Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have dinner with Trump in Mar-a-Lago weeks after Washington Post refused to endorse election candidate
Billionaire Jeff Bezos was spotted walking into Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday evening to enjoy dinner with President-elect Donald Trump.
The Amazon founder arrived at the Florida mansion with his fiancée Lauren Sanchez for their first meal with Trump following his recent election victory.
Footage shared on social platform X shows the couple holding hands and walking next to Trump as they greet other guests.
The tech mogul wore a navy blue suit and white shirt, while his partner Sanchez put on a leggy show in a little black dress and stiletto heels.
Bezos is one of the latest tech giants to work with Trump ahead of his presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Bezos said he planned to donate $1 million to the new president’s inaugural fund.
The relationship between Trump and Bezos was rocky during the election but appeared to improve after the Bezos-owned Washington Post newspaper declined to endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 election.
This move broke with the publication’s tradition of historically supporting the Democratic party.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos was spotted walking into Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday evening to enjoy dinner with President-elect Donald Trump
The Amazon founder arrived with his fiancée Lauren Sanchez
Trump last night at Mar-a-Lago, when he hosted a dinner with billionaire Jeff Bezos
Bezos’ visit to Mar-a-Lago comes after Meta chef Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Florida last month to dine with Trump on his property.
Zuckerberg said he was “grateful” for the opportunity to meet the president-elect, in an effort to get into his good graces ahead of his return to the White House after years of hostilities between the two moguls.
Trump has previously launched several public attacks against Zuckerberg over his perception that he and other conservatives have been unfairly censored by Meta.
This included claims in Trump’s book Save America earlier this year, in which he alleged that Zuckerberg had plotted against him in the 2020 election, and promised that Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he would do again.
But the billionaires appeared to have put their differences aside this week in Florida, with a Meta spokesperson saying in a statement that Zuckerberg had been invited to the meeting by Trump.
“It is an important time for the future of American innovation,” the statement read.
“Mark was grateful for the invitation to dinner with President Trump and for the opportunity to meet with members of his team about the incoming administration.
Bezos is one of the latest tech giants to work with Trump ahead of his presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025
Bezos and Trump were last photographed together in 2017
Bezos’ dinner with Trump comes a month after tech mogul Mark Zuckerberg met the newly elected president. Pictured: President Trump meets Mark Zuckerberg. President Donald J. Trump welcomes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, September 19, 2019
Meanwhile, Tesla founder and billionaire Elon Musk has been at the forefront of Trump’s election campaign and transition efforts
Other tech leaders have also expressed interest in working with Trump.
They include Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok, who also met with the president-elect last week.
Meanwhile, Tesla founder and billionaire Elon Musk was at the forefront of Trump’s election campaign and transition efforts and was tasked with leading the newly elected president’s Department of Government Efficiency.