First son Eric Trump changed his feelings about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg drastically and says he has now “actually come to like him,” even after Zuckerberg’s rampant censorship.
Trump sat down with Miranda Devine on her Pod Force One podcast on Wednesday, and the discussion turned to Big Tech censorship. Trump explained a surprising interaction that he had with Zuckerberg on the day of his father’s second inauguration. “He came up to me in a really friendly way. I’ll never forget this, and I legitimately believe he meant it, and he kind of checked me with his shoulder, right? Like, and he goes, ‘Let’s freaking go. Let’s go!’ And he had his hand out and he was like half hugging me and we’re shaking hands.”
Zuckerberg’s friendly interaction with Trump was a stark contrast to how the tech mogul previously treated his father. Trump explained how his own social media accounts were search-suppressed around the time of the 2020 election, noting that he had “detested” Zuckerberg. His feelings were due in large part to Meta platforms aggressively censoring his father, the sitting president, as well as the reported $400 million+ in “Zuckerbucks” that Zuckerberg dropped into elections around the country in 2020.
Trump explained that “a lot of people would argue that was in violation of campaign finance laws and everything else.” Indeed, MRC Free Speech America conducted a study that detailed 39 ways that Facebook interfered in elections since 2008, with 17 of them involving the 2020 election. Trump specifically cited Facebook’s suppression of polling information and biased search results that heavily favored former President Joe Biden.
Trump continued, saying that “all of a sudden in 2024 it seemed like he was a different person.” In fact, it was in August 2024 that Zuckerberg reportedly called Donald Trump and apologized to him. It was also when Zuckerberg admitted to censoring information related to the 2020 election and COVID-19 under pressure from the Biden administration.
Trump explained to Devine that he believed Zuckerberg “was sincere” because “I think he realized how badly they were misled. I think he realized how wrong he was.”
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