{"id":446,"date":"2025-04-09T02:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/hippie-ocracy\/?page_id=446"},"modified":"2025-04-09T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:05:07","slug":"brands-for-college-students-to-stop-supporting-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/hippie-ocracy\/brands-for-college-students-to-stop-supporting-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Brands for College Students to Support Less in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-custom-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-anaktoria-font-family wp-elements-ff741a3f1d13c5d9091d89599385437f\">By Murray Page<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a list I compiled of brands that donated greatly to the Trump campaign or other conservative candidates, PAC\u2019s, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/american-businesses-supporting-donating-donald-trump-list-2027957\">Jimmy Johns donated $3.1 million to Trump&#8217;s campaign or inaugural committee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OpenAI donated $1 million to Trump&#8217;s campaign or inaugural committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amazon donated $1 million to Trump&#8217;s campaign or inaugural committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meta donated $1 million to Trump&#8217;s campaign or inaugural committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uber donated $1 million to Trump&#8217;s campaign or inaugural committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AT&amp;T donated $1 million to Trump&#8217;s campaign or inaugural committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verizon donated $1 million to Trump&#8217;s campaign or inaugural committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coca Cola donated $250,000 to Trump&#8217;s campaign or inaugural committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Airbnb donated $100,000 to Trump&#8217;s campaign or inaugural committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/trump-inaugural-companies-top-donations\">Google donated $1 million to Trump&#8217;s inauguration<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microsoft donated $1 million to Trump&#8217;s inauguration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecommons.earth\/blog\/commons-dirty-money-list-2025\">Home Depot donated $16.2 million to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PACs in the last 6 years<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lowes donated $1.5 million to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PACs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walmart donated $2 million to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PAC\u2019s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CVS donated $2.3 million to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PACs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Target donated $700,000 to climate-obstructive campaign candidates and PACs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/\">McDonald\u2019s corp donated $597,560 to 2024 republican parties and candidates<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ace Hardware donated $176,870 to 2024 republican parties and candidates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JM Smucker Co. donated $181,730 to 2024 republican parties and candidates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wendy&#8217;s donated $106,210 to 2024 republican parties and candidates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Publix Supermarkets donated $573,310 to 2024 republican parties and candidates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Papa John&#8217;s Pizza donated $345,880 to 2024 republican parties and candidates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/entertainment\/life\/2025\/03\/13\/30-companies-that-removed-dei-programs-trump\/82268705007\/\">Chipoltle deleted DEI language from its annual report<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disney replaced references to &#8220;Diversity &amp; Inclusion&#8221; with &#8220;Talent Strategy&#8221; and got rid of a website that highlighted diverse employees<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paramount will eliminate goals to have a certain number of employees based on race, ethnicity and gender<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PBS closed it\u2019s DEI office<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pepsi will remove diversity hiring goals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Victoria\u2019s secret replaced \u201cdiversity\u201d with \u201cinclusion and belonging\u201d on its site, and halted a goal to promote a certain percentage of Black workers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Murray Page Below is a list I compiled of brands that donated greatly to the Trump campaign or other conservative candidates, PAC\u2019s, or events. 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