Donald Trump on relationship with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: May be they didn't ...

Donald Trump recently said that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg "have been great" as they adjust their companies' policies during his second term as president. In an interview with the Atlantic, Trump spoke about how some of his earlier critics that included Bezos and Zuckerberg among others, now “respect” him. “It’s just a higher level of respect. I don’t know,” Trump said. “Maybe they didn’t know me at the beginning, and they know me now,” he added. Both Amazon and Meta reportedly donated $1 million each to Trump’s inauguration. Before his inauguration, Trump, as per media reports, showed a call log to a friend, highlighting calls from several billionaires. The list included his close confidante Elon Musk, along with Bezos and Zuckerberg.
Referring to Bezos, Trump said “He’s 100 percent. He’s been great,” adding “Zuckerberg’s been great.”
“Maybe they didn’t know me at the beginning, and they know me now,” he added.
The praise comes months after Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, announced changes at the publication. In February, he reportedly stopped opinion writers from topics such as "personal liberties and free markets."

Zuckerberg, on the other hand, removed Meta’s fact-checkers, calling them “too politically biased.” After the January 6 Capitol riot, Meta suspended Trump’s accounts for two years. Trump sued Meta in 2021, which the company later settled for $25 million.
Speaking about his second term, Trump told The Atlantic: “The first time, I had two things to do—run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” he said. “And the second time, I run the country and the world.”
In related news, Amazon came under fire from President Donald Trump following a news report that the company is adding tariff pricing to its site. The report claimed that Amazon planned to start showing how much of each product's cost derived from tariffs “right next to” its total listed price, citing an anonymous source familiar with the matter. his news quickly drew the ire of President Trump. Following the news report, an upset President Donald Trump personally called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to complain about the online retail giant's reported plan of was considering displaying the US tariff costs on its product listings.