Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, yielded to Trump. In the end, it could not matter.

The last time I was close to Tim Cook, I was shouting: “Queer children need you” at the top of my lungs. Tenure signs asking him to stop Sell ​​insecure phones to childrenour team in the heat initiative – a Non -profit work to keep children safe online – I tried to call someone who thought it was one of the last CEO of Big Tech with a heart. Being the first openly gay Man to direct a Fortune 500 company, he hoped he destroy the glass ceiling, allowing more LGBTQ+ people to imagine a similar path of excellence. Instead, he carved enough space for him to cross it, sealing him and joining the other technological oligarchs in his pristine detachment of the rest of society.

The great technological oligarchy was frontal and central At Trump’s inauguration, showing Americans who were about to direct our country. It was expected to see Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg play the teacher’s pet. But Cook donating $ 1 million For Trump’s inauguration it was a shock. Until then, I had relatively neutral to positive things to say about Cook’s leadership. I expected the The failure of the company to keep the children safe In its devices and platforms, it would end up being one of the rare black places in Cook’s impressive corporate history. One thing has become very clear: child security is no longer the only black point in Cook time in Apple. Tim Cook is damaging Apple’s reputation.

Trump tariffs have received a lot of time in the air. Since they affect the lives of working class Americans, I expected my dissident opinion about them to be demonstrated. After all, the idea of ​​more manufacturing in the US.

But technological giants such as Apple are also being beaten by tariffs, with the price of their actions that are seen thanks to Trump’s chaotic politics. It was refreshing to see that these attacks not only happened to our most vulnerable, but also our most powerful, including a giant corporation that has not done enough for Protect vulnerable populations, such as children and LGBTQ+ Americanof dangers online. Thanks to tariffs, the donation of $ 1 million cook to Trump was turning out to be a waste.

That was short duration. Suddenly, smartphones were now temporarily exempt from tariffs, which demonstrates once again that it is really so easy to buy favors from the leader of the “free” world. With the exemption, presented to the public as a way of protecting the accessibility of Americans to the devices, Cook could rest calm knowing that the price of their shares would recover and the pockets of their shareholders and their shareholders would continue to fill. Then, Trump was wrong again, calling the temporal exemption. Maybe the $ 1 million cook was not enough? Or maybe having a strong moral code and defending what (and who) is correct, is a good commercial sense at the end.

Last weekend, the Alma Mater de Cook, the University of Auburn, celebrated its famous student day. My team and I were on the floor, with A airship hilarious parody Cook with money bags and a phone that says “it benefits from children”, talking to people on the campus. We connected with an engineer who approached HASH coincidence technologya forward privacy technology to detect known material of child sexual abuse; A family that talks about the regret of giving your daughter a phone too early; and young people aware of their iPhone addiction.

I miss the feeling of being excited about Apple’s newest technology. We hope that Cook, thanks to Trump’s treatment, will have an epiphany and become the leader who knows what should be.

Lennon Torres is a public member of voices about prevention of child sexual abuse with the Oped project. She is a LGBTQ+ defender who grew in public view, gaining national recognition as a young dancer on television programs. With a deep passion for narration, defense and politics, Lennon now works to focus the experience of herself and others while preparing her professional career in child security online in Heat initiative. Lennon’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennon-orres-325b791b4/