Major business leaders, including Ted Sarandos of Netflix and Jeff Bezos of Amazon, have been meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort to build relationships with his incoming administration.
Ted Sarandos, the 60-year-old chief executive of Netflix, has been a prominent Democratic donor for years. But on Tuesday, he became the latest senior figure in corporate America to step into Donald Trump ’s Mar-a-Lago resort to pay tribute to the Republican president-elect and build relations with his incoming administration.
From Hollywood to Silicon Valley and Wall Street, senior executives have been bending over backwards to meet Trump since he won the presidential election against Kamala Harris in early November. The pace of meetings has accelerated in recent days — and has moved well beyond the world of Republican donors Trump steadily reeled in to finance his campaign. As well as seeing Sarandos, Trump is due to meet billionaire Amazon boss Jeff Bezos on Wednesday. This follows a visit from Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, on Monday, just hours after Trump stood beside Masayoshi Son to announce a $100bn US investment from Japan’s SoftBank. Inside Trump’s orbit, the meetings are cast as a vote of confidence in the president-elect and his economic policies. Many in the business world had stopped engaging with Trump after his tumultuous first term and the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Some had backed Trump’s opponents in this year’s White House race. “Some of these CEOs are showing that they will be willing partners in the upcoming administration, and saying that they want to focus on where they can work together, even if they have not been politically supportive in the past,” said Jason Miller, a senior Trump adviser. “There will be a whole bunch more coming, domestic CEOs and international CEOs.” The executives’ motivations vary: TikTok’s Shou is looking to save the popular app from a US ban due to take effect next year and hoping to find some sympathy from Trump. Big Tech executives, including Tim Cook of Apple, Sundar Pichai of Google and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, are seeking a more benign regulatory environmen
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