The former Republican president won Donald Trump In the US presidential elections to return to The white house He becomes the first person since Grover Cleveland He won two non-consecutive presidential terms, that is, for about 127 years.
As the financial markets rose with Trump’s victory, billionaires and business leaders from various sectors began to interact with political developments, according to what the American website Quartz reported. These are the comments of some of them on the announcement of Trump’s victory in the elections:
Elon Musk
Elon Musk has become one of Trump’s closest allies over the past several months, even spending Election Night with him at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Musk is slated to have some level of role or influence in the next Trump administration, including perhaps leading the newly proposed Department of Government Efficiency.
“The people of America gave Trump a very clear mandate for change tonight,” Musk wrote in one of several posts celebrating Trump’s election victory.
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Mark Cuban
Billionaire Mark Cuban has been one of the campaign’s most vocal supporters Kamala Harriscurrent Vice President joe bidenHe appeared on a number of talk shows to support the Democratic candidate and criticize Trump.
Cuban has previously described Trump as “the most immoral and dishonest” ever, despite his initially supporting Trump’s campaign in 2016. In recent months, Cuban has also criticized Tesla CEO Elon Musk for his support of Trump, warning that the president… The former will eventually betray him.
The businessman had signed at least two pledges to support Harris, one featuring former and current top business executives and another designed for venture capitalists.
But Cuban wrote after Trump’s victory on the X platform: “Congratulations, Donald Trump, you won fairly. Congratulations to Elon Musk as well.”
David Sacks
David Sachs, a businessman born in… South Africa and the former CEO of the social media platform Yammer, Trump in a series of tweets late Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
“Trump was supposed to be a nightmare for the left, a brief respite between two decades of Obama and Biden/Harris rule,” he said in a post. “As it turns out, he is a transformational figure, a radical change that they could not stop, no matter what they threw at him.”
Sachs announced his support for Trump in June, and in a post, he mentioned a number of issues that he believed the former president would handle better than the current Biden administration, including the economy, the war in Ukraine, and the border.
Marc Andreessen
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen responded to Musk’s post describing America as a “nation of builders”: “It’s time to build.”
In July, Andreessen and his business partner, Ben Horowitz, endorsed and donated to Trump, saying the Republican nominee would be best for tech and cryptocurrency startups.
Last month, Horowitz and his wife said they would make a “significant donation” to the Harris-Walls campaign.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss
Bitcoin exchange Gemini was founded by twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who are vocal supporters of Trump this election cycle. They have not only touted his support for the cryptocurrency industry, but have donated millions of dollars to political action committees to support Trump’s re-election efforts.
“We are on the verge of a new American Renaissance,” Tyler Winklevoss said at midnight on Wednesday, and Cameron Winklevoss also celebrated Trump’s victory in a separate post.
The twins own about 1% of all bitcoins in the world, and became the first billionaires in the world Bitcoin In 2017, they are believed to own around 70,000 bitcoins.
The win for Trump, who has positioned himself as a strongly pro-crypto candidate (he even launched his own cryptocurrency), lifted Bitcoin to a new all-time high on Tuesday night.
Jeff Bezos
“Huge congratulations to our 45th and 47th president on his extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory,” Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and Blue Origin CEO, wrote on X on Wednesday. “No country has greater opportunities.”
Bezos added: “I wish Donald Trump every success in leading and uniting the America that we all love.”
According to the American website Quartz, the enthusiastic response to Trump’s victory comes after Bezos found himself at the center of controversy over his decision to cancel the Washington Post’s tradition of endorsing a presidential candidate, and at least 250,000 subscribers, or 10% of its 2.5 million customers, have canceled their plans. With the newspaper following the decision.
To make matters worse, the CEO of Blue Origin, Bezos’s aerospace company, met with Trump on the morning the Post’s decision was announced. Blue Origin has a $3.4 billion contract with the government, and competes with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
In 2019, Amazon accused the Trump administration of awarding Microsoft a $10 billion contract because of Trump’s “behind-the-scenes attacks” against it, citing the then-president’s criticism of Bezos and Washington Post reporting.
Sam Altman
“Congratulations to President Trump. I wish him great success in his job,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on the X platform.
Although Altman did not make a formal endorsement during the election cycle, he has largely supported Democratic candidates over the years, according to Quartz.
Altman, along with executives from Nvidia and other artificial intelligence companies, met with senior White House officials last September to discuss building data centers in the United States. The American Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute also announced a deal with OpenAI to work on making artificial intelligence safer.
“It is important that the United States maintain its leadership in developing artificial intelligence with democratic values,” Altman added on Wednesday.
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO said Mark Zuckerberg On his Threads platform: “Congratulations to President Trump on the decisive victory. We have great opportunities ahead of us as a country. We look forward to working with you and your administration.”
Although the two men’s relationship was not on the best of terms (Trump threatened Zuckerberg with “life in prison” if he helped the Democratic Party “steal the election, as he claimed happened in 2020”), Zuckerberg made a move toward Trump in recent months.
Zuckerberg has publicly moved to focus on neutrality and move away from the liberal causes he once supported.
In a recent interview, Trump said he likes Zuckerberg “much better now.”
Sundar Bitchai
The CEO wrote GoogleSundar Pichai: “Congratulations to President Donald Trump on his decisive victory. We are in the golden age of American innovation and are committed to working with his administration to help achieve benefits for all.”
Pichai, like many other tech CEOs, has made an effort to reach out to Trump recently, as his victory seemed increasingly likely.
“I got a call from Sundar, Sundar, and he’s great… and very smart,” Trump said at a rally last month.
During an interview in Chicago on October 15, Trump said he called Pichai out of frustration at the lack of positive stories about him, calling Google “just as rigged as our government.”
Trump has long attacked Google and other tech companies, routinely accusing them of bias and controlling the results that are shown to the public. In 2019, Trump claimed that Pichai was “working hard to explain how much he admires me” and the Trump administration.
Satya Nadella
“Congratulations to President Trump, we look forward to engaging with you and your administration to drive forward innovation that creates new growth and opportunity for the United States and the world,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday.
Unlike some of his colleagues, Nadella has largely stayed away from the election. While the CEOs of Google and Meta have reached out to Trump in recent months, Nadella has not endorsed a candidate or even spoken to Trump or Harris on the phone, according to the British newspaper The Guardian.
Microsoft’s only major presence in the election cycle has been its regular reporting on campaign hacking and disinformation attempts, as well as Nadella’s statement condemning the violence after the attempted assassination of Trump in July.
In May, Microsoft announced plans to build a $3.8 billion artificial intelligence data center in Wisconsin alongside Biden.
During the Trump administration, Nadella built a relationship with him, largely avoiding angering the then-president.
Tim Cook
The CEO of Abut rather Tim Cook Wednesday: “Congratulations to President Trump on your victory!”
He added: “We look forward to engaging with you and your administration to help ensure that the United States continues to lead and benefit from creativity and innovation.”
Trump’s relationship with Cook has been better than that of most other tech CEOs, and last month, he said that Cook was essential to raising Apple to its current high levels (in terms of market value), not the company’s founder. Steve Jobs.
Cook called Trump frequently when he was president, and sat on the workforce policy advisory board. Trump said on the PBD podcast that Cook called him to complain about the legal problems Apple is facing with European regulators, including fines. imposed on the iPhone maker.
In 2019, after Cook managed to convince Trump to obtain an exemption for Apple from a series of tariffs affecting Chinese imports, Cook presented the then president with one of the first Mac Pro devices that were manufactured in its new facility in the United States. United.
In an interview with Bloomberg in June, Trump said he found Cook “a very good businessman.”
