Amazon, Meta to each contribute $1M to Trump's inauguration fund

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Amazon's plans -- first reported by The Wall Street Journal -- came after Trump said Thursday morning that the company's founder, Jeff Bezos, was planning to visit him in person next week.
63% : Separately, the donation from Meta, which was also first reported by the Journal, came just weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at Mar-a-Lago.
58% : Amazon had donated roughly $58,000 to Trump's 2017 inaugural, much lower than than $1 million it now plans to donate.
46% : The tech CEO has been seeking to change his company's perception on the right following a rocky relationship with Trump.
46% : Microsoft gave $1 million to Obama's second inaugural, but only $500,000 to Trump in 2017 and Biden in 2021.
45% : The company restored his account in early 2023.During the 2024 campaign, Zuckerberg did not endorse a candidate for president, but he has voiced a more positive stance toward Trump.
43% : Trump wrote.
22% : Still, Trump had continued to attack Zuckerberg publicly during the campaign.
18% : Trump was kicked off Facebook following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
17% : During his first term, Trump criticized Amazon and railed against the political coverage at The Washington Post, which Bezos owns.

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