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President Donald Trump said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told him there is “no way” he could support a Democrat in the 2024 election.
Trump shared the comments in an interview published by New York Magazine on Monday.
“Mark Zuckerberg called up and said, ‘I’ve never supported a Republican before, but there’s no way I can vote for a Democrat in this election.’ He’s a guy that, his parents, everybody was always Democrat,” Trump said.
“He said, ‘I will never vote for the people running against you after watching what you did.’ So I mean, people really appreciated it. I don’t — I think it was very natural what I did. I think it was natural,” he added.
The outlet added that after reaching out to Meta, a spokesperson responded, “As Mark has said publicly, he’s not endorsing anybody in this race and has not communicated to anybody how he intends to vote.”
The report comes following difficult interactions between Zuckerberg’s Meta and Trump’s past political moves. Trump was banned from Facebook and Instagram following Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump has since been reinstated to both platforms.
Zuckerberg recently spoke positively of the 45th president following the assassination attempt against him in July.
Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life,” he told Bloomberg in July.
“On some level as an American, it’s, like, hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy,” Zuckerberg added.
Zuckerberg was highly criticized during the 2020 presidential campaign over allegations that his “Zuckerbucks” program influenced the election toward Democrats. He has since announced plans to discontinue the efforts and has vowed not to contribute to political candidates or other efforts in 2024.
As RSBN previously reported, Trump’s campaign heavily urged Wisconsin voters to vote yes on the two ballot questions on Tuesday, April 2, which is the state’s presidential primary day.
“Keep our elections secure,” one campaign advertisement read.
The measures on the ballot directly pertain to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who funneled millions of dollars into Wisconsin’s 2020 election processes via a nonprofit, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL).
