Big Tech CEOs send well wishes to Trump
Tech world reactions came from leaders including Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
Tech company CEOs who largely sat on the sidelines for the presidential election sent their congratulations Wednesday to President-elect Donald Trump, ignoring Trump’s history of threats against some of them and joining their peer Elon Musk in welcoming Trump back to power.
A series of tech titans weighed in on social media with warm wishes for Trump including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amazon Executive Chair Jeff Bezos and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
“Congratulations to President Trump on a decisive victory,” Zuckerberg wrote on his app Threads. “We have great opportunities ahead of us as a country. Looking forward to working with you and your administration.”
Trump publicly threatened Zuckerberg with “life in prison” in a book published two months ago — one of many battles between Trump and the tech industry that the CEOs appeared to be putting aside at least temporarily in the wake of Trump’s electoral victory.
“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Trump wrote in his book, regarding Zuckerberg.
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