From the dawn of his “long-shot” Presidential campaign, Donald Trump has lambasted, ridiculed, and belittled his way through a crowded field of otherwise well-qualified contenders, ultimately to emerge as the prospective GOP standard bearer.

This, perhaps most surprisingly, however, even despite the various controversies, legal battles, and bombastic utterances that — though they seemingly embroil him, week after week, also seem to have propelled his surge to the top of America’s most conservative ticket.

Yet, even still, not everyone is thrilled with Trump’s political-outsider-gone-insurgent particularly in light of those aforementioned controversies and opinions.

Some people and entities have even gone to the extreme of outwardly condemning Trump for his comments and policy proposals. Why, just take Apple, for instance: one of the world’s largest companies, by volume and one of several other, high-value corporations that have slowly but surely turned the cheek on the Trump-train.

As originally reported by Politico, Apple is merely the latest of several American companies that have distanced themselves from Trump — some going so far as to assure their company will not provide any financial resources to the GOP convention this year, solely in light of Trump’s racially-flared, misogynistic comments.

While most of Apple’s tech-giant rivals — including Facebook, Microsoft, and Google — have confirmed they still intend to support both the Democratic and Republican conventions, Apple is joining a list of many other, big-name corporations — such as Hewlett-Packard, Ford, Motorola, UPS, and JPMorgan — in officially denying (or significantly cutting back on) financial support for the Republican National Convention this July in Cleveland, Ohio.

Apple has also not clarified on whether it still plans to support the Democratic National Convention this year; however, even denying support to the Republican Party is a break from Apple’s tradition of donating generously to BOTH parties. Back in 2008, for instance, Apple donated a total of $140,000 in laptop computers to both the Democratic and Republican Conventions.

Of course, just in case you don’t recall, Trump and Apple have been on a slightly different page from the get-go. There was tension when Trump outwardly boasted about potentially forcing Apple to manufacture its iPhone handsets in the U.S.A.; and there was even more tension that arose when Apple CEO, Tim Cook, allegedly attended that secret meeting to plot Trump’s political demise…

In any case, there appears to be a growing amount of opposition AND support for Trump’s campaign, so it’s not exactly clear if or to what extent Apple’s lack of support will affect Trump’s campaign moving forward.

What are your thoughts about Apple denying financial support to the GOP because of Donald Trump? Let us know in the comments!