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Amazon boss to donate $1m to Trump's inaugural fund
The Independent
|December 14, 2024
Amazon's executive chair Jeff Bezos is reportedly set to donate $1m (£791,000) to Donald Trump's inaugural fund - following in the footsteps of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who did the same earlier this week.
Mr Bezos’s gesture was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and dwarfs the $57,746 the company donated to Mr Trump’s first inauguration in 2017.
Amazon will also make a second in-kind donation worth $1m by streaming the inauguration on its Prime Video platform, a source told the paper.
Mr Trump told CNBC on Thursday that Mr Bezos is also travelling to Mar-a-Lago to meet with him next week.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is also expected to hold a meeting with Mr Trump in Florida while Mr Zuckerberg paid him a visit last month. During Mr Zuckerberg’s visit, he reportedly gave Mr Trump a personal demonstration of Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses, gifted him a pair and also met with the president-elect’s pick for secretary of state, Marco Rubio, plus advisers Stephen Miller, Vince Haley and James Blair.
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