By Murray Page
Below is a list I compiled of brands that donated greatly to the Trump campaign or other conservative candidates, PAC’s, or events. This information is very inaccessible online so I wanted to compile even a short list of some of these brands that I was able to find. I am by no means saying that everyone should stop supporting these brands immediately, I am just challenging everyone to think more about the brands they support and possibly do more research to see what are better options. One thing to possibly try is to set a period of time to not use a few of these brands at all and after that it will be easier to not use those brands as much.
- Jimmy Johns donated $3.1 million to Trump’s campaign or inaugural committee
- OpenAI donated $1 million to Trump’s campaign or inaugural committee
- Amazon donated $1 million to Trump’s campaign or inaugural committee
- Meta donated $1 million to Trump’s campaign or inaugural committee
- Uber donated $1 million to Trump’s campaign or inaugural committee
- AT&T donated $1 million to Trump’s campaign or inaugural committee
- Verizon donated $1 million to Trump’s campaign or inaugural committee
- Coca Cola donated $250,000 to Trump’s campaign or inaugural committee
- Airbnb donated $100,000 to Trump’s campaign or inaugural committee
- Google donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration
- Microsoft donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration
- Home Depot donated $16.2 million to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PACs in the last 6 years
- Lowes donated $1.5 million to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PACs
- Walmart donated $2 million to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PAC’s
- CVS donated $2.3 million to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PACs
- Target donated $700,000 to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PACs
- McDonald’s corp donated $597,560 to 2024 republican parties and candidates
- Ace Hardware donated $176,870 to 2024 republican parties and candidates
- JM Smucker Co. donated $181,730 to 2024 republican parties and candidates
- Wendy’s donated $106,210 to 2024 republican parties and candidates
- Publix Supermarkets donated $573,310 to 2024 republican parties and candidates
- Papa John’s Pizza donated $345,880 to 2024 republican parties and candidates
- Chipoltle deleted DEI language from its annual report
- Disney replaced references to “Diversity & Inclusion” with “Talent Strategy” and got rid of a website that highlighted diverse employees
- Paramount will eliminate goals to have a certain number of employees based on race, ethnicity and gender
- PBS closed it’s DEI office
- Pepsi will remove diversity hiring goals
- Victoria’s secret replaced “diversity” with “inclusion and belonging” on its site, and halted a goal to promote a certain percentage of Black workers