Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are set to remain with President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet contenders on Inauguration Day.
Musk is far and above the most outspoken Trump ally of the three, spending over$ 250 million to get him elected after endorsing him in the aftermath of the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Before the 2024 presidential election, Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, argued that it was necessary to maintain independence, so the news was prevented from backing Democrat nominee Kamala Harris. The action was commonly believed to be advantageous to Trump.
In recent months, Zuckerberg has changed his political communication. Trump and Republicans were critical of Twitter because it supposedly suppressed conservative voices in the 2020 vote. Zuckerberg was also involved in a scheme to funnel money to almost entirely Democratic-leaning initiatives intended to increase voter engagement. Detractors derisively called the software” Zuckerbucks”.
When he praised Trump’s activities following his assassination attempt as “one of the worst points I’ve ever seen in my life,” he started to change this pattern. He met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024 and loosened Meta’s content moderation guidelines this month forward of Trump’s opening, another walk viewed as advantageous to Trump.
Bezos and Zuckerberg both donated$ 1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund.
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Big Tech has been one of Trump’s biggest long-term foes, a frequent target of his indignation in public statements. During the 2024 election cycle, but, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg were among many key Big Tech characters who started to nice to him, with the trend intensifying after his success.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Apple CEO Tim Cook, application expert Marc Andreessen, and Google CEO Sunder Pichai have all made overtures toward Trump as well.
