Former President Donald Trump said in a recent interview that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told him he "can't vote for a Democrat" in the upcoming general election, a claim the company has denied.
Trump, in a profile being conducted by Olivia Nuzzi for New York magazine, said he "got so many nice calls from people I really don't know" after his attempted assassination last July, including from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg.
"Mark Zuckerberg called up and said, 'I've never supported a Republican before, but there's no way I can vote for a Democrat in this election.' He's a guy that, his parents, everybody was always Democrat," Trump said.
Trump added that Zuckerberg said at the time, "'I will never vote for the people running against you after watching what you did,' so I mean, people really appreciated it. I don't — I think it was very natural what I did. I think it was natural."
A spokesperson for Meta said in a statement, when asked for comment about Trump's claims, that Zuckerberg "has said publicly, he's not endorsing anybody in this race and has not communicated to anybody how he intends to vote."
Zuckerberg told Bloomberg shortly after the attempt on Trump's life that he's planning on "not playing a significant role in the election," but he also said that "seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most bada** things I've ever seen in my life."
Zuckerberg added, "On some level as an American, it's like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight. I think that that's why a lot of people like the guy."
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