{"id":3002,"date":"2024-11-28T02:18:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T02:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zuckerberg-meets-with-trump-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T02:18:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T02:18:41","slug":"zuckerberg-meets-with-trump-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zuckerberg-meets-with-trump-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg meets with Trump in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerbeg made the trek to Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, where he met with President-elect Donald Trump and members of his soon-to-be second administration.<\/p>\n

The Meta CEO was seen with a large security and staff presence while at Trump\u2019s private Palm Beach club in the evening, a person with direct knowledge told Blue Light News.<\/p>\n

On Fox News, Trump deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller confirmed POLITICO\u2019s reporting<\/a> that Zuckerberg was there, saying he \u201chas made it very clear about his desire to be a supporter of and a participant in this change that we\u2019re seeing all around America, all around the world, this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Meta also confirmed the meeting, saying in a statement that Zuckerberg was \u201cgrateful\u201d for an invitation to join Trump for dinner, and meet with other members of the incoming administration. The spokesperson said: \u201cIt\u2019s an important time for the future of American innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump in recent years has publicly railed against Zuckerberg, criticizing his decision to give hundreds of millions of dollars toward election infrastructure in 2020, which Trump described as election interference. Trump has repeatedly suggested Zuckerberg should be imprisoned, and threatened to do so<\/a> if he spent similarly toward election infrastructure this year.<\/p>\n

But both men in recent months have suggested they were coming around to each other. Trump in October told the Bussin\u2019 With The Boys podcast that he was feeling better about Zuckerberg, saying it was \u201cnice\u201d that he was \u201cstaying out of the election\u201d this time, and expressing gratitude for Zuckerberg calling him after the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see what comes of that,\u201d Miller told Fox News of the interest Zuckerberg expressed in working in conjunction with Trump. \u201cAnd Mark, obviously he has his own interest and he has his own company and his own agenda, but he\u2019s made clear he wants to support the national renewal of America under Trump\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerbeg made the trek to Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, where he met with President-elect Donald Trump and members of his soon-to-be second administration. The Meta CEO was seen with a large security and staff presence while at Trump\u2019s private Palm Beach club in the evening, a person with direct knowledge told Blue Light […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}