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    "Tim Cook and Sam Altman refuse to condemn Trump admin after Alex Pretti’s killing",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nApple CEO Tim Cook has spent the past year cozying up to President Donald Trump. He donated $1 million to the president’s second inauguration, delivered a gold plaque to the Oval Office, and even attended a private screening of the widely panned documentary __Melania__.\n\nBut in an interview this week, the gay tech entrepreneur characterized himself as “not political.”\n\n“I interact on policy, not politics. I'm not a political person on either side,” Cook told Good Morning America ____ co-anchor Michael Strahan on Tuesday. “I’m kind of straight down the middle.”\n\nCook appeared on the show to discuss the approaching 50th anniversary of Apple, plus his views on philanthropy, artificial intelligence, data privacy, and global affairs.\n\n**Related** : Apple CEO Tim Cook pledges $100 billion for Trump manufacturing program\n\n**Related** : Apple CEO Tim Cook bends the knee to Donald Trump with a golden Oval Office gift & $100 billion pledge\n\n**Related** : Tim Cook chooses riches over justice and coddles the evil ways of dictator Trump\n\nDespite Cook’s claims of impartiality around U.S. politics, he expressed gratitude “that the president and the administration is accessible to talk about policy.”\n\nCook has not expressed an intent to use that line of communication to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community amid a nationwide crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights, demanded by the president himself.\n\nRising anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment has made it harder for LGBTQ+ people to enter tech and entrepreneurship more generally, __The Advocate__ reported in its latest cover story.\n\nNearly four in ten LGBTQ+ workers in Silicon Valley have witnessed homophobic behavior at work, a 2019 survey found. Major tech companies have faced hundreds of allegations of gender-based wrongdoing, according to a 2025 study from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.\n\n**Related** : Apple CEO Tim Cook basks in the stench of Donald Trump |\n\n**Related** :  Apple CEO Tim Cook joins other major business leaders with $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration\n\n**Related** : Tim Cook and Sam Altman refuse to condemn Trump admin after Alex Pretti’s killing\n\nIssues like these have not yet met Cook’s threshold for policy engagement; instead, they seemingly remain within the political chatter he told __Good Morning America__ he seeks to avoid. Apple representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nCook said that Apple is keeping an eye on court decisions around Trump’s tariffs and planning its next steps accordingly. In the meantime, he said the company is renewing its investment in domestic manufacturing.\n\n“We’re putting $600 billion into the U.S. over the next four years,” Cook said. “We're going to make over 20 billion semiconductors in the U.S., and again, this is not only for the U.S. market-sold iPhones, it’s for worldwide iPhones.”\n\n __This article was written as part of the Future of Queer Media fellowship program at The Advocate, which is underwritten by a generous gift from__ Morrison Media Group __. The program helps support the next generation of LGBTQ+ journalists.__",
  "title": "Apple CEO Tim Cook swears he is ‘not a political person’"
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