Tech C.E.O.s Courted Trump Before the Election NYT | Top Stories By: Tripp Mickle and David McCabe 7 November 2024 at 18:05 The executives of tech’s biggest companies largely ignored Donald Trump before the 2016 election. This time around, they’re far more friendly. © Pete Marovich for The New York TimesPresident Donald J. Trump and Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, toured a manufacturing center for Apple products in Austin, Texas, in 2019.