Amazon is following Meta's lead by making a $1 million donation to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund just one day after Meta made a matching donation.
Amazon confirmed the contribution to multiple outlets on Thursday. SOuRCES told him Wall Street Journal that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos helped Amazon decide on the amount.
“Bezos is donating through Amazon,” a source told The WSJ.
The inaugural fund covers early expenses that occur when a new president takes office. Data from the Federal Election Commission show that Microsoft donated $500,000 to Trump's first inauguration in 2017 and President Joe Biden's in 2021. Amazon did not donate in 2021, but gave about $58,000 in 2017.
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Amazon is also making a special donation in addition to the $1 million in cash: it will stream the inauguration through Prime Videoa contribution worth an additional $1 million, for WSJ.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Trump confirmed Thursday that he will meet with Bezos at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida next week. Bezos joins other tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk who have recently met with Trump there.
“Mark Zuckerberg has gone to see me and I can tell you that Elon is another one and Jeff Bezos is coming next week and I want to get ideas from them,” Trump. said CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday. “Look, we want them to do well, we want everybody, we want great jobs, great pay… We want people to work and we want them to work for a lot of money.”
Bezos has been talking a lot about Trump lately, and he said yes “very optimistic” about Trump's second term in office.
Trump is “calmer than he was the first time and more confident, more determined,” Bezos said said IN New York Times DealBook Summit last week.