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Companies they previously faced President-elect Trump now making seven-figure donations for its 2025 opening.
Trump has butted heads with several Fortune 500 company executives over the years, but after his victory in the presidential election in November, some of those same big business leaders are dropping big bucks on the exclusive inaugural festivities of the incoming president
“In the first term, everybody was fighting with me. This time, everybody wants to be my friend,” Trump said recently at Mar-a-Lago, according to The Washington Post.
Meta, the world’s largest social media network headed by Mark Zuckerberg, suspended Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in 2021 after the events of January 6, which Trump called an “insult” to his voters. In his new book, titled “Save America,” Trump accused Zuckerberg of “conspiring” against him in 2020.
DOJ LOOKING TO BLOCK JAN. 6 ASKED TO ATTEND TRUMP’S INAUGURATION
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives after a break during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC on January 31. (Kent Nishimura)
“He told me there was no one like Trump on Facebook. But at the same time, and for whatever reason, he directed it at me,” Trump wrote. “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, in his book, also accused Zuckerberg of “always conspiring to install shameful lockboxes in a true CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.”
However, the relationship seemed to change course as the election approached. After Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt in July, Zuckerberg said that Trump’s fist shooting into the air after suffering a gunshot wound to the ear was “one of the things rudest I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Shortly after Trump won the November election, Zuckerberg met with the incoming president at Mar-a-Lago. A few weeks later, Meta donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.
“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter and a part of this change that we’re seeing across America, across the world with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading,” said Trump adviser Stephen Miller. during an appearance a “The Ingraham Angle.”
Amazon, founded by Jeff Bezos, is donating $1 million to Trump’s 2025 inauguration. (AP Images)
Despite a year-long standoff between billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, and the incoming president, the e-commerce company recently pledged to donate $1 million to the fund Trump’s inauguration.
After Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in 2016 that Amazon was “getting away with murder, tax-wise,” Bezos hit back at the then-presidential candidate.
Bezos, speaking at a technology conference, said Trump’s comments were “not an appropriate way for a presidential candidate to conduct himself.”
“Washington Post employees want to go on strike because Bezos doesn’t pay them enough. I think a very long strike would be a great idea,” Trump wrote in another hit at the billionaire on X, then on Twitter, in June 2018. Employees would get more money and we would get rid of fake news for an extended period of time Is @WaPo a registered lobbyist?
The mood appeared to have changed after the 2024 election, when Bezos said he was “very optimistic” about Trump’s regulatory agenda.
President-elect Trump smiles Sunday during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble)
“I’m very hopeful: He seems to have a lot of energy to reduce regulation,” Bezos told the New York Times DealBook Summit. “My point of view is, if I can help him do it, I’ll help him.”
When Ford agreed to make a deal to meet California’s efficiency standards, the company challenged then-President Trump’s plans to have the state set its own green energy standards for automakers.
Trump expressed his opposition to the auto giant’s decision, saying that Henry Ford, the company’s founder, would be “very disappointed if he saw that his descendants today want to build a much more expensive car that is much less safe and not work, too, because executives don’t want to fight California regulators.”
The blue oval Ford Motor Company logo sits on the cross grill of a 2008 F-150 pickup truck at a Ford dealership in Centennial, Colorado on November 2, 2008. (David Zalubowski)
Ford, one of the world’s largest automakers, recently announced it will make a seven-figure donation to Trump’s inauguration in January.
Other major automakers, including GM and Toyota, will also make individual $1 million donations to Trump.
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Trump will also receive a $1 million donation for the inauguration of Intuit, whose stock recently plunged in November after it was reported that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was considering creating a free app for tax filing.
