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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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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours 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?

[–] kautau 20 points 1 day ago

Automotive companies and fascists, name a more iconic duo

[–] Sludgehammer 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] Twentytwodividedby7 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] CM400 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And he lives in a Transit down by the river!

[–] Twentytwodividedby7 3 points 21 hours ago

Shut up and take my up vote lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] propofool 12 points 1 day 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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Cris_Color 8 points 1 day ago

Hey look, bribes!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Corporate groveling