How to boycott Trump and the US administration and find alternatives

As consumers we have a choice about where we spend our money. People around the world have been taking action in response to Donald Trump and the current US administration’s activities, and many people are making an effort to avoid supporting or financing these activities through their personal spending.

But does ‘boycotting Trump' or 'boycotting America’ work? And where would someone start?

Here we address topics readers have asked us to cover, including how to boycott Trump, which companies to avoid, and alternatives to popular US brands. It also explores what makes boycotts helpful and effective. 

Promote and join anti Trump boycotts and campaigns 

Your individual boycott efforts are just one way to take action. By spreading the word, and campaigning in other ways, the impact can multiply. 

A lot of grassroots, consumer-led boycotts have sprung up in the last couple of years, and below we provide a list of campaigns targeting Trump, the USA and affiliated companies.

Campaigns and movements

• ICE Out of my Wallet - a targeted economic boycott of ICE-supporting companies, with online tools for consumers and community and business leaders “who refuse to let immigrant communities face state-sanctioned violence without the defense of their neighbors”
• ICEList - created by Crust News, this Ice List Wiki provides verified documentation of immigration enforcement activity in the United States, including a boycott list of companies that work with ICE
• Indivisible - US “nationwide movement of millions of people working to stop the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and to demand a real democracy”, organisers of the No Kings protests
• People vs Elon - a UK-based campaign which enables you to donate every time Elon Musk tweets, with proceeds supporting five social justice campaigns, "turning every tweet he sends into a weapon in the fight for social justice"
• QuitGPT - a global campaign to quit ChatGPT, one of Trump’s biggest tech funders 
• The Black Consumer Advisory - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) campaign against the rolling back of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) commitments with list of companies that have recommitted and those that have stopped DEI efforts

Brand/company checks

• Brandsnap app - take a picture to find out where a product is from and get recommendations for verified European alternatives
• Detrumpez-Vous / Detrumpify Yourself app - scan barcodes against open source databases to see whether a product is made by a company headquartered in the USA.

We looked at several other similar websites and apps but haven't listed ones that create the results using AI as they state the results can be inaccurate.

Impact calculator

If you want to see the financial impact of cancelling paid subscriptions to Amazon Prime, Audible, or ChatGPT for example, check out the Impact Calculator. You can type in what you’re boycotting/cancelling and it estimates the financial impact.

This has been created alongside the Resist and Unsubscribe campaign which shows a high-level financial sum of the potential loss in revenue from people cancelling subscriptions to a list of targeted products and services. Resist and Unsubscribe has two tiers of brands: ‘Ground zero’ which are “subscription-driven consumer tech companies … identified as having outsized influence over the national economy and [the US] president”, and ‘Blast zone’, which are “consumer-facing companies … identified as active enablers of ICE.”

7 companies to avoid if you want to boycott Trump

Boycotting all US companies may be overkill – not least because there are companies in the US that take an active stance against Trump and the current US administration.

A more practical option is to boycott Trump’s largest donors and companies that are publicly supporting his presidency, such as the following well-known consumer brands: Amazon, ChatGPT, Coca-Cola, Elliott Management (owner of Waterstones), Fifa, Musk (Tesla, X/Twitter, Grok), plus tech company Palantir. 

1) Amazon

A good first step is to boycott Amazon – a company which is deeply intertwined with the US government and has massive amounts of power and influence.

Here are some reasons to boycott Amazon:

• Amazon has directly endorsed Trump’s regulation rollbacks, prompting new waves of support for Trump’s presidency
• Amazon donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund
• Jeff Bezos went to Trump’s 2025 inauguration
• Amazon has spent millions on lobbying for tax cuts, surveillance contracts, and union-busting protections 
• Amazon reportedly paid $75 million for a documentary about Melania Trump 
• Amazon is named in the ICE boycott list particularly for its cloud services. Amazon workers in the USA are calling on the company to end its contracts with ICE.

Join our boycott Amazon campaign, and read our feature on Trump’s relationship with Amazon.

Not sure how to replace Amazon?

Luckily there are ethical alternatives to streaming services to replace Prime, bookshops, and tech retailers. 

We have guides to all of these in our Alternatives to Amazon series.

2) ChatGPT (OpenAI)

Here are some reasons to boycott ChatGPT:

• ChatGPT was founded by the biggest donor to Trump’s fundraising Political Action Committee (PAC). According to QuitGPT, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife gave $25m which combined with CEO Sam Altman’s $1m donation to Trump's 2025 Inaugural Fund, means the company gave the US president “26x more than any other major AI company”
• ICE uses a CV screening tool powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 to recruit new ICE agents.

Sign up to QuitGPT - a global campaign to quit ChatGPT, one of Trump’s biggest tech funders. 

Plus look out for our future guide on generative AI and large language models coming summer 2026. Sign up to our free weekly newsletter if you want to know when it's published.

3) Coca-Cola

Here are some reasons to boycott Coca-Cola:

• For his second inauguration, Coca-Cola presented Trump with “the first-ever Presidential Commemorative Inaugural Diet Coke bottle”. Three years earlier, Trump had publicly renounced his favourite drink because Coca-Cola spoke out against restrictive voting laws implemented by Republicans in the state of Georgia - although he was spotted hiding a bottle on his desk a few days later. 
• Coca-Cola also agreed to Trump’s request to make a Coca-Cola product that uses cane sugar for the US market, instead of its usual corn syrup. A Coca-Cola spokesperson said they “appreciate President Trump’s enthusiasm” for the product made at his behest.
• Coca-Cola had reportedly donated $250,000 to supporting Trump (through donations to either the presidential campaign or presidential inaugural committee).

Coca-Cola currently owns Costa coffee shop. Find alternatives in our guide to coffee shops.

4) Waterstones (Elliott Management)

Here are some reasons to boycott Waterstones:

• Elliot Management, Waterstones’ hedge fund owner (also known as a ‘vulture fund’), gave tens of millions of dollars to the 2024 election campaigns of Trump and his allies. 
• Now that Trump is in control of Venezuela, Elliott Management is predicted to make major profit off its recent acquisition of refiner Citgo, which was sold against the wishes of Venezuelan officials after the country defaulted on its bond payments.
• Venezuela has the largest reserves of crude oil in the world, and it looks like the US could ultimately become the major buyer of the country’s oil – making Paul Singer, head of Elliott Management, one of the largest beneficiaries.

Find alternatives to Waterstones in our bookshop guide.

5) Fifa

Here are some reasons to boycott Fifa:

• Fifa awarded Trump with the newly made-up Fifa Peace Prize when the Norwegian Nobel Committee wouldn’t give him one. 
• Fifa announced a strategic partnership with Trump’s “Board of Peace” that drew the attention of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over a possible breach of the Olympic oath, which requires members to act independently of political interests.
• There are fears that ICE will use the Fifa 2026 World Cup matches played in the US as an opportunity to conduct its notorious immigration raids, while players and support staff from Haiti and Iran are unsure if they can even attend because of travel bans placed on citizens from their countries.

6) Tesla, X/Twitter, Grok (and Elon Musk)

Here are some reasons to boycott companies affiliated with Elon Musk:

• Musk, the world richest man, was the largest political donor in the 2024 US election cycle with donations totalling $291m. All of this was for the Republican party and Trump. 
• Musk’s Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE) built the master database for Trump’s anti-immigration operations and fired tens of thousands of government staff.

7) Palantir

A special mention goes to Palantir.

• Palantir’s dystopian technology lies at the heart of many government systems that enable mass surveillance and militarisation in the US and the UK. 
• ICE agents use ELITE, a Palantir app, to identify and locate people for deportation with data extracted from medical and government records. 
• David Sacks, an influential Palantir investor, has been dubbed “Trump’s crypto and AI czar”.

Palantir does not have consumer products, so it’s difficult to boycott directly. But you can call on UK government agencies or US congress people to stop working with Palantir. Here are some relevant links:

• Stop Palantir in the NHS
• Stop Palantir taking over our public services (38 Degrees petition)
• Purge Palantir

Can you boycott all goods and services connected to Trump and ICE?

While we’ve named seven key companies, lots more are also supporting Trump, ICE and the US administration.

Take a look at some of the suggested campaigns and app checkers mentioned at the top of the article for wider lists.

De-Trumpify one area of your shopping at a time 

Instead of trying to do everything at once, you could start by looking at one type of purchase at a time. For example, food, clothing or tech. 

How big tech is complicit

Big tech has massively supported the second Trump administration, including through provision of services and technology. 

And some of the billionaires who run Big Tech are keen to be at the table with Trump. For example, Sundar Pichai CEO of Alphabet (Google and YouTube), Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg at Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Tim Cook (Apple) and Elon Musk from X/Twitter were all at Trump’s second inauguration. 

Trump has supported the tech industry with billions in government funding, and even given them the power to run new government departments such as Elon Musk, CEO of X/Twitter. 

Trump also invited Silicon Valley tech specialists to a dinner at the White House in September 2025, where attendees announced billions in US investments. The list included people such as Bill Gates (Microsoft), Sergey Brin the co-founder of Google, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) and Mark Zuckerberg. According to Fortune, a variety of investments were announced including for AI developments. 

Some of these massive tech monopolies such as Microsoft and Amazon are also heavily implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Big tech firms are also investing in AI, which has a number of ethical issues. But Trump has signed an executive order prohibiting states from passing laws regulating AI. 

Switching to more ethical tech brands

Switching to more ethical tech companies isn’t as easy as switching soft drinks or coffee shops.

But it can be done. 

We have guides to email providers, devices like mobile phones and laptops, and an article on web browsers. 

We are also working on a new magazine issue about big tech and AI which will recommend alternatives – sign up to our free email newsletter to get notified when it’s published.

Interestingly, it’s not only individuals trying to move away from US tech dependency. Early in 2026 the European Parliament voted to shift from tech dependence on the US to European companies and infrastructure.

Is boycotting Trump the right thing to do?

Some people don't think boycotts are effective, but we've seen throughout history that there are ways they can have impact. While financial impact is one way a boycott can have impact, it’s also just a way to voice your opposition, pressure corporations to change, and show solidarity with people affected. Read our feature ‘Are boycotts effective?’ to learn more.

For example, the boycott of South African goods was a central part of the anti-apartheid campaign which eventually ended in 1994. Boycotts have also led to improvements in workers’ conditions such as with Nike in the 1990s.

As the director of Beyond the Ballot said

"We cannot out-organize a fascist administration while simultaneously bankrolling the companies profiting from its cruelty."

Additional research by Marlous Veldt and Jasmine Owens.