Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sánchez joined President-elect Donald Trump for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida Wednesday night.
SpaceX owner Elon Musk, who was also at their meeting, said later on his X platform that "it was a great conversation."
The Bezos dinner comes after the billionaire recently donated $1 million toward Trump's inauguration, reported Business Insider.
Bezos also owns The Washington Post and SpaceX rocket company rival Blue Origin.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have also met with Trump at his Florida home in recent weeks. Zuckerberg and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have also each donated $1 million toward the inauguration fund.
Trump said last week that Bezos would be visiting him at the mansion, reported the New York Post.
The Trump-Bezos relationship had been troubled over the years but improved in recent months after The Washington Post did not endorse a candidate in the 2024 election.
Earlier this month, Bezos said he is "optimistic" about Trump's second term in office, commenting at The New York Times' DealBook Summit that "he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. If I can help do that, I'm going to help him. We do have too many regulations in this country."
Trump, after ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange last week to coincide with his being named Time magazine's "Person of the Year," said he wants to "get ideas" from the nation's business leaders.
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