Zuckerberg’s Meta Donates $1M To Trump’s Inaugural Fund

After spending years putting President-elect Donald Trump in the crosshairs, canceling his supporters, or kicking him off their platforms, the titans of Big Tech have realized that their approach needs to change. That undertaking is being led by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s parent company Meta, which, on Thursday, announced it would be donating $1 million to the inaugural fund to pay for Trump’s celebratory events on January 20th, 2025.

The move comes as little surprise to close observers of Zuckerberg, 40, who, months before Election Day, was hailing then-candidate Trump as a “badass” for surviving his first attempted assassination. His patriotic overtures extended to the annual tradition of wakeboarding with an American flag on the Fourth of July, but for every instance of virtue signaling, Zuckerberg has to contend with double the number of examples of hypocrisy. Still, Trump’s team certainly appears to welcome the Facebook founder’s largesse, and the Wall Street Journal noted the company did not make a similar donation to President Joe Biden for his 2021 inauguration.

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With Republicans poised to dominate Washington, D.C., next year, Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs have adopted a marked shift in tone about how they address President-elect Trump’s fitness for office. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, observed recently about the president-elect, “What I’ve seen so far is that he is calmer than he was the first time and more confident, more settled.” On X, he congratulated Trump on “an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory,” and said this month that he was “actually very optimistic this time around.” Amazon has also made a $1 million contribution to the Trump inaugural fund.

Zuckerberg and Meta executives have held meetings with Trump representatives at Mar-a-Lago recently over two days in November, according to the Journal, a sign that their once-frosty relationship is thawing. Sources say Susan Wiles, Trump’s incoming chief of staff, met with senior Meta policy executives Joel Kaplan and Kevin Martin and Republican strategist Brian Baker. Zuckerberg capped off the meetings by joining Trump for a one-on-one dinner. The Meta CEO and his advisors have met with Marco Rubio, the incoming secretary of state, as well as Trump advisors Stephen Miller, Vince Haley, and James Blair.

Oscillating postures taken by Zuckerberg over the years may leave questions about whether his latest gift is evidence of a permanent shift in favorability to Trump or simply a realization that the Republican is coming back into power and will hold tremendous sway over the tech industry. After providing personalized services to the Trump campaign and former digital director Brad Parscale in 2016, Facebook and Zuckerberg distanced themselves from his administration, especially following his 2017 immigration executive order, which Zuckerberg described publicly as concerning at the time. Following the January 6th, 2021, breach at the Capitol, Facebook briefly suspended Trump’s ability to post for several days. After being reinstated, Trump issued a scathing statement. “Next time I’m in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. It will be all business!”

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