The CEOs who are tearing up the policies Trump hates
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Three years after Donald Trump left the White House, he published a coffee-table photobook of his first term that showed him meeting with Mark Zuckerberg in the Oval Office. The photo carried an ominous warning.
“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time, he will spend the rest of his life in prison," Trump said in the caption, accusing the Meta founder of steering Facebook against him during his failed 2020 re-election bid. In recent days, Zuckerberg made moves seemingly intended for Trump to watch closely. Zuckerberg installed a veteran of the George W.
Bush administration as his head of global policy, and he named Dana White—chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship and a friend of Trump’s—to Meta’s board of directors. Zuckerberg’s most talked-about decision was the rollback of social-media fact-checking protocols that were introduced in the wake of Trump’s first election. The elections “feel like a cultural tipping point," Zuckerberg said in a video announcing the change.
From Meta to McDonald’s to Wall Street, America’s corporate bosses aren’t waiting for the Jan. 20 inauguration to start conforming with views favored in the Trump 2.0 universe. What began as a rush to dine with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago has snowballed into a series of policy moves that mark a shift in the business world.
Alongside the change in the White House, business leaders say the nation’s shifting legal landscape and cooling job market is spurring them to reconsider diversity programs, climate-change efforts and other Trump targets. Companies seeking Trump’s favor have plenty to gain. Even business leaders who opposed Trump’s re-election acknowledge privately that
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