Trump says Zuckerberg confided to him: ‘I’ll never vote for people

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Former President Donald Trump discussed the failed assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, and said he received a lot of calls afterward.

Among those who called, Trump named business magnate Jeff Bezos and Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who made quite a vow according to the 2024 Republican nominee.

“You know, I got so many nice calls from people I really don’t know. Jeff Bezos called. He said, ‘It is the most incredible thing I’ve ever watched.’ And he appreciated what I did, in the sense of getting up and letting people know,” Trump told New York Magazine‘s Olivia Nuzzi. “I said, ‘Despite the fact that you own The Washington Post, I appreciate it.’”

“Mark Zuckerberg called up and said, ‘I’ve never supported a Republican before, but there’s no way I can vote for a Democrat in this election.’ He’s a guy that — his parents, everybody was always Democrat,” Trump said.

Zuckerberg was reportedly impressed with Trump’s reaction to being shot in the ear — as seen in a now iconic photo, with blood streaked across his face the former president raised his fist in the air as Secret Service formed a human shield around him and said, “Fight, fight, fight!”

“Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life,” he told Bloomberg News.

“He said, ‘I will never vote for the people running against you after watching what you did.’ So I mean, people really appreciated it,” Trump continued. “I don’t — I think it was very natural what I did. I think it was natural.”

A Meta spokesperson countered the claim in a statement, “As Mark has said publicly, he’s not endorsing anybody in this race and has not communicated to anybody how he intends to vote.”

Interestingly, in reporting on a new Trump-authored coffee table book, Save America, Politico said Trump threatened Zuckerberg over the upcoming election.

“He told me there was nobody like Trump on Facebook. But at the same time, and for whatever reason, steered it against me,” Trump wrote of Zuckerberg, according to the outlet. “We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”

Trump was referencing a $420 million contribution Zuckerberg made in 2020 to allegedly fund election infrastructure. As Politico noted, Meta “has taken steps to assure conservatives it will not influence this year’s campaign.”

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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.