Zuckerberg debuts ‘real Mark’ in push to woo Trump
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mark Zuckerberg wants Donald Trump to get to know the “real Mark." That’s the latest message the shape-shifting chief executive sought to relay to the masses as he pushes a frenzied effort to recast himself as a friend of the president-elect at a moment of peril and opportunity for Meta Platforms. On Friday, Zuckerberg met with Trump in Florida for the second time in seven weeks and torched Meta’s longstanding diversity policies.
Zuckerberg was at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in part to mediate a lawsuit Trump brought against Facebook and Zuckerberg in 2021 over the platform’s suspension of Trump’s account after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter.
Among the options for resolution is a monetary settlement. Also on Friday, he appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast to trash the Biden administration and extol the benefits of masculinity in corporate leadership. “I do think a lot of our society has become…kind of like, neutered, or like, emasculated," Zuckerberg said in an interview with the comedian and podcaster, who endorsed Trump just before the election.
“When you’re running a company, people typically don’t want to see you being like this ruthless person," he said. He added that people who have seen him competing in jiu jitsu have remarked, “That’s the real Mark." The day capped off the latest iteration of Zuckerberg’s inclination to “move fast and break things," a mantra he has used to steer himself and his company through crises for two decades. The personal and companywide shifts go back a decade.
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