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President Trump’s inaugural fund has received a $1 million donation from Meta.
The donation was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Meta reportedly confirmed the donation to the outlet.
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund https://t.co/HwarW2LZL2
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 12, 2024
The donation follows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg privately meeting with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg meets with President Trump at Mar-a-Lagohttps://t.co/D431QeTFmY
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 28, 2024
Per Fox Business:
Citing people familiar with the discussion, the outlet reported the promise of the paycheck came before Zuckerberg met with Trump at a November Mar-A-Lago dinner following the Republican’s presidential win.
At the dinner, according to the outlet, Zuckerberg also provided a demonstration on the company’s latest invention – Ray Ban Smart Glasses – and gifted them to Trump.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta contributes $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund.
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/NZdcasnAZJ
— AF Post (@AFpost) December 12, 2024
🚨 JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg has just donated $1 million to President Trump’s inauguration, per WSJ
Has he finally had an epiphany, or is he just kissing the ring in an attempt to avoid prosecution? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/dPQcCE6zIH
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 12, 2024
Business Insider reports:
Inaugural fund expenses are designated for expenditures associated with the presidential inauguration.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who did not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, has been working to mend relations with Trump.
Last month, Zuckerberg visited Trump at his resort in Mar-a-Lago for Thanksgiving Eve dinner.
In August, then-Republican-nominee Trump warned that Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he tried to interfere in the 2024 US election.
Meta indefinitely suspended Trump from Facebook and Instagram after January 6, 2021, for what the company called “praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol.”
The company lifted the suspension in January 2023.
BREAKING: Former President Trump will be allowed back on Instagram and Facebook, Facebook’s parent company Meta said on Wednesday. What’s your reaction? pic.twitter.com/9VkLwKYwUV
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) January 25, 2023
From Meta:
Today we are making a change to the updated protocol we announced in January 2023. To ensure people can hear from political candidates on our platforms, we will review accounts subject to this protocol on a periodic basis to determine whether heightened suspension penalties for Community Standards violations remain appropriate. We will make this determination by weighing our responsibility, as outlined by the Oversight Board, to “allow political expression” against our responsibility “to avoid serious risks to other human rights.”
With the party conventions taking place shortly, including the Republican convention next week, the candidates for President of the United States will soon be formally nominated. In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear from the nominees for President on the same basis. As a result, former President Trump, as the nominee of the Republican Party, will no longer be subject to the heightened suspension penalties. In reaching this conclusion, we also considered that these penalties were a response to extreme and extraordinary circumstances, and have not had to be deployed. All US Presidential candidates remain subject to the same Community Standards as all Facebook and Instagram users, including those policies designed to prevent hate speech and incitement to violence.