The news of this donation comes just two weeks after The Wall Street Journal reported Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg having a private visit with Trump at his Mar-A-Lago club

The parent company of Facebook, Meta, has reportedly donated $1 million to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inaugural, the company confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.

The news of the donation comes following reports from The Wall Street Journal that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago club in West Palm Beach, Florida two weeks ago. Zukerbergs attempts to mend his and the company’s relationship with Trump is a complete reversal from 2021 when Meta banned Trump from Facebook following his repeated claims the 2020 election was stolen and the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

CNN reported that Zuckerberg is trying to get a more involved role in the upcoming administration in hopes of shaping the future of tech policy in the federal government. Zuckerberg had been slowly showing more affirmation towards Trump during the campaign even reacting to the famous photo of Trump with his fist in the air following the assignation attempt on his life back in July, calling it “badass.”

Despite this Trump has not held back from criticizing tech companies over the years, even saying as early back as March that Facebook was “the enemy of the people,” which caused Meta’s stock to fall by 4% that day. ( 
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“Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said during an interview with “The Circuit” podcast at Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

Despite this Trump has not held back from criticizing tech companies over the years, even saying as early back as March that Facebook was “the enemy of the people,” which caused Meta’s stock to fall by 4% that day. Trump has also threatened to imprison “election fraudsters,” including Zuckerberg, whom he seemed to reference during a TruthSocial post in July.

Trump has seemingly been more than happy to embrace the attention from the tech companies as he flaunted his private conversations with them, despite having placed blame on many of them for his 2020 election defeat. ( 
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Other leaders of tech giants jockeyed to get closer to the then-candidate during the campaign including Amazon’s Andy Jassy, Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai. Of course, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had become a close ally of Trump and was his top donor and will reportedly head a so-called Department of Government Efficiently with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

Trump has seemingly been more than happy to embrace the attention from the tech companies as he flaunted his private conversations with them, despite having placed blame on many of them for his 2020 election defeat.