2025.10.03

• Economic Security

Trump and America’s tech giants: Coexistence or collaboration?(Geoeconomic Briefing)

Captured in images that immediately went viral, U.S. President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in January drew the attendance of the chief executives of America’s tech giants, including Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla’s Elon Musk. All vocal critics of Trump in his first term (2017-2021), America’s Big Tech leaders struck a markedly different tone this time round, projecting an image of rapprochement with the incoming administration.