Amazon to donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund

Amazon plans to donate $1 million to President-elect Trump’s inauguration fund as founder Jeff Bezos and different tech executives work to strengthen ties with the brand new commander in chief, the corporate confirmed to FOX Enterprise.

The donation is being ready by Bezos forward of his go to next week at Mar-a-LagoThe Wall Road Journal first reported.

“Bezos is donating by Amazon,” a supply near Bezos instructed the newspaper.

Amazon will even stream the inauguration on Prime Video, the corporate confirmed, which is able to characterize an in-kind donation valued at an extra $1 million, the Journal reported.

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The donation is being ready by Bezos forward of his go to subsequent week to Mar-a-Lago, the Wall Road Journal reported. (Getty Pictures/Getty Pictures)

FOX Enterprise reached out to the Trump transition group however didn’t obtain a response.

Bezos is amongst tech business leaders, together with Elon Musk and Fb’s Mark Zuckerberg, who’ve sought rapprochement with the brand new administration.

Musk, essentially the most outspoken of them, supported Trump in July and remained near him.

Musk has donated about $250 million to pro-Trump causes to assist him get elected, and Zuckerberg additionally plans to donate $1 million to the inaugural fund.

Bezos and Musk are additionally each competing for NASA contracts by their house corporations, SpaceX and Blue Origin, though SpaceX is the first firm transporting astronauts to the Worldwide Area Station.

Musk was additionally chosen, alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, to guide the brand new Ministry of Government Effectiveness for the brand new administration.

Amazon will donate $1 million to President-elect Trump’s inaugural fund as founder Jeff Bezos and different tech executives work to strengthen ties with the brand new commander in chief. (Nathan Stirk/Getty Pictures/Getty Pictures)

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“I wish to ask them for concepts,” Trump instructed CNBC on Thursday about his assembly with the three businessmen. “Pay attention, we wish them to achieve success. We wish everybody, and we wish good jobs, improbable salaries. We wish folks to love, and after they get up within the morning, they stand up and say ‘I ‘wish to go to work’, I wish to go to work. We wish folks to work, and we wish them to work for good cash.

Bezos, who additionally owns the Washington Submit, and Trump have argued up to now, usually over the newspaper’s protection of Trump.

Nonetheless, the Submit sparked controversy forward of this yr’s election by deciding to not endorse a candidate, which some noticed as tacit help for Trump.

Musk supported Trump in July and has remained near him since. (Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures/Getty Pictures)

“If @amazon ever needed to pay honest taxes, its inventory would collapse and collapse like a paper bag. The @washingtonpost rip-off is saving it!,” Trump wrote in a tweet 9 years in the past.

Bezos blamed Trump’s affect in a authorized problem after the Protection Division awarded a $10 million cloud computing contract to Microsoft as a substitute of Amazon in 2019.

Amazon mentioned on the time that Microsoft’s contract “was not based mostly on the deserves of the proposals however moderately was the results of outdoors affect that has no place in public procurement.”

Most just lately, Bezos wrote on

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“Massive congratulations to our forty fifth and now forty seventh President on his extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has higher alternatives. We want @RealDonaldTrump each success in main and unifying the America we love all,” he wrote.