Donald Trump says he will meet Amazon founder Jeff Bezos next week as the president-elect continues to strengthen his relationship with the billionaire tech leader.
On Thursday, Trump was named Time magazine's 2024 Person of the Year and celebrated by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange amid cheers of “USA” from Wall Street moguls and business moguls. .
President Trump announced that Bezos will be inaugurated next week. Interview with CNBC After he rang the bell.
The president-elect met with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg two weeks ago. Mehta donates $1 million According to the Wall Street Journal, the money was donated to President Trump's inaugural fund. Google CEO Sundar Pichai is also reportedly scheduled to fly to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Trump on Thursday, the Information reported.
Trump also gave a nod to his close relationship with Elon Musk, the world's richest man, whose net worth topped a record $400 billion on Wednesday.
President Trump said of business leaders, “I want to get ideas from them.” “Look, we want them to do well.”
Mr. Bezos' space company, Blue Origin, is involved in numerous federal contracts with NASA.
Amazon, which is worth about $2.4 trillion, also has several government contracts. it is, $10 billion cloud computing deal After protesting the award originally given to Microsoft, it received an award from the National Security Agency.
Trump's relationship with Bezos' companies is a little more complicated. On October 31, near the end of the election campaign, President Trump told the Federal Election Commission that the Washington Post, which Bezos bought for $250 million in 2013, had criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for reporting critical of him. He filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing him of supporting the election campaign.
Mr. Bezos later blocked the paper from publishing a draft supporting Ms. Harris, a move that angered leftist staff and readers. More than 200,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions, and some editorial board members have resigned.
At the New York Times' Dealbook Summit earlier this month, Bezos said he was “very optimistic” about President Trump's second term.
“I'm very hopeful. He seems to have a lot of energy for deregulation. If I can help with that, I'm going to help him, too,” Bezos said.
Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and social media platform X and has a net worth of $433.8 billion, is one of the president-elect's closest allies and most outspoken and influential supporters, according to Forbes. .
He donated a whopping $250 million to campaigns and pro-Trump PACs, and rallied on Trump's behalf in battleground states, according to FEC filings. He also accompanied the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago mansion on election night.
His space company, SpaceX, is also a major federal government contractor. Mr. Musk was also chosen to head the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to reduce federal spending, an idea Mr. Musk championed during President Trump's campaign.
