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Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to be the latest tech industry leader to meet with President-elect Trump a month before his second term.
Cook will have dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, The New York Times reported, citing sources.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have already met with Trump, while Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is expected to meet him next week as the tech moguls seek strengthen ties with the incoming administration.
Cook, who had a friendlier relationship with Trump compared to other tech leaders like Bezos during his first term, was quick to praise Trump after his election victory last month.
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President Trump, left, and Apple CEO Tim Cook tour the Flextronics computer manufacturing facility where Apple’s Mac Pros are assembled in Austin, Texas, on Nov. 20, 2019. (AFP/Getty Images)
“Congratulations President Trump on your victory!” Cook wrote in X on November 6, the day after the election. “We look forward to collaborating with you and your administration to help ensure that America continues to lead and be driven by ingenuity, innovation and creativity.”
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From left: President Trump speaks with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during an American Technology Council roundtable discussion in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 19, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images/Getty Images)
FOX Business has reached out to Apple and the Trump transition team for comment on the meeting.
Trump said on the “PBD Podcast” last month that he wouldn’t let European regulators “take advantage of our companies” after saying Cook called him out, saying Apple had been fined $2 billion because its App Store didn’t allowed competition.
“That’s not going to happen,” Trump told Cook.
President-elect Trump, left, speaks with Elon Musk at the launch of a SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, on Nov. 19. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Cook and Trump spoke occasionally by phone during his first term.
Sam Altman, CEO of Amazon and Bezos’ OpenAI, are expected to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Meta has already donated $1 million to the fund.
By far the tech industry leader closest to Trump is SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk, who endorsed Trump in July after his assassination attempt and has stood by him numerous times since.
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Trump has also tapped Musk to co-lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
