Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony with his wife Priscilla Chan on Monday. The Facebook founder also shared his photograph his wife on Instagram.
Apart from Zuckerberg, the meeting was also attended by other tech giants including Amazon's Jeff Bezos and his fiancee Lauren Sanchez, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Google’s Sundar Pichai.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was seated next to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Sunad Pichai, and Elon Musk on the same row at Donald Trump inauguration ceremony. The tech billionaires were seated behind Trump's wife Melania and children.
A massive section of social media users made comments with reference to Zuckerberg's ill-timed photo with Lauren Sanchez from Donald Trump inauguration ceremony.
“Keep your eyes up here, Marc [sic]”
“Your eyes are not wandering in this picture. Good job [sic]”
“We know Mark, anyone would have been caught peeping too [sic]”
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Lauren Sanchez's photograph went viral for all the wrong reasons.
One of the viral photos of the two showed the Facebook founder ‘oggling’ Jeff Bezos's fiancee during the event.
Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump's relation have changed drastically since US Presidential elections outcome. Zuckerberg used to be one of the major opponents of the businessman turned politician who had banned Trump from Facebook. In one of his books, Donald Trump had even warned the Meta CEO of putting him behind bars. The tremendous change in dynamics remained a heated topic of discussion among netizens.
That's why when, Mark Zuckerberg captioned the photo with his wife from Trump's inauguration with “Optimistic and celebrating 🇺🇸”, netizens were quick to remind him of his political stance nearly a year ago.
“Billionaires have no allegiance. They just cater to whoever is in power. Bill Gates donated millions to the Kamala campaign, but just had a 3 hour dinner with Trump a few days ago. It’s a business decision [sic],” commented a user on the post.
“This is what fascism and plutocracy looks like [sic],” commented another user.
“You used to be cool & inspiring [sic]”
“YOU ARE KOWTOWING BECAUSE YOU ARE AFRIAD OF HIM AND WHICH IS WHY YOU DONATED A MILLION DOLLARS AND GOT RID OF FACT CHECKING. HOW SHAMEFUL… [sic]”
“Mark, have you become a Republican? [sic]”
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