The first presidential administration of Donald Trump, from January 2017 to January 2021.
Actions from other entities targeting Trump Administration (2017-2021)
Wales publicly called Trump a 'lunatic' in response to his threats to regulate social media companies, stating 'Worst case scenario is that platforms don't have courage to tell Trump to go away, that they begin to adapt policies to his whims because he is a lunatic.'
In 2018, Chuck Robbins, who chairs the Business Roundtable's immigration committee, publicly criticized Trump's family separation policy at the border. He stated it was 'a moral issue for our country' and 'doesn't represent the values of the entire company.'
In 2018, Brian Chesky and co-founders Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk issued joint statement criticizing Trump's family separation policy at the border: 'Ripping children from the arms of their parents is heartless, cruel, immoral and counter to the American values of belonging'.
In now-deleted Facebook posts from 2018 and before the 2024 election, Dario Amodei compared Trump to a 'feudal warlord', called him a 'serious and legitimate threat to the rule of law', said Trump 'appoints idiots to important government positions', and urged Americans to 'vote against this clown'.
At a White House Oval Office ceremony, CEO Hock Tan and President Trump jointly announced that Broadcom would move its headquarters from Singapore to the United States. Trump lauded Broadcom as 'one of the really great, great companies.' Tan said 'America is once again the best place to lead a business with a global footprint.'
Kalanick joined President Trump's business advisory council in December 2016, then resigned in February 2017 following a #DeleteUber campaign and employee backlash related to Trump's immigration ban. Over 200,000 users reportedly deleted their Uber accounts.
On January 28, 2017, Sergey Brin joined protesters at San Francisco International Airport opposing President Trump's Executive Order 13769 banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. When asked why he was there, Brin said 'I'm here because I'm a refugee' - his family emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1979 to escape Jewish persecution. Two days later, he spoke at a Google employee rally of 2,000+ workers, saying: 'I came here to the US at age six with my family from the Soviet Union... this country was brave and welcoming.'
Palmer Luckey donated $100,000 to Donald Trump's 2017 Presidential Inaugural Committee through a shell company called Wings of Time LLC, while still employed at Facebook. The donation was received on January 4, 2017, and was reported by Mother Jones. Luckey used the shell company rather than donating in his own name.
Oracle CEO Safra Catz joined Trump's presidential transition team in December 2016, stating 'we are with him and are here to help in any way we can.' She was considered for cabinet positions including Director of National Intelligence. A senior Oracle employee resigned in protest.
In October 2016, Sam Altman published a blog post warning that Trump represented 'an unprecedented threat to America' and compared his tactics to Hitler in 1930s Germany, writing 'To anyone familiar with the history of Germany in the 1930s, it's chilling to watch Trump in action... Hitler taught us about the Big Lie.' He urged readers to vote for Hillary Clinton.