Haberman says Zuckerberg's Mar-a-Lago visit a signal industry may be courting Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Trump seemingly changed his tune on the Facebook founder after he chose to withhold an endorsement during the 2024 presidential election.
62% : "Musk is also, and depends on the day, the richest or one of the richest men in the world, and Trump has a huge fascination with wealth," the veteran journalist added later.
57% : "It's not clear that whether Zuckerberg sought this meeting or Trump sought this meeting, but one person described it as Trump essentially saying hey ... 'why don't you come over to Mar-a-Lago?'" she said Wednesday evening on CNN's "AC360.""And as you said, Zuckerberg had expressed praise for Trump earlier this year for his defiant posture after he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, by a would-be assassin," she told host John Berman, adding later that "clearly Zuckerberg wants to have a better relationship with Trump.
57% : "As you noted, Trump equates wealth with intelligence, and so I actually think this relationship could last for quite some time."
47% : "But certainly, the tech industry, a lot of people coming to Trump and not the other way around.
33% : National political correspondent Maggie Haberman said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent visit to President-elect Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort may show that industries are seeking to build a bridge with Trump ahead of the inauguration, and not the other way around.
13% : "If Trump is getting tired of him, Trump is not making that, especially public," she said.

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