Is this the start of a beautiful friendship between former President Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg?
Zuckerberg is allegedly trying to make amends with the former President over Meta's AI assistant mislabeled and censored a photo of Trump after the July assassination attempt.
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Trump said in an interview Friday that Zuckerberg called him to apologize for the mistake.
“(Zuckerberg) said they made a mistake and they're correcting the mistake,” Trump said as he called out Google for not apologizing after the search engine reportedly censored news of the incident. “I believe Mark Zuckerberg, he called me a lot.”
Trump says Zuckerberg called him after the assassination and he won't try to help Democrats win in 2024 like he did in 2020 pic.twitter.com/i9LKyqHwmV
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 2, 2024
Trump says Zuckerberg called him “amazing” and “brave” and also claimed Zuckerberg said he would not support Democrats in the November election.
“He actually announced that he won't support a Democrat because he can't; because he respected me for what I did that day,” Trump said. Maria Bartiromo of Fox.
Zuckerberg posted congratulations to Trump on Threads after the rally shooting.
“This is such a sad day for our country,” he wrote at the time. “Political violence undermines democracy and must always be punished.”
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg's rival and hopeful cage match opponent Elon Musk publicly approved Trump for President on social media in July.
Trump and Meta have had a contentious relationship. Trump's accounts were closed after the January 6 riots at the US Capitol (and returned to early 2023), and just last month, Trump threatened to send Zuckerberg to prison on Social Truth.
Zuckerberg has not publicly endorsed a presidential candidate before the 2024 election.