Donald Trump hosts Mark Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago dinner months after threatening to jail him

Donald Trump welcomed Mark Zuckerberg to Mar-a-Lago months aft the president-elect threatened to jailhouse the Meta main if helium attempted to interfere successful the election

Donald Trump welcomed Mark Zuckerberg to Mar-a-Lago months aft the president-elect threatened to jailhouse the Meta main if helium attempted to interfere successful the election.

Stephen Miller, who was tapped to service arsenic the president-elect's lawman main of unit for policy, confirmed the brace dined unneurotic astatine the West Palm Beach, Florida, edifice connected Wednesday. The gathering came arsenic Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum humiliated Trump aft helium boasted helium had secured the "immediate" extremity of migrants crossing the confederate border. She alternatively insisted that her state volition "not adjacent borders."

The president-elect had claimed to person had a "wonderful" speech with Sheinbaum a time aft she published a scathing unfastened missive to him astir migration, fentanyl trafficking and tariffs. Trump wrote connected Truth Social that she had agreed to "stop migration done Mexico," which would "effectively" adjacent the confederate border.

"In our speech with President Trump, I explained to him the broad strategy that Mexico has followed to code the migration phenomenon, respecting quality rights," she said. "Thanks to this, migrants and caravans are assisted earlier they scope the border. We reiterate that Mexico's presumption is not to adjacent borders but to physique bridges betwixt governments and betwixt peoples."

As the fallout began, Trump welcomed Zuckerberg to his Florida home. In caller months, the Meta brag has sought to alteration his company's cognition of the close pursuing a rocky narration with Trump. "Mark, obviously, helium has his ain interest, and helium has his ain company, and helium has his ain agenda," Miller said successful an interrogation connected Fox News astir the meeting. "But he's made wide that helium wants to enactment the nationalist renewal of America nether Trump's leadership."

A spokesperson for Meta confirmed that Zuckerberg and Trump met connected Wednesday, saying helium was invited to meal with the president-elect and different squad members to speech astir the incoming administration.

Trump was kicked disconnected Facebook pursuing the January 6 2021 onslaught connected the US Capitol. The institution restored his relationship successful aboriginal 2023. During the 2024 campaign, the Facebook billionaire did not endorse a statesmanlike candidate.

Zuckerberg has since taken a much affirmative stance towards Trump. Earlier this year, helium praised the president-elect's effect to his archetypal assassination attempt, calling it "badass". Zuckerberg besides complained that elder Biden medication officials had pressured Facebook to "censor" immoderate Covid-19 contented during the pandemic.

In caller months, Trump has continued to onslaught Zuckerberg publicly. In July, helium posted a connection connected his ain societal network, Truth Social, threatening to nonstop predetermination fraudsters to prison, successful portion by citing a nickname helium utilized for the Meta chief, writing: "ZUCKERBUCKS, beryllium careful!"

The sojourn connected the eve of the US Thanksgiving vacation besides comes arsenic tech mogul Elon Musk has go much influential successful Trump's Make America Great Again movement. Through his governmental enactment committee, Musk contributed an estimated 200 cardinal dollars (£158 million) to assistance elite Trump. Musk is the billionaire proprietor of the X societal network, a rival to Meta.

Since the election, helium has spent sizeable clip astatine Mar-a-Lago, and Trump selected him to pb an extracurricular advisory sheet known arsenic the "Department of Government Efficiency" to place discarded with Vivek Ramaswamy, a task capitalist and erstwhile Republican statesmanlike candidate.