Amazon is following Meta’s lead by making a $1 million donation to president-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund simply at some point after Meta made an equivalent donation.
Amazon confirmed the contribution to a number of retailers on Thursday. Sources instructed the Wall Avenue Journal that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos helped Amazon resolve on the quantity.
“Bezos is donating by way of Amazon,” a supply claimed to the WSJ.
The inaugural fund covers early bills that come up when a brand new president takes workplace. Federal Election Fee data present that Microsoft donated $500,000 to each Trump’s first inauguration in 2017 and President Joe Biden’s in 2021. Amazon did not donate in 2021 however gave about $58,000 in 2017.
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Amazon can also be making a separate donation along with the $1 million in money: It is going to stream the inauguration by way of Prime Video, a contribution valued at an extra $1 million, per the WSJ.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Picture by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures
Trump confirmed on Thursday that he’ll meet with Bezos at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Seashore, Florida subsequent week. Bezos joins different tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, who’ve just lately met with Trump there.
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“Mark Zuckerberg has been over to see me and I can inform you Elon is one other and Jeff Bezos is developing subsequent week and I need to get concepts from them,” Trump instructed CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday. “Look, we would like them to do properly, we would like all people, we would like nice jobs, incredible salaries… We would like individuals working and we would like them working for some huge cash.”
Bezos spoke extremely of Trump just lately and stated that he was “very optimistic” about Trump’s second time period in workplace.
Trump is “calmer than he was the primary time and extra assured, extra settled,” Bezos stated on the New York Occasions DealBook Summit final week.
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