Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg visits Mar-a-Lago to see Trump

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg visits Mar-a-Lago to see Trump

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, just months after the tech entrepreneur publicly praised President-elect Trump following the July 13 attack.

Zuckerberg’s visit to Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Florida, was confirmed by Trump adviser Stephen Miller during an episode of “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News Channel.

“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter and participant in this change that we’re seeing across America and around the world with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading,” Miller told guest host Brian Kilmeade .

“Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity.”

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Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, on Wednesday. (Getty Images/Getty Images)

Miller added that the tech CEO has “his own interests” but sees Trump’s second term as an opportunity for “national renewal.”

“Mark obviously has his own interests, he has his own business and he has his own agenda,” Miller said. “But he has made it clear that he wants to support America’s national renewal under President Trump’s leadership.”

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In July, Zuckerberg praised Trump for his strong response to the July 13 assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“See Donald Trump “Standing up after being shot in the face and putting your fist in the air with the American flag is one of the sickest things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg told Bloomberg just days after the shooting.

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., speaks during a Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

“In some ways, as an American, it’s hard for me not to get emotional about this vibe and this fight, and I think that’s why a lot of people like the guy,” he added.

Zuckerberg’s visit to Mar-a-Lago is not the Facebook founder’s first interaction with the Republican leader. In August, Trump told FOX Business host Maria Bartiromo that Zuckerberg had called him to apologize for a mistake.

“So Mark Zuckerberg called me. First he called me twice. He called me after the event and said this was really amazing,” Trump said during an Aug. 1 “Mornings with Maria” interview on FOX Business. “It was really brave.”

“And he actually announced that he won’t support a Democrat because he can’t, because he respected me for what I did that day,” the Republican continued. “I think what I did…was a normal reaction for me.”

Trump added that Zuckerberg apologized after Facebook mislabeled a photo of him that went viral.

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a House Republican conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 13 (Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images / Getty Images)

“He actually apologized. He said they made a mistake … and they’re correcting the mistake,” Trump said.

FOX Business’ Michael Dorgan and Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.

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