Meta, Pfizer and Google among companies aiming to keep in Donald Trump’s good books
Some big American companies in Ireland have already offered sops to the incoming US president, Donald Trump. Photograph: Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Images
Clegg, former leader of the centrist Liberal Democrats in England, will be replaced by someone much closer to the Trump way of thinking – former Republican White House deputy chief of staff Joel Kaplan. “It is not always the case that company leaders are betraying their values in order to cosy up to Trump – but that he is enabling them to do things they always wanted to do,” he says.
The former country manager of Amazon Web Service’s Irish division, Michael Beary, believes by bowing down to Trump some tech companies risk damaging critical relationships elsewhere.“They understand they have customers in more jurisdictions than in the US. They know that while they have to be mindful of the new expectations regarding prioritising investments at home, that they can’t afford to alienate customers and governments in other jurisdictions around the world.
“I’m hopeful when the pressure comes on, it will be more focused on jurisdictions that are antithetical to the US. That’s not Ireland.” The event, attended by hundreds of people at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, heard Mr Bourla say his company’s commitment to Ireland remained “steadfast”. “The Trump presidency is a wild card. I’m not sure that he’ll pressure companies to close existing foreign sites and move these to the USA. He might, however, urge companies to avoid growing foreign sites and concentrate new manufacturing in the USA. We’ll see”., this past week revealed it too had donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund – and that it would stream the ceremony live on YouTube.
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