Coca-Cola condemned Trump and his supporters following the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. At the time, the company said the riots were "an offense to the ideals of American democracy."
President-elect Trump was awarded the “first ever Presidential Commemorative Inaugural” Diet Coke by Coca-Cola’s CEO, according to his longtime aide Margo Martin. “Tonight, President Trump
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey on Tuesday hand-delivered Trump a personalized Diet Coke bottle honoring his upcoming inauguration—a huge aboutface from a company that was condemning the “unlawful and violent events” of January 6 just four years ago.
Donald Trump has received an honor indicative of his particular love for soda with his inauguration less than a week away: his own inaugural Diet Coke bottle.
The gift comes after Coca-Cola slammed the president-elect and his supporters following the Jan. 6 insurrection
Coca-Cola is facing criticism after its CEO James Quincey presented President-elect Donald Trump with a commemorative bottle of Diet Coke ahead of his inauguration.
Although the CEO of Coca-Cola has neither publicly expressed his ... Quincey’s winking nod to Trump’s famous love of Diet Coke is not just a gesture to Trump that all’s forgiven, but a ...
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey awarded President-elect Donald Trump with "the first ever Presidential Commemorative" bottle of Diet Coke.
In 1942, the Nazi apparatchik Otto Dietrich sniffed, “America never contributed anything to world civilization but chewing gum and Coca-Cola.”
A number of companies have been taking steps to align themselves with the incoming Trump administration, such as Meta, Amazon, Walmart, and McDonald’s
Critics on social media called out the “ass-licking” of Trump by corporations ahead of his return to the Oval Office. Multiple other bosses ― from Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos ― have been accused of bending the knee to Trump in recent weeks.