- Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the NYT reported.
- Trump and Zuckerberg, who didn’t endorse a candidate for president, have had a rocky relationship.
- Trump beforehand threatened to jail Zuckerberg if he was elected.
Mark Zuckerberg turned the newest tech CEO to fulfill with President-elect Donald Trump.
The New York Instances reported the Meta CEO met with Trump on the latter’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Wednesday, citing two sources briefed on the assembly.
Particulars concerning the assembly weren’t instantly clear. Meta and representatives for Trump didn’t reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider.
Zuckerberg didn’t endorse a candidate for president within the 2024 election.
He has had a contentious relationship with Trump, who earlier this 12 months threatened to jail the billionaire if he had been elected.
Zuckerberg praised how Trump responded to the assassination try in July.
“On a private notice, seeing Donald Trump stand up after getting shot within the face and pump his fist within the air with the American flag is without doubt one of the most badass issues I’ve ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg stated.
After Trump gained the election, Zuckerberg was among the many many tech and enterprise leaders who congratulated him.
“Congratulations to President Trump on a decisive victory. We have now nice alternatives forward of us as a rustic,” he wrote in a Threads publish the day after the election. “Wanting ahead to working with you and your administration.”
Trump and Zuckerberg met a minimum of twice through the president-elect’s first time period, together with in an unannounced White Home assembly and at a secret dinner with billionaire Peter Thiel in October 2019, in keeping with a number of studies.
In 2021, Trump steered he ought to have banned Fb whereas he was in workplace, however stated, “Zuckerberg stored calling me and coming to the White Home for dinner telling me how nice I used to be.”
Fb suspended the previous president’s account on the platform after the January 6, 2021, Capitol rebel. Meta reinstated Trump’s accounts in 2023.
Zuckerberg is not the one tech CEO to go to Mar-a-Lago within the wake of Trump’s win.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who performed a serious function in Trump’s marketing campaign, spent election evening with Trump on the Florida resort and has frolicked there since.
