Whether you are disposed to view Donald Trump’s reelection as a MAGA mandate or a Biden administration policy and performance rejection, he — and the GOP majority Congress he ushered in — offer the only hope of lifting the nation out of a muddled morass of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
A recent Fox News poll shows that whereas 69% of Trump supporters saw Trump’s win as a mandate, 81% of Harris voters said it wasn’t.
Overall, a 54% majority of respondent voters (including 34% of Republicans, 64% of independents and 71% of Democrats) regarded Trump’s victory more as a referendum on President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ policies than a validation of Trump’s.
Either way, a 52% combined majority approved of Trump’s transition to leadership, a reversal of the 2017 poll when 54% disapproved, with recent approval of the former president up 8% even among Democrats.
When asked their priorities for the new administration without the aid of a list, a quarter of the top five focused on the economy/jobs (13%) or inflation and high prices (11%).
Explaining an apparent shift towards Trump by titans who control big political campaign coffers and public media messaging influence, popular ABC Shark Tank program panelist, and O’Leary Ventures chairman Kevin O’Leary observes there are two things they care about most: keeping their company tax rates low; and reducing economy-stifling regulations.
As then-President-Elect Trump observed during a Dec. 16, 2024 press conference, "The first term, everybody was fighting me . . . in this term, everybody wants to be my friend. I don’t know, my personality changed or something."
This changed sentiment is made particularly apparent by pilgrimages of many formerly critical top media CEOs bearing gifts to the incoming president’s inaugural fund.
Included are heads of Meta, Apple, Amazon, and Open AI that are currently facing antitrust lawsuits alleging monopolist practices at a time when Congress and a Trump presidency are expected to pass legislation addressing social media safeguards for children and regulations of artificial intelligence (AI).
X Corp. (formerly Twitter) and artificial intelligence firm XAI owner Elon Musk is a notable early exception to the belated Mar-a-Lago conga line, having put aside long-standing differences with Trump to arguably become his most powerful supporter.
Musk actively campaigned for Trump, donated hundreds of millions of dollars to kindred Republican candidates and causes, became a top-tier personal adviser, and currently co-heads a temporary new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tasked to cut government spending and waste.
In fairness, despite Apple CEO Tim Cook’s rocky relationship with Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign, the two mutually shared much more congenial views during the former president’s first term of office, especially regarding protections for U.S. companies from predatory international antitrust lawsuits.
Cook had previously hosted a fundraiser for Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and pulled all company funding from the Republican National Convention contest to protest Trump’s disparaging comments about women, immigrants and others.
Meanwhile, Trump had railed against Apple for not cooperating with law enforcement investigations in providing information from encrypted telephone messages.
Amazon founder and traditional anti-Trump Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has recently claimed to now be "very optimistic" about a second Trump term according to Musk regarding a "great Mar-a-Lago conversation"
Bezos, who has publicly supported reducing government regulation of news reporting, received a great deal of blowback from his newspaper’s staff for preventing its editorial board from publishing an endorsement of Trump’s presidential opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
As reported in U.S. News, Bezos has more at stake with the Trump presidency than just the Post or even his retail behemoth since Amazon has secured billions of dollars in federal contracts over the years relating to information technology.
Perhaps one of Trump’s newest fans is Meta (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg who transparently referred to him during his first 2016 White House campaign in condemning "fearful voices for building walls and distancing people they view as others."
Zuckerberg indirectly funded Joe Biden and congressional Democratic 2020 candidates to the tune of nearly a half-billion dollars while Facebook censored information about Hunter’s "laptop from hell" and banned Trump tweets following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
In 2020, the Trump White House filed an antitrust lawsuit against Meta, a case that will all but certainly continue into the new administration's term.
Zuckerberg has since announced Meta was ending its third party fact-checking program in an effort to get back to the company’s "roots" and "restore free expression."
Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller reports following a Mar-a-Lago conversation that Zuckerberg supports Trump’s economic plans and has "made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under Trump’s leadership."
Joining with other numerous corporate luminaries, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and Musk’s XAI rival ChatGPT, has declared, "President Trump will lead our country into the age of AI, and I am eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead."
Meanwhile, Altman may hope for Trump’s future support in a long-running legal dispute with Musk, Trump’s pick to co-lead DOGE, whom he has described as a "bully" over OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit business.
So yes, each of these and numerous other corporate media luminaries have good business reasons to endorse and celebrate Donald Trump’s return to national leadership, just as a good business economy benefits us all.
Congratulations America!
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture and the graduate space architecture program. His latest of 12 books is "Architectures Beyond Boxes and Boundaries: My Life By Design" (2022). Read Larry Bell's Reports — More Here.
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