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Amazon laminitis and Washington Post proprietor Jeff Bezos has go the latest billionaire to conscionable Donald Trump astatine his Florida resort.
He was seen entering Mar-a-Lago connected Wednesday nighttime connected his mode to meal with the president-elect, successful video posted connected societal media.
The concern magnate has pledged $1m (£780,000) to Trump's inauguration fund, 1 of a fig of donations pledged by tech bosses.
Mr Bezos besides has ample concern interests with the US authorities done respective of his companies, including Amazon's unreality computing part and Blue Origin, his abstraction exploration company.
Others who person travelled to Mar-a-Lago precocious see Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Sam Altman, TikTok's Shou Zi Chew and Apple's Tim Cook.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is besides scheduled to conscionable Trump connected Thursday.
The meetings travel arsenic Trump has some threatened and praised tech companies, accusing immoderate of censorship and threatening to ace down connected immoderate of their concern practices.
Amazon volition watercourse Trump's 20 January inauguration connected its Prime Video service, which volition number arsenic different $1m donation in-kind to his inauguration fund, according to CBS News, the BBC's US quality partner.
Mr Zuckerberg of Meta – the proprietor of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – has pledged $1m to the fund, arsenic has OpenAI main enforcement Sam Altman.
The tech brag closest to Trump - Tesla, SpaceX and X proprietor Elon Musk - funnelled much than $250m to predetermination efforts backing Trump, according to nationalist records.
Musk was besides contiguous astatine the Bezos-Trump dinner, saying later it had been a "great conversation".
Trump has picked Mr Musk and erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy to caput an effort to slash authorities spending. In the 2024 fund year, Mr Musk's SpaceX has US authorities contracts worthy $3.8bn, according to authorities database USASpending.gov.
Mr Bezos besides has important concern with the government.
Amazon Web Services was awarded a 10-year, $10bn declaration with the National Security Agency successful 2021. In 2023, Nasa announced a $3.4bn declaration with Blue Origin to physique a lunar lander for a planned ngo to the moon.
Just days earlier the November election, the Washington Post announced that it would not beryllium endorsing a candidate for the archetypal clip successful decades.
Mr Bezos explained the determination by saying endorsements make a cognition of bias.
"Ending them is simply a principled decision, and it's the close one," helium wrote successful the Post.
Mr Musk and different concern leaders specified arsenic fiscal services steadfast Cantor Fitzgerald's CEO Howard Lutnick – Trump's prime for commerce caput - person been portion of Trump's interior ellipse since earlier the election.
But different tech leaders and billionaires person had a much distant relationship.
Trump was suspended from Facebook aft the Capitol riot pursuing his nonaccomplishment successful the 2020 election, and aboriginal reinstated.
This clip around, Mr Zuckerberg appears to person changed tack.
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