Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time magazine, praised President-elect Trump for being named the magazine's Person of the Year.
“Congratulations to President @realDonaldTrump on being named the 2024 TIME Person of the Year,” Benioff wrote on Thursday. Social platform. “This is a time of great promise for our country.”
“We look forward to working together to advance America's success and prosperity for all. God bless the United States of America,” he continued.
Trump in special feature Time Inc. interviewgave a preview of the incoming administration, addressing topics including health care, spending cuts and amnesty for those who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“We're going to look at early J-6, probably the first nine minutes,” he told the outlet.
The president-elect has long described the January 6 rioters as “political prisoners” and pledged on the campaign trail to pardon them.
Trump's successful re-election bid has sparked interest from technology industry leaders, who appear to be reaching out to the president-elect.
Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is scheduled to meet with President Trump next week, and Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg has already met the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago mansion. We are having a meeting.
Amazon and Meta have donated $1 million to President Trump's inauguration next month.
Elon Musk, who also owns Tesla and SpaceX, plays a key role in the president-elect's inner circle. Last month, he was tapped to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), along with biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
