Corporate America capitulated wholesale to Trump’s politics including dismantling DEI

Evidence

In 2025, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Uber, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman all donated to Trump’s inauguration fund. At one inauguration event, Elon Musk threw a stiff-armed Nazi-style salute. Amazon paid Melania Trump a $40 million licensing fee for the right to make a documentary about her. When the Trump administration mobilized against DEI in its first week, Facebook and Google publicly announced that they had dismantled their own diversity-promotion programs, which had once been central to their corporate values and internal culture. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 836

Categorization

• SEED: The corporate DEI dismantling as the terminal embodiment of Marx’s thesis that institutions can no longer hold any cultural position is a usable essay angle — the collapse of values under status competition.