Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was spotted heading to Mar-a-Lago for dinner with President-elect Donald Trump late Wednesday night.
Bezos, along with his fiancee Lauren Sanchez, attended Trump’s first dinner after Trump, who will become the 47th President, won re-election.
Trump had said last week that Bezos would come to meet him at his Florida mansion.
The billionaire is one of a number of tech executives hoping to curry Trump’s favor ahead of the inauguration. Bezos had informed Trump’s team about this He will donate 1 million dollars For their inaugural fund, According to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump’s relationship with Bezos has been rocky for years, but the tech mogul’s newspaper, The Washington Post, has declined to endorse either candidate in the 2024 election, breaking with its tradition of generally endorsing Democrats. It seems to be improving.
Bezos reveals he is “optimistic” about Trump’s second term during an interview at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit in New York earlier this month.
“This time I’m actually very optimistic,” Bezos said. “It seems like they have a lot of energy for reducing regulation. If I can help him do that, I’m going to help him.
“We have a lot of regulations in this country,” Bezos said.
Trump also said he had warm feelings about re-establishing relationships with business leaders ahead of his second term.
“I want to get ideas from them,” Trump said of his relationships with business leaders after ringing the bell of the New York Stock Exchange last week after being named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.”
“Look, we want them to do well.”
Other tech leaders who have signaled they want to cooperate with Trump include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who also plans to donate $1 million, and TikTok CEO Shaw Zi Chew , who met with the President-elect this week.
Tech giant Elon Musk has also been at the center of Trump’s re-election and transition efforts, pressuring Republicans on Wednesday to drop a ballooning spending bill that included several Democrat provisions.
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