Mark Zuckerberg · Amazon · Donald Trump · Meta · Elon Musk · New York · Wired
Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts
Compiled by KHAO Editorial — aggregated from 1 source. See llms.txt for citation guidance.
◌ Single Source
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sought to ingratiate themselves with President Donald Trump after he won the 2024 election, and in return he mocked their efforts behind their backs, according to a new book by the New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
Key facts
- These episodes are detailed in the book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, a copy of which WIRED obtained ahead of its release on June 23
- When Zuckerberg arrived shortly after Thanksgiving 2024, the authors write, Trump played the national anthem over the speakers
- The episodes also show how Trump reveled in the genuflections of the titans of Big Tech—Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook also met with the incoming president—before relentlessly deriding
- Think of where these guys were in 2016,” Trump is quoted as saying of Zuckerberg and Bezos in a conversation with Elon Musk recounted in the book
Summary
Zuckerberg once texted Trump a photo of a letter written by one of his grade-school-age children, who wrote that they “looked forward to the golden age of America,” a slogan Trump had repeated at rallies during the presidential campaign. And over dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, Bezos denigrated The Washington Post to Trump and described the newspaper as one of his worst financial investments, months before he unsuccessfully sought a business favor from the president.