Meta Makes $1 Million Dollar Donation To Donald Trump's Inaugural Fund

Meta is moving to build a bully narration pinch President-elect Donald Trump and made a sizable assistance to beryllium it.

Meta confirmed to nan Wall Street Journal connected Wednesday that it has donated $1 cardinal to Trump's inaugural fund. The assistance is caller crushed for Meta; according to Bloomberg, nan institution did not make a akin assistance earlier President Joe Biden's inauguration successful 2021 aliases for Trump's successful 2017.

The inauguration money is utilized for expenses that originate erstwhile a caller president assumes office. Corporations are typically nan largest donors to these funds, pinch Federal Election Commission records showing that Microsoft gave $500,000 each to Trump successful 2017 and Biden successful 2021, while Google donated $285,000 each.

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Meta's million-dollar assistance arrives 2 weeks aft Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined pinch Trump astatine Trump's Mar-a-Lago 9 successful Palm Beach, Florida.

According to nan Wall Street Journal, earlier nan dinner, Zuckerberg demonstrated what nan Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses could do earlier giving nan President-elect a brace arsenic a gift. The $299 glasses tin reply calls, return pictures, and nonstop texts; Zuckerberg said astatine an nett telephone successful July that they personification spell a "bigger deed sooner than we expected."

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Reports emerged past week that Zuckerberg is consenting successful helping style tech policies pinch nan Trump administration. Meta's President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg told The Verge that Zuckerberg is consenting successful taking an progressive information successful debates astir maintaining America's tech leadership.

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Despite nan caller repast and donation, nan narration betwixt Trump and Zuckerberg has been contentious. Meta suspended Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts successful 2021 pursuing what nan institution stated was "his praise for group engaged successful portion astatine nan Capitol connected January 6, 2021."

Meta reinstated his accounts successful 2023, but nan narration betwixt Trump and Zuckerberg had grown overmuch tense. Trump accused Zuckerberg of cheating connected nan elections and wrote successful a February 2023 Truth Social post: "Why isn't he being prosecuted?"

In different Truth Social position from July, Trump called retired "Zuckerbucks," his nickname for Zuckerberg, and cautioned him to "be careful!"

In his book "Save America," which came retired connected September 3, Trump wrote if Zuckerberg did "anything illegal" successful nan 2024 statesmanlike election, he would spell to prison.

In caller months, nan narration betwixt nan 2 has been overmuch cordial pinch Zuckerberg calling Trump successful August to apologize complete an incorrectly branded image and congratulating Trump connected his triumph successful November.

Zuckerberg is presently nan 3rd richest personification successful nan world pinch a nett worthy of $224 billion, per nan Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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