Google CEO Sundar Pichai to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago: report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is planning to meet with Trump next week, the president-elect said on Thursday.
53% : Pichai is just the latest billionaire tech executive from whom Trump has sought counsel, along with Tesla founder Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to The Information.
50% : Musk reportedly caught Pichai by surprise when he hopped on a phone call between the Google executive and Trump last month, according to The Information.
46% : Musk became a close confidant to Trump during the course of his campaign, joining him onstage at rallies and at his Mar-a-Lago residence on election night - and donating a massive $250 million to his campaign and pro-Trump PACs.
41% : As Pichai tries to warm up to Trump, he faces significant obstacles - including Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and X, formerly known as Twitter.
41% : Trump has sung a different tune on Google in recent months, defending the company and saying it should not be broken up, but he has still filled his incoming cabinet with anti-Google picks.
38% : ""Let's not let fear defeat our values," Pichai wrote in a blog post in 2015 after Trump, then a candidate, proposed the ban.
37% : But this meeting comes after years of Trump accusing the massive search engine of fervent anti-conservative - and anti-Trump - bias.
37% : "Big Tech has run wild for years," Trump said in a post on Truth Social announcing he would nominate Slater.
36% : Trump tapped Google critic Gail Slater to lead the Justice Department's antitrust efforts and signaled his administration would continue going after tech giants.
36% : Pichai is not expected to try any negotiations on the antitrust lawsuit or future regulations during his meeting with Trump, a person briefed on the plans told The Information.
36% : Tech leaders are scrambling to curry favor with Trump ahead of his second administration as they fear intense regulatory scrutiny.
24% : He doubled down in 2017, after Trump signed an executive order banning refugees from Muslim-majority countries, saying Google would "fight" the ban.
23% : As president, Trump could influence the weight of the penalty Google will face for operating an illegal monopoly.

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