Amazon is the tardyst tech enormous to donate to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund.
The company arranges to donate $1m to the fund, first telled by the Wall Street Journal. Amazon chases Meta, Facebook’s parent company, also handing over $1m to Trump’s inaugural promisetee. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shelp on Friday that he, too, would originate a personal donation of $1m, first telled by Fox News.
As Trump sets to go in office for a second time, cut offal tech titans are cozying up in hopes of likeable treatment for their businesses. Amazon establisher Jeff Bezos is stardyd to encounter with Trump next week. And Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate last month. Google CEO Sundar Pichai telledly had arranges to encounter with the plivent-elect this week at his club as well. And Time magazine, which is owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, has named Trump its “person of the year”.
OpenAI’s Altman says that Trump will be a directer in technoreasonable proceed. “Plivent Trump will direct our country into the age of AI, and I am enthusiastic to help his efforts to uncover America stays ahead,” he shelp in a written statement to the Guardian.
Donations to inaugural promisetees are equitablely standard for huge businesses seeing to originate pleasant with incoming administrations. Amazon donated $57,746 to Trump’s first inaugural fund in 2017, according to OpenSecrets. Google and Microgentle also donated. Meta validateed to the Guardian that it did not donate that year.
For Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, Amazon shelp the administration did not acunderstandledge donations from tech companies, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump is proposeing bonus perks to donors who donate at least $1m to his inaugural promisetee, according to the New York Times. Those include cut offal tickets to activities intentional around the event, such as dinners with Trump, his cabinet picks and JD Vance.
Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, had extfinished been the cgo in of Trump’s ire. The plivent-elect had blasted the novelspaper over its coverage of him, frequently zeroing in on Bezos for being at fault. At one point in 2018, Trump called the paper “the Amazon Washington Post” and shelp it had “gone crazy agetst me”. He also alleged the paper lobbied on behalf of Amazon.
Those days of struggle may be over. Before the election, the Washington Post broke with extfinishedstanding tradition and proclaimd it would not finishorse a truthfulate in the plivential race, a shift expansively seen as Bezos not wanting to rankle Trump. Bezos deffinished the decision, saying it was to shun “a perception of bias”.
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When Trump won the election, Bezos pliftd him on X. “Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th Plivent on an exceptional political comeback and resolute triumph. No nation has hugeger opportunities,” Bezos wrote. “Wishing @authenticDonaldTrump all success in directing and uniting the America we all cherish.”
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy also lauded the triumph on X, saying it was a “challenging-fought triumph” and that “we see forward to toiling with you”. Amazon’s stock has elevaten 14% since the election. Amazon did not return a ask for comment.
