A bevy of the most prominent billionaires and technology executives in the United States have publicly congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his election victory.
Among the first to do so was Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, whose controversial blocking of the newspaper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris dominated headlines in the lead-up to the election. “Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory,” Bezos wrote in a post on X on Wednesday. “Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love.”
A bevy of the most prominent billionaires and technology executives in the United States have publicly congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his election victory.
Among the first to do so was Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, whose controversial blocking of the newspaper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris dominated headlines in the lead-up to the election. “Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory,” Bezos wrote in a post on X on Wednesday. “Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman soon followed suit, as did Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Many of those tech executives had remained relatively neutral in the election, though some notable ones didn’t.
Chief among them was Tesla and SpaceX CEO and X owner Elon Musk. The world’s wealthiest man not only donated more than $100 million to Trump’s reelection effort and campaigned with him, but Musk could also be set for a role in Trump’s administration. Other prominent Trump backers in Silicon Valley included Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
On the other side of that equation were Texas billionaire Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team who campaigned for Harris, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. In a lengthy post shared on LinkedIn and X, Hoffman expressed hope that Trump “wouldn’t seek to punish political opponents, wouldn’t corruptly play favorites in business or foreign policy, wouldn’t actually enact a crippling, 19th-century tariff regime,” as Trump promised to do on the campaign trail.
Cuban’s message was more succinct. “Congrats @realDonaldTrump. You won fair and square,” he wrote on X. “Congrats to @elonmusk as well.”
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