Amazon Set To Give $1 Million To Trump Inaugural Fund
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Meta announced a similar donation earlier in the week as tech leaders hope to reverse antagonistic relationships with the president-elect.
Amazon is set to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, matching a similar donation announced by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta this week.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the tech giant is the latest to woo the incoming Trump administration after a particularly fractious period with Silicon Valley. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is also set to meet with the president-elect in Florida sometime next week.
“Mark Zuckerberg’s been over to see me. I can tell you Elon [Musk] is another, and Jeff Bezos is coming up next week,” Trump told CNBC on Thursday. “I want to get ideas from them. … Look, we want them to do well, we want everybody, and we want great jobs, fantastic salaries.”
Amazon will also match the money with an in-kind donation valued at $1 million by streaming the inauguration on its Prime Video service, the Journal reported.
Bezos has made overtures to Trump throughout the year, praising his response to the June 13 assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as graceful and courageous. The billionaire also congratulated Trump after his election victory last month, saying the president-elect had waged an “extraordinary political comeback.”
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