--- title: Angry Oracle Employees Petition Ellison to Cancel Trump Fundraiser description: Oracle employees have allegedly circulated a petition demanding founder Larry Ellison cancel his fundraiser for President Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/5784848/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump/ author: Madeleine Carlisle article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-02-15T20:37:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:45:48.206Z article:section: Politics og:title: Over 1,000 Alleged Oracle Employees Have Signed a Petition Demanding Founder Larry Ellison Cancel a Trump Fundraiser og:description: Ellison is the fifth richest person in the U.S. og:url: https://time.com/5784848/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt053a564bd2d5fd5b/698a0a47929fadc121bf5b31/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: oracle petition larry ellison trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Over 1,000 Alleged Oracle Employees Have Signed a Petition Demanding Founder Larry Ellison Cancel a Trump Fundraiser twitter:description: Ellison is the fifth richest person in the U.S. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt053a564bd2d5fd5b/698a0a47929fadc121bf5b31/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Over 1,000 Alleged Oracle Employees Have Signed a Petition Demanding Founder Larry Ellison Cancel a Trump Fundraiser > Sponsored content. 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President Trump calls climate activists "prophets of doom" at the World Economic Forum in Davos._  by [Madeleine Carlisle](https://time.com/author/madeleine-carlisle/)  ## Madeleine Carlisle Feb 15, 2020 8:37 PM UTC  Larry Ellison attends the Rebels With A Cause Gala 2019 at Lawrence J Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC on Oct. 24, 2019 in Los Angeles. Larry Ellison attends the Rebels With A Cause Gala 2019 at Lawrence J Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC on Oct. 24, 2019 in Los Angeles. Phillip Faraone—Getty Images  by [Madeleine Carlisle](https://time.com/author/madeleine-carlisle/)  ## Madeleine Carlisle Feb 15, 2020 8:37 PM UTC Oracle founder and CTO [Larry Ellison](https://time.com/3399389/larry-ellison-oracle/)‘s decision to throw a fundraiser for [President Donald Trump](https://time.com/donald-trump-after-hours/) has apparently angered some of his employees. So much so that they have allegedly set up a Change.org petition demanding he cancel the Feb. 19 event and have asked other Oracle employees to sign. The [petition](https://www.change.org/p/larry-ellison-uphold-company-ethics?recruiter=971616654&utm%5Fsource=share%5Fpetition&utm%5Fmedium=twitter&utm%5Fcampaign=psf%5Fcombo%5Fshare%5Fabi&utm%5Fterm=52f18e26fcf14908b8a3405ea7b91d7a&recruited%5Fby%5Fid=17f677c0-8ea4-11e9-9fdb-51a44807550d), first [reported](https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21136577/larry-ellison-fundraiser-donald-trump-oracle-employees) by Vox, launched on Friday and so far has over 1,000 signatures from alleged employees. (The computer technology company employs around [136,000 people](https://www.oracle.com/corporate/corporate-facts.html) worldwide). It asks company leadership to “\[stand\] up against Ellison’s damaging association with the Trump campaign” and says his support of Trump “does not affirm Oracle’s core values of diversity, inclusiveness and ethical business conduct.” “As Oracle employees, we must hold our leaders accountable for upholding their ethical responsibilities,” the petition, which anyone can sign, continues. “Ellison’s financial support of Donald Trump endangers the well-being of women, immigrants, communities of color, the environment, LGBTQ and trans communities, disabled people and workers everywhere.” Oracle did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment. Ellison is worth over $69 billion and is the fifth richest person in the U.S. [according to Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/#1056ab3e24c2). [_The Desert Sun_ reports](https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/12/trump-visit-larry-ellisons-rancho-mirage-estate-fundraising-event/4743576002/) that at Ellison’s upcoming fundraiser, for $100,000, guests can join a golf outing and take a photograph with the President. For $250,000, guests can also reportedly join a round table discussion. “It signals what I and many others have always feared,” an Oracle employee reportedly [told Vox](https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21136577/larry-ellison-fundraiser-donald-trump-oracle-employees). “Culturally, Oracle is the type of place where you’ll work with many lovely people who you share common ideals with, but those ideals have to be left at the door in service of the company.” Vox reports that five current and one former employee described “bubbling frustration at Oracle on Thursday.” Some employees started a Slack channel and added the link to the petition to their email signature, [according to Vox](https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21136577/larry-ellison-fundraiser-donald-trump-oracle-employees). The petition exhibits how the President has remained deeply unpopular in Silicon Valley, although he has continued to quietly fundraise from a select group of wealthy donors. The Wall Street _Journal_ [reports](https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-donors-continue-to-elude-trump-11568725477?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1) that Trump held a fundraiser in Palo Alto back in September; tickets reportedly cost up to $100,000 per couple and was held at a hidden location. Oracle CEO Safra Catz also [served on Trump’s transition team,](https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/15/oracle-ceo-safra-catz-joins-trump-transition-team/) a decision that led Oracle senior executive George Polisner [to resign](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/21/oracle-executive-resigns-ceo-safra-catz-donald-trump) in 2016. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5784848/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5784848/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump/"},"headline":"Over 1,000 Alleged Oracle Employees Have Signed a Petition Demanding Founder Larry Ellison Cancel a Trump Fundraiser","datePublished":"2020-02-15T20:37:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:45:48.206Z","description":"Ellison is the fifth richest person in the U.S.","url":"https://time.com/5784848/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump/","keywords":["2020 Election","Tech","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt053a564bd2d5fd5b/698a0a47929fadc121bf5b31/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Madeleine Carlisle","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/madeleine-carlisle/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt053a564bd2d5fd5b/698a0a47929fadc121bf5b31/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"oracle petition larry ellison trump","caption":"oracle petition larry ellison trump","creditText":"Phillip Faraone—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2020-election/","name":"2020 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5784848/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump/","name":"Over 1,000 Alleged Oracle Employees Have Signed a Petition Demanding Founder Larry Ellison Cancel a Trump Fundraiser"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trumps Calls Climate Activists 'Prophets of Doom'","description":"President Trump calls climate activists \"prophets of doom\" at the World Economic Forum in Davos.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/wMDYJ6qu/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2020-01-21T15:42:41.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wMDYJ6qu.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5784848/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump/","duration":"PT28S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5784848/oracle-petition-larry-ellison-trump/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```