Donald Trump com Mark Zuckerberg
The owner of Meta had been criticized by Trump throughout the campaign. Now, the two moguls are making up, and even celebrated Thanksgiving together. The alms are great, but when there are no poor people, who is suspicious?
A has previously reported that Mark Zuckerberg is seeking a more active role in the new Trump administration, which could involve definition of new technological policies.
This is a huge turnaround as we go back four years when the company Meta banned Donald Trump from its platforms after , on January 6, 2021.
And, as , just a few months ago, Donald Trump threatened to send Mark Zuckerberg, the executive director of Meta, to prison “for life” if he interfered in the electionssomething I suspected the technology mogul of doing.
In his book “Save America,” Trump wrote that Zuckerberg “took his nice wife to dinners, was as nice as anyone could be, while always conspiring to install shameful Lock Boxes (security boxes) in a true conspiracy against the president“.
The mention of “Lock Boxes,” Fortune points out, appears to refer to a $420 million donation that Zuckerberg’s charity made to fund election infrastructure in 2020.
Trump even classified Mark Zuckerberg as “enemy of the people” — On that day, Meta’s stock market shares fell 4%.
When the election results gave victory to the Republican, also, contrary to the status of other technology super-rich, such as Tim Cook, the Apple, Sundar Pichai, the Google, and Andy Jassy, the Amazon, who supported Trump throughout the campaign.
The owner of the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp has, however, been consolidating its relationships. Still during the campaign, the multi-millionaire assumed that “it was hard” seeing Trump suffer one.
Later, when Trump was elected, the businessman congratulated him on his successful campaign to win the White House, on his Threads app: “Congratulations to President Trump on a decisive victory. We have great opportunities ahead of us as a country. I look forward to working with you and your administration.”
And it looks like they’re really going to work together. Fortune reports that the tycoons even reached celebrate Thanksgiving Day together (Thanksgiving Day), with a pre-holiday dinner.
Now, the goal will really donate 1 million dollars (almost one million euros) for Trump’s inaugural fundwhich he will use on the day of his inauguration, in January.
As he explains, the contribution and efforts to “court” the next administration are symbolic of the balancing act for tech CEOs, whose companies have often been the target of the ire of Trump and other Republicans and whose workforces tend to lean strongly to the left.
It remains to be seen what else the “unlikely friends” prepare for the future of the USA.
