Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Trump on Wednesday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where he’s been hosting political meetings, according to Stephen Miller, the incoming deputy chief of policy.
“Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understand that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity, and so business leaders, CEOs everywhere, they want to be an element, a supporter, a booster of making our economy prosperous, delivering for American workers and making sure that America is the most powerful, wealthiest, freest nation on the face of the earth,” Miller said during a Fox News appearance.
Zuckerberg is the latest tech CEO to try to mend his relationship with the former president after past tensions. In 2021, Facebook, a subset of the Meta social platforms, banned the former president for two years, labeling him a “risk to public safety” after his posts questioned the 2020 election results, ultimately influencing the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists.
Trump called the ban an “insult.”
“They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win,” he fumed. “Our Country can’t take this abuse anymore!”
Three years later, Zuckerberg is adamantly working to get in Trump’s good graces as the Republican returns to the White House with a strict agenda that may include banning mainstream media outlets and garnering more users on his own social platform, Truth Social, where he often announces world news.
