Donald Trump is meeting with Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook on Friday, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest in a string of meetings between the president-elect and tech executives.
Big Tech honchos have been lining up to swear fealty to His Orangeness lately. Even Zuckerberg, whom Trump threatened, dutifully performed his compulsory sycophant duties.
Incidentally, the merging of corporate and state interests is called corporatism and is a central tenet of classical Fascism. Plus ca change...
In social political theory, corporatism refers to organisation of society by designating the individual into corporate groups, whether by force or voluntarily, to represent common interests (usually economic policy) in the larger societal framework. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_group_(sociology)