Tech billionaire reveals he is endorsing Donald Trump in 2024 election despite being a ‘lifelong Democrat’

Tech billionaire Mark Pincus has revealed he’s voting for Donald Trump for president, despite being a “lifelong Dem.” is.

Pincus, who is worth an estimated $1.4 billion, founded video game company Zynga, best known for creating the game Farmville.

He announced his approval in a message on social media site

Israel is America’s most loyal ally and the only democracy in the Middle East. The country is fighting Iran on seven fronts and yet it can no longer trust the US,” wrote the billionaire, who is Jewish.

“Anti-Semitism in America is reaching levels not seen since World War II.”

Pincus said he made the decision to vote for the Republican candidate despite backing the past four Democratic presidential campaigns with $1 million each, including the Biden/Harris campaign.

The billionaire visited the White House in December 2023 and later donated the maximum amount of $929,600 to the Biden Victory Fund and more than $165,00 to the Democratic National Committee.

He was then among Democratic donors who encouraged Joe Biden to resign in July, saying the party needed to replace him with a younger presidential candidate.

But in his message to X, posted Saturday, he said he had defected and would now vote Republican.

“I’ve seen too much this past year,” he said.

He added that there “seems to be a war on freedom of speech.”

‘Happy MSM [mainstream media] is no longer trusted, but if our sources of free speech like

‘I know America will remain great under the Democrats or Trump. And yet I think America and Israel will be stronger under Trump.”

Pincus, who lives in California, added: “My vote doesn’t matter since I live in a one-party state. But I think it is important that I make my point of view known.’

Pincus said conflicts in the Middle East and a rise in anti-Semitism were the main reasons for his decision

Zynga is best known for creating the game Farmville, a social network farming simulation game in which players plow land, harvest crops, and raise livestock.

“I’m voting for Trump,” Pincus wrote on X

He joins a list of Silicon Valley billionaires who have expressed support for former President Trump as he seeks to be elected to a second term.

Elon Musk is perhaps the most glaring example, and Trump has even promised to appoint Musk head of a new so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ if he wins the election.

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, who was an early senior executive at Facebook and previously donated more than $1 million to Democrats, has also spoken out in favor of Trump in recent months.

Meanwhile, the Winklevoss twins have both donated $1 million in Bitcoin to Trump’s campaign, thanks to his support of cryptocurrency.

Jacob Helberg, an advisor to data analytics provider Palantir and a Democrat until about 2021, told Reuters in June, he had recently donated about $1 million to Trump’s campaign.

“In 2016, the number of Silicon Valley people I knew who supported Trump was an example of one, which was Peter,” Helberg said, referring to Palantir co-founder and conservative venture capitalist Peter Thiel.

‘Today I count them in the dozens, if not more than that. Over the course of the last six months, we have seen the dam break,” he said.