Trump hosts Apple CEO at Mar-a-Lago as big tech leaders continue outreach to president-elect

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The donation from Meta came just weeks after Meta CEO Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at Mar-a-Lago.
58% : Cook is the latest in a string of big tech leaders -- including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos -- who have sought to improve their standing with the incoming president after choppy relations with Trump during his first term.
46% : "He said the European Union has just fined us $15 billion," Trump recalled of his conversation with Cook, in an October interview with podcaster Patrick Bet-David.
46% : During the 2024 campaign, Zuckerberg did not endorse a candidate for president, but voiced a more positive stance toward Trump.
43% : Donald Trump hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook for a Friday evening dinner at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly.
38% : Trump has said he has spoken with Cook about the company's long-running tax battles with the European Union.
17% : During his first term, Trump criticized Amazon and railed against the political coverage at The Washington Post, which Bezos owns.
12% : The meeting comes less than two months after Trump said he spoke to Cook by phone, and soon after Apple lost its last appeal in a dispute with the EU over 13 billion euros ($14.34 billion) in back taxes to Ireland.

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