Top tech leaders congratulate Trump on win
The leaders of the world’s biggest technology companies offered congratulations to President-elect Trump on Wednesday after the former president secured a second term in office.
Despite Trump’s rocky relationship with tech leaders, the messages flooded in quickly Wednesday morning.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who often feuded with Trump during his first administration, congratulated the president-elect on “an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory.”
“No nation has bigger opportunities,” Bezos wrote in a post on X. “Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love.”
Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, also applauded Trump’s “hard-fought victory” and said he and the e-commerce giant “look forward to working with you and your administration on issues important to our customers, employees, communities, and country.”
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg similarly praised the Republican’s “decisive victory.” Trump squarely defeated Harris with 312 electoral votes and is on track to capture the popular vote for the first time out of three presidential campaigns.
“We have great opportunities ahead of us as a country,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, Meta’s X competitor. “Looking forward to working with you and your administration.”
Zuckerberg has faced Trump’s ire since Facebook banned his account in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. However, the president-elect has seemingly warmed up to the Meta CEO in recent months, as he has attempted to extricate himself and his platforms from politics.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai also offered his congratulations to Trump on Wednesday, noting that “we are in a golden age of American innovation and are committed to working with his administration to help bring the benefits to everyone.”
The chief executives of Apple and Microsoft, Tim Cook and Satya Nadella, similarly congratulated the president-elect and professed their interest in “engaging with you and your administration.”
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX who backed Trump, also celebrated Wednesday’s results as he partied alongside the president-elect and his family in Palm Beach.
“The people of America gave @realDonaldTrump a crystal clear mandate for change tonight,” Musk wrote on X, shortly after Decision Desk HQ call the race for Trump.
“The future is gonna be fantastic,” he added in a separate post, accompanied by a photo of a rocket.
Musk’s pro-Trump super PAC, America PAC, played a central role in the Trump campaign’s get-out-the-vote efforts in swing states. The vast majority of the PAC’s funds came from the billionaire, who contributed about $118 million.
He also took on a more active role in boosting Trump, joining the former president at several rallies and hosting a series of town halls in the battleground state of Pennsylvania in the final weeks of the election.
The flurry of congratulatory messages for the president-elect come after many of the same tech leaders began reaching out to Trump privately in recent weeks.
Trump revealed last month that both Pichai and Cook had called him, while CNN reported that Jassy had also reached out to the Republican candidate. Leaders of Bezos’s aerospace company Blue Origin also met with Trump in October.