Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will reportedly donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund – following in the footsteps of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who did the same earlier this week.

Bezos’ gesture was first reported The Wall Street Journal dwarfing the $57,746 the company donated to Trump’s first inauguration in 2017.

Amazon will also make a second in-kind donation worth $1 million by streaming the inauguration on its Prime Video platform, a source told the newspaper.

Trump told CNBC on Thursday that Bezos is also traveling to Mar-a-Lago next week to meet with him.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is also expected to hold a meeting with Trump in Florida, while Zuckerberg paid him a visit last month.

During his visit, Zuckerberg reportedly personally demonstrated and gave Trump Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses and also met with Marco Rubio, the president’s nominee for secretary of state, as well as advisers Stephen Miller, Vince Haley and James Blair .

Bezos, the world’s second-richest man behind Trump ally Elon Musk, was once an enemy of the Republican, repeatedly mocking his holdings The Washington Post newspaper, but seems to have warmed up to him in recent months.

Bezos praised Trump’s Nov. 5 victory over Democrat Kamala Harris as an “extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory.”

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“What I’ve seen so far is that he’s calmer than the first time and more confident, more composed,” he told one recently New York Times DealBook conference, in which he expressed his “optimism” about the coming second Trump administration.

“I think it’s very interesting, I’m actually very optimistic this time,” Bezos told Andrew Ross Sorkin. “He seems to have a lot of energy in reducing regulation, and in my opinion – if I can help him with that, I will help him. Because we have too much regulation in this country.”

The moves by Bezos, Zuckerberg and Pichai are just the latest examples of big tech CEOs making conciliatory gestures toward Trump after his return to the White House was confirmed and his party secured control of both chambers of Congress.

Zuckerberg’s conversion to his cause is perhaps the most startling, considering Trump threatened the Facebook founder with prison earlier this year if he tried to influence the 2024 election.

The Meta boss criticized the 45th president’s approach to combating illegal immigration during his first term, writing in a 2017 Facebook post: “Like many of you, I am concerned about the impact of recent executive orders signed by President Trump.”

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Nevertheless, relations remained friendly until Zuckerberg was forced to ban Trump from his election platform following the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.

Trump explained this in his latest coffee table book Save Americapublished this summer that “Zuckerbucks” “should spend the rest of his life in prison” if he could be proven to have interfered in the vote.

But then the tech executive unexpectedly praised the former president for his response to the near-fatal assassination attempt he suffered on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, and called for Trump to rise from the podium bleeding from his right ear and give a fist bump. one of the sickest things I’ve ever seen in my life.”

The president-elect duly said on a Barstool Sports podcast that he likes Zuckerberg “a lot better now.”

Zuckerberg previously donated to candidates on both sides of the political divide, but rarely publicly supported it. He did not donate to Trump’s 2017 inauguration fund or Joe Biden’s 2021 fund.