On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago private members club with Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos and his fiancé Lauren Sanchez.
The announcement signals the president-elect is continuing to strengthen his ties to billionaire tech leaders.
Elon Musk is currently all in with his relationship with Donald Trump and has even reportedly gatecrashed a dinner with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, something that has already created a major stir on social media,
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, also plans to send $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to make a $1 million personal donation to Trump's inaugural fund, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. Fox News Digital first reported Altman's intended donation.
Lauren Sánchez celebrated her son Evan Whitesell's acceptance to the University of Miami. Evan will be attending the same university as Kai Trump, granddaughter of President-elect Donald Trump. Sánchez,
Amazon and Meta, seeking to get in Donald Trump's good graces, are each giving $1 million to the president-elect's inauguration fund.
Most major media properties are tied to larger business interests that can benefit from government policy—or be harmed by it.
Amazon confirmed on Thursday that it will give $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, following on the heels of Meta's $1 million contribution this week.
After a friendly dinner with Donald Trump that included rival rocket executive Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos now plans to attend the president-elect's inauguration. Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, dined with Trump and his wife Melania at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Wednesday,
Trump also said he might pardon New York Mayor Eric Adams and discussed Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.