the inaugural committees of both parties. We are proud to be doing so again this year," said Bill Turenne, Chevron's manager of global media relations.
They join a host of other corporations, including Meta, Amazon and Uber, that have contributed to Trump’s inaugural fund ahead of his inauguration on Jan. 20. Toyota and Ford have also contributed $1 million each to the fund.
Besides financially contributing to the fund, several top executives, including Google’s Sundar Pichai and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, have met with the incoming commander in chief at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida residence.
The meetings coupled with contributions point to a change among some corporations looking to forge a stronger relationship with the president-elect as he is set to take the Oval Office later this month.
Sarah Fortinsky contributed.
Updated at 6:29 p.m.