Silicon Valley continues to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump, offering him compliments, a visit to Mar-a-Lago and a $1 million check.
of new york times report The past few weeks have seen an uptick in activity by Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies, making large donations to Donald Trump's inauguration and praising the president-elect. Tech giants like Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI's Sam Altman have each pledged to support President Trump's inaugural committee with seven-figure donations. It often involves a personal visit to Mar-a-Lago to meet with the president-elect.
Among the parade of technology leaders who hobnobbed with Trump were Google CEO Sundar Pichai and founder Sergey Brin, who dined with the president-elect last week. Apple CEO Tim Cook dined with President Trump last Friday, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was also scheduled to meet with Trump.
This increased involvement of the technology industry shows that President Trump is acutely aware of the realities of business in Washington. It's common for companies to try to curry favor with the incoming administration, but the enthusiasm of the tech movement stands out. The notoriously left-wing industry is now openly aligned with President Trump, with the founders of Meta and Amazon, previously criticized by the president-elect, each pledging $1 million to the president's inaugural fund. I am doing it.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who was a prominent Democratic donor during President Trump's first term, announced a $1 million personal donation Friday, saying: Stay in front. ”
This shift in direction is especially striking given the far-left politics of some of the executives who currently meet with or praise Trump. Marc Benioff, the far-leftist and owner of Time magazine and CEO of Salesforce, said Trump was a man of great promise for our country after Time magazine named him its Person of the Year. I posted a post to X to celebrate “The Time of.”
President Trump's early tech supporters have also expressed enthusiasm for the incoming administration. Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist who supported Mr. Trump during the election, revealed that he had spent about half of his time since Election Day working on the presidential transition, and attributed Mr. Trump's victory to a culture of “techno-optimist” ideology. It was positioned as a special moment.
Andreessen, along with Mar-a-Lago's Zynga founder Mark Pincus and former Meta executive David Marcus, will help the new administration secure talent and work on deregulation of industries such as AI and cryptocurrencies. I'm here.
While tensions between Trump and the tech industry have surfaced, with the president-elect nominating technology hawks to senior positions and disagreements over advisory boards, many crypto and A.I. executives have visited Mar-a-Lago and spoken with Trump and his aides. . Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse will donate $5 million in XRP, the company's digital currency, to President Trump's inaugural fund.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News, covering free speech and online censorship issues.
