Mark Zuckerberg told Trump he won’t support Democrats in 2024
Donald Trump revealed that Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reached out to him after the attempted assassination on his life and told the former president and GOP frontrunner that he felt the action of standing up after being shot was “brave.” Zuckerberg also revealed to Trump that he has no intention of supporting Democrats in the upcoming presidential election.
“He actually announced that he can’t support a Democrat,” Trump said, “because he can’t because he respected me for what I did that say.” For Trump, the reaction of standing up after being shot, of encouraging the crowd, letting them know that he was alright, was “a normal response,” he said in the interview with Maria Bartiromo from Bedminster, NJ.
Bartiromo asked Trump about the recent kerfuffle at Facebook, where photos of Trump post assassination attempt, with face bloodied and fist raised, were censored amid claims that the photo had been altered. This stemmed from the circulation of an altered image of the photo, the original of which had been taken by an AP reporter. In the wake of that circulation, all posts of the photos were censored by Facebook, not just the altered ones.
“I was called by Mark Zuckerberg,” he said, “yesterday, the day before, on this same subject. And h actually apologized, he said he made a mistake. On Google, no one called from Google.” Google had suppressed search results on the assassination attempt.
“Google has been very bad,” he went on to say, “they’ve been very irresponsible. And I have a feeling that Google’s going to be close to shut down, because I don’t think Congress is going to take it. I really don’t think so. Google has to be careful.”
As for Zuckerberg, Trump said “I believe Mark Zuckerberg, he called me a lot, they are working on it, and I think they fixed it, and he’s not doing what he did four years ago with the $500 million.”
Zuckerberg recently said that he thought Trump was “badass” for getting back up after being shot in the face.
While he said he would not be endorsing either political candidate, he also said that he would not be leaning in to support Democrats as he had done in the past. In 2020, Facebook suppressed reporting on Joe Biden’s ties to his son’s shady business dealings. It was later revealed through polling that many Americans would not have cast their votes for Biden had they known about the overseas influence peddling rampant within the Biden family.