Why Bezos and Zuckerberg are suddenly getting so friendly with Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : But the Amazon founder isn't the only billionaire antagonist now making nice with Trump ahead of his second term.
55% : After a gunman came within inches of shooting Trump in the head during a July rally in Pennsylvania, Bezos took to X to praise the then-former president for having shown "tremendous grace and courage under literal fire" after photographs emerged of Trump raising a fist while preventing his Secret Service detail from shielding him properly.
48% : But in recent months, Bezos has taken steps to ease his once-fraught relationship with Trump.
42% : In an interview with "The Circuit" podcast, he said seeing Trump "get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag" was "one of the most badass things [he'd] ever seen in [his] life."But sympathy for an almost-murdered politician and respect for his post-shooting posturing isn't necessarily what's driving the about-face by Zuckerberg and Bezos.
42% : Under a photo of the two men taken during a meeting at the White House, Trump wrote that Zuckerberg "would come to the Oval Office to see me.
23% : "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 added.
22% : In his book, he wrote that Zuckerberg "told me there was nobody like Trump on Facebook.
21% : Trump, who spent the last few years running on a platform of revenge and retribution, is now in a position to torment his perceived enemies.
20% : But Trump saw the civic engagement funding as something more sinister.
19% : In a photo book published this year, Trump actually threatened to imprison him.
18% : Conspiracy theorists and election deniers allied with Trump have accused Zuckerberg of only funding elections in Democratic areas.
17% : Zuckerberg -- whose platforms once banned Trump in the wake of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by his supporters -- also started taking a softer line with the president-elect after the attempted assassination.
10% : Now, with Trump poised to re-enter the White House, he and his fellow tech titans are bending over backwards to make sure Trump won't even consider following through on the threats he once leveled against them.

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