Jeff Bezos the founder of Amazon was spotted arriving at Mar-a-Lago late on Wednesday evening December 18 to have dinner with Donald Trump the incoming president.
This was Bezos’s first dinner with Trump since the Republican candidate was re-elected and he arrived with his fiancée Lauren Sanchez.
Last week Trump announced that Bezos would pay him a visit at his estate in Florida.
Among the tech executives attempting to curry favour with Trump prior to his inauguration is the billionaire.
Trump’s team was told by Bezos that he would contribute $1 million to his inaugural fund the Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump and Bezos’s relationship has been tumultuous over the years but it appeared to get better after the tech tycoons newspaper the Washington Post broke with tradition by refusing to support any candidate in the 2024 election beyond Democrats.
In an interview at The New York Times DealBook Summit in New York earlier this month, Bezos stated that he is optimistic about Trump’s second term.
“I’m actually very optimistic this time around,” Bezos said. “He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. If I can help do that, I’m going to help him.”
“We do have too many regulations in this country,” Bezos added.
Trump also said he had warm feelings towards re-establishing ties with business leaders ahead of his second term.
“I want to get ideas from them,” Trump said about his relationship with business leaders after ringing the New York Stock Exchange bell last week after being deemed Time magazine’s “person of the year.”
“Look, we want them to do well.”
