META Corporation, the Maternal company Facebook and Instagram, sent $ 1 million to the Inaugural Fund of the elected President of the United States Donald Trump.
According to Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing a representative of META, the owner of the company Mark Zuckerberg donated $ 1 million to the fund, the funds will be used to cover the costs of the inauguration of the 47th US president. No statements about the reasons for the donation were received from the company.
At the end of November, Trump spent dinner in his residence of Mar-A-Lesa with Tsuckerberg. This has become the culmination of two -day meetings of the advisers of the head of META with the team of the Republicans, writes WSJ.
The decision on donation is regarded as the step of Tsuckerberg to develop positive relations with the elected president.
Commenting on the November meeting by Stephen Miller, whom Trump was not unnecessary as deputy head of the White House administration responsible for politics, said that the billionaire intends to support the economic plans of the elected president and is trying to correct “problematic” relations with him.
Relations of Trump and Tsuckerberg
The day after the capture of the Capitol in the United States on January 6, 2021, as a result of which 5 people were killed, Facebook and Instagram closed Trump’s accounts “for an indefinite period” on the grounds that it “unreasonably distributes reports of falsification of the results of the presidential election 3 November 2020 and encourages supporters to violence. “
In 2021, Trump made a statement in which he reminded that during his previous period of the presidency he accepted the founder of Facebook Tsuckerberg and his wife at his dinner. “When I come to the White House again, there will be no more dinners for Zuckerberg and his wife,” the politician said.