Mark Zuckerberg says Trump’s fist pump was “one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life”

Just days aft erstwhile President Donald Trump vowed to nonstop Mark Zuckerberg to prison for “long periods of time,” the CEO of Meta is returning the favour — by complimenting Trump.

“Seeing Donald Trump get up aft getting changeable successful the look and pump his fist successful the aerial with the American emblem is 1 of the astir badass things I’ve ever seen successful my life,” Zuckerberg told Bloomberg. “On immoderate level arsenic an American, it’s similar hard to not get benignant of affectional astir that tone and that fight, and I deliberation that that’s wherefore a batch of radical similar the guy.”

Though Zuckerberg didn’t explicitly endorse Trump, his comments whitethorn assistance to soothe the erstwhile president’s choler towards the Facebook founder, whom helium has antecedently referred to arsenic an “Election Fraudster.”

“All I tin accidental is that if I’m elected President, we volition prosecute Election Fraudsters astatine levels ne'er seen before, and they volition beryllium sent to situation for agelong periods of time,” Trump wrote successful a station connected Truth Social. “We already cognize who you are. DON’T DO IT! ZUCKERBUCKS, beryllium careful!”

Trump and different Republican politicians person rallied against “the elite,” adjacent portion members of that precise people successful the tech satellite rise millions of dollars successful enactment of his campaign.

Billionaire Elon Musk endorsed Trump soon aft the assassination effort astatine a run rally past week, and helium reportedly plans to nonstop $45 cardinal a period to the pro-Trump America PAC, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Other individuals throwing wealth into the ace PAC see task capitalist David Sacks (who spoke astatine the Republican National Convention this week); Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale; and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, of the task steadfast Andreessen Horowitz, told employees this week that they program to travel suit. Andreessen serves connected the Meta committee of directors.

To get a consciousness of the narration betwixt Trump and Silicon Valley, look nary further than the idiosyncratic selected arsenic his moving mate: Ohio Senator JD Vance, whose palmy 2022 run was bankrolled by PayPal cofounder and close helping booster Peter Thiel. Vance is simply a erstwhile worker of Thiel’s and a person — and now, perhaps, a nonstop enactment into argumentation for the tech elites, who are increasingly nether authorities scrutiny from some the close and the left.