Boeing, Google Donate $1 Million Each for Trump’s Inauguration

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Google stated that it would livestream President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on YouTube.

Boeing and Google will each donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, joining the list of U.S. companies contributing funds for the Jan. 20 ceremony.

The two companies confirmed their donations on Thursday in statements to news outlets. Google stated that it would livestream the inauguration on YouTube and provide a direct link on its homepage.

The tech giant said it had previously hosted livestreams of other presidential inaugural ceremonies and made contributions to those events.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai congratulated Trump after his election win in November 2024.

“Congratulations to President [Donald Trump] on his decisive victory,” Pichai said in a Nov. 6, 2024, post on social media. “We are in a golden age of American innovation and are committed to working with his administration to help bring the benefits to everyone.”

Boeing stated that its donation amount is consistent with its previous contributions to the past three presidential inaugurations, including Trump’s inauguration in 2017 during his first presidential term.

The planemaker has been under enhanced oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) following the Jan. 5, 2024, incident in which a door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 in mid-air.

In January 2020, Trump called Boeing “a big disappointment” in an interview with CNBC after the planemaker delayed the return of the 737 Max fleet to service worldwide following two fatal crashes—one involving Indonesia’s Lion Air flight in 2018 and the other involving an Ethiopian Airlines flight in 2019—that together left 349 people dead.

Google and Boeing joined a list of major corporations supporting Trump’s inauguration, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Uber, and Adobe, all of which have donated $1 million each to the president-elect’s inauguration.

American Airlines has also pledged to donate $1 million to the president-elect’s inaugural committee. Oil producer Chevron said on Thursday that it would make a contribution but did not specify the amount.

Major automakers, including Ford, Toyota, and General Motors, have each pledged to donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural funds.

Trump’s inaugural committee has raised more than $170 million, surpassing outgoing President Joe Biden’s inauguration, which raised about $62 million.

The Epoch Times reached out to Google and Boeing for further comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

Amazon, Meta Improving Relations With Trump

Amazon announced last month that it would donate $1 million to the inauguration, marking a turning point in the company’s previously strained relationship with Trump. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was spotted dining with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 19, 2024.

Trump has previously criticized The Washington Post, owned by Bezos, over its political coverage. Bezos, in turn, publicly condemned some of Trump’s rhetoric and accused him of bias in a 2019 lawsuit over a $10 billion Pentagon contract.

Bezos has recently expressed optimism about Trump’s second term and endorsed proposed regulatory reforms while at a business summit last month.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has also donated $1 million to the president-elect’s inauguration. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in November 2024 in an apparent attempt to improve relations.

In 2021, Trump was suspended from Facebook and Instagram for what Meta described as his “praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6.” His accounts were restored in 2023.

Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo) — Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo

In an interview with Bloomberg last year, Zuckerberg praised Trump’s fist pump reaction after being grazed by a bullet during his July 2024 Pennsylvania rally. Zuckerberg said it was “one of the most bad-ass things” he had ever seen in his life.

Trump later expressed his appreciation to Zuckerberg on a podcast for reaching out to him following the assassination attempt.

During a Dec. 16, 2024, press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Trump talked about how much easier the current transition has been than after his first election.

“The first time, everybody was fighting me,” Trump said. “This time, everyone wants to be my friend.”

Caden Pearson and Samantha Flom contributed to this report.