@Joe W Re: A HUNDRED AND FORTY QUID!?
If you work for an international company and you are at a certain grade of employee, you are required by law to take an anti-corruption / bribery course.
There are certain amounts which are allowable, however you need to make an annual disclosure of what you spent.
For Tim Cook to give Trump a Mac, is one thing. To give him the 'first Mac' built in Texas, is another and of course he had to declare it and probably ran it past legal and the bean counters...
Some companies like Walmart limit what sort of gifts their employees can take. Meaning if you take an employee out to a decent lunch (Think proper restaurant) they would have to declare the cost of the mean over a certain amount.
W.R.T to giving a gift like the Mac... there are some rules which govern what Trump can do with it after its been accepted.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
