Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to Mar A on Wednesday, just months after the tech entrepreneur publicly praised President-elect Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt. I visited Largo.
Zuckerberg’s visit to Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Florida, was confirmed by Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle.”
“Mark Zuckerberg has made very clear his desire to be a supporter and participant in this change that we’re seeing across America and around the world with this reform movement led by Donald Trump.” Miller told the guest host. Brian Kilmeade.
“Mark Zuckerberg, like many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change and an agent of prosperity.”
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Miller added that while tech CEOs “have their own interests,” he sees President Trump’s second term as an opportunity for “national renewal.”
“Mark, obviously he has his own interests, his own company, his own policies,” Miller said. “But he has made it clear that he wants to support America’s national rebirth under President Trump’s leadership.”
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In July, Mr. Zuckerberg praised Mr. Trump’s fist-pumping response to the July 13 assassination attempt on him in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“look donald trump “To stand up after being shot in the face and raise an American flag and put your fist in the air is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg told Bloomberg just days after the shooting occurred. spoke.
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“As an American, in some ways it’s hard not to get emotional about that spirit and that fight. I think that’s why so many people like this guy,” he added.
Zuckerberg’s visit to Mar-a-Lago is not the Facebook founder’s first interaction with a Republican leader. In August, President Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that Zuckerberg: I called him to apologize Beyond error.
“So Mark Zuckerberg called me. First, he called me twice. He called me after the event and said it was really great,” Trump said. He said this in an interview on the FOX Business program “Morning with Maria” on April 1st. “It was really courageous.”
“And in fact, he announced that he would not support the Democrats because he couldn’t because he respected what I did that day,” the Republican continued. “I think what I did was…a normal reaction for me.”
Trump added that Zuckerberg apologized after Facebook mislabeled a photo of him that went viral.
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“He actually apologized. He said they made a mistake…and they’re correcting the mistake,” Trump said.
FOX Business’ Michael Dorgan and Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.