Mark Zuckerberg gifts $1 million to Donald Trump's inaugural fund

Just weeks after a highly publicized meeting, its been revealed Mark Zuckerberg is potentially kissing the ring and gifting Donald Trump's inaugural fund $1 million. 

Zuckerberg's sudden meeting with Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago in late November incited a firestorm of speculation on social media.

The donation is not only a reversal from past relations between Zuckerberg and Trump, it's a change in policy completely. 

Meta did not donate to either Trump's 2017 inaugural fund nor Joe Biden's 2021 affair. 

Onlookers are already accusing the Meta boss of pandering to the president-elect, after he threatened to throw him in jail earlier this year.

The donation comes on behalf of Meta Platforms, who confirmed the gift to WSJ Wednesday night. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to the Trump-Vance transition team for comment. 

Reaction on social media suggested that everyone from MAGA fans to liberals knew Zuckerberg had at last bent the knee to Trump.

'Kiss the Ring..1st to roll over gets the best deal. This is hilarious to watch, first he dpend 400,000K to keep him out now he thinks a million will absolve him,' wrote one Trump supporter. 

'Are we surprised? These CEO’s need to play ball game if they don’t want to deal with the child that Trump is,' added a liberal.

One referenced Trump suggesting he'd put the Meta master in jail: 'Zuckerberg had an epiphany that made him realize he better “kiss the ring” in order to avoid prosecution. The leopard does not change his spots!' 

'Mark Zuckerberg is everything wrong with social media tech bros. Dude donated $450 million to get Joe Biden elected and then turns around and gives a million to Trump's inauguration fund. Mark is a snake and I'll be a little disappointed if trump brings him into the circle,' wrote another Trump supporter. 

Zuckerberg put a full court press on the incoming administration between himself and his staffers over a two-day period at Mar-a-Lago after Thanksgiving, before which his team revealed they would be gifting the inaugural fund. 

Joel Kaplan and Kevin Martin, two of the company's senior policy executives, met with incoming Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

Zuckerberg did everything from meetings with Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller to a demonstration of the company's new Ray-Ban smart glasses, which he also gifted to the president-elect. 

It appears there's been a complete repair in the relations between the Facebook inventor and the president-elect. 

Four years ago, the 40-year-old famously banned Trump, 78, from the platform over claims the 2020 election was stolen.

That spawned several instances of censorship, leading Trump to paint Zuckerberg as part of a plot against him to rig the race. 

He later vowed Zuckerberg would 'spend the rest of his life in prison' if he did so this time around - setting the proverbial table for the pre-Thanksgiving, post-election meal.

Back in July, Meta Public Affairs Director Dani Lever confirmed instances of censorship from Facebook when it came to the assassination attempt, but revealed it had been an error that put the clamp on posts show the now-iconic image of Trump's fist raised in the air.

'This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo,' Lever wrote at the time.

'This has been fixed, and we apologize for the mistake.'

During the race, Zuckerberg notably did not offer any endorsement - but he did label Trump's response to the Butler assassination attempt as 'badass' when asked about giving one.

'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,' Zuckerberg, 40, said during an interview at Meta HQ in Menlo Park, California, in July.

'On some level as an American, it's like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight,' the Facebook founder added.

'And I think that that's why a lot of people like the guy.'   

He also complained how senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to 'censor' certain COVID-19 content during the pandemic - something he said he regrets.

'We made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today,' Zuckerberg said in August.

'I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction - and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.'

Zuckerberg also said that Meta would not repeat what it did in 2020, funding non-profits to fund local election efforts, which Republicans criticized as 'Zuckerbucks' meant to assist liberals. 

He and his wife Priscilla Chan gave nearly $420million to nonprofits that aided in the administration and infrastructure of the 2020 election , and heavily favored Democrat counties.

Zuckerberg, 37, and Chan, 36, donated $419.5million to The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), which the report says was given with specific conditions.

Using the donations, both CTCL and CEIR sent funds to local governments to implement administrative practices, voting methods, data-sharing agreements, and outreach programs for the 2020 elections.

Analysis shows Biden-winning counties were three times more likely to get funding from the organizations than Trump ones, and the Democrats were reportedly given a significant boost in key swing states through promotion of practices that have typically favored their vote tally, such as mail-in voting.