The largest technology companies and heads of executives Millions donated the inauguration of President TrumpHe hosted a black concerts and dinner in his honor, allowed him to announce and take credit for new manufacturing projects with billions of dollars.
But after less than three months of the second president’s mandate, Mr. Trump is barely their luxurious gestures with preferences.
The comprehensive definitions imposed last week You will click on the Apple iPhone supply chain And made it much more expensive for Amazon, Maitha, Google and Microsoft for construction Giant computers for the power of artificial intelligence. The president cut federal funding to discuss emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Immigration stations have incited concerns that he would cut pipelines from technical talents.
The Trump administration also indicated A teacher experience to combat monopoly To dismantle Meta, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Since the opening, the common market value of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft has decreased by 22 percent to $ 10 trillion. The Technical Nasdaq Technical Index decreased 21 percent.
The efforts made by the court, Mr. Trump, are widely of the industry approach to its first administration, when many technology leaders were publicly hostile to the president. With a face around the face and urgency, the executive managers were hoping this time that Mr. Trump will show more respectable technology, including in his efforts to cancel industries such as energy and cars.
Instead, Silicon Valley leaders may be the great reading of how to succeed in Washington to Mr. Trump, according to democratic and republican policy experts.
Gigi Son, the former first adviser to the Federal Communications Committee in his administration, said that the relationship with technology executives with the president was a “one street.” “They give it everything, and it is not considered anything, which is good in this case.”
This did not prevent them from trying. Last week, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was at the White House To try to persuade the administration To settle a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Committee against Meta. Technology leaders, including Swandar Bishy, CEO of Google, have visited the White House in recent weeks.
Companies said they want to deal with Mr. Trump on a variety of issues and that they are looking into the long -term antiquities of his policies. Apple, Google, Meta and Amazon refused to comment.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
The history of hostilities between the technology industry and Mr. Trump dates back to at least 2016, when many technology executives Hillary Clinton supported the presidency and donated its campaign. After the election of Mr. Trump, technology leaders He criticized the ban on the president of the president And it has a company about Covid-19 vaccines.
Mr. Trump’s first administration took a difficult organizational position on the industry, Raise anti -monopoly claims against Google And Meta. He was robbed on social media and other Internet giants to control it and collect a lot of strength. He blamed the platforms to contribute to the loss of elections in 2020.
The General Technology Manufacturing Tone suddenly turned on Mr. Trump last year after he was injured in an assassination attempt.
In the aftermath, Mr. Zuckerberg called it “Bads”. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, praised Mr. Trump on “grace under the fire”. ELON Musk, which leads the Rocket Company, the Tesla electric maker and the X social media platform, Mr. Trump and continued to donate $ 300 million in his campaign.
After the elections, the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, donated alongside Meta, Google and Amazon, at a value of one million dollars for the opening. Many CEOs made trips to Mar-A-Lago, and Mr. Trump Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and at the opening, Mr. Musk, Mr. Bezos, Mr. Zuckerberg, Mr. Cook and Mr. Pachay appeared next to the members of the Council of Ministers.
“If you look at the opening, search for the people who were at that stage – here was from a world that was completely against me the first time,” said Mr. Trump recently in an interview with Clay Travis of Outkick, a sports site and a news site owned by Fox.
There were some benefits. Mr. Musk Now a close consultant For the president, critics say his work is likely to gain rewards for his proximity. Mr. Trump also has Executive executive orders Delaying the sale or ban of Tiktok, as imposed by a law passed last year due to security concerns about the Chinese parent company in the application, bytedance.
Although its federal financing was reduced, Mr. Trump opened the door to a persistent organizational union on artificial intelligence, which declared his top priority to overcome China in a race to lead global technology. Last month, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other technology giants have submitted suggestions, and management request To stay away from the road.
and American organizers It has been dismantled by government for almost a year on the encryption industry, which is a miracle volatile sector Fraud, fraud and theft. To benefit companies including Andressen Horowitz, A main investor in space.
But technology companies are still facing condensed pressure under the current Trump administration.
The new leaders appointed to the Ministry of Justice and FTC have not shown any signs of retreating a series of anti -monopoly suits offered against Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple.
Mr. Trump has chosen the generation of veteran lawyer and vocal technology critic to lead the Anti -Anti -Justice Department. Mr. Trump stressed the importance of its role in suppressing the strong Silicon Valley giants during his announcement.
“Big Tech has succeeded in a wilderness for years, suffocates competition in our most innovative sector, and as we all know, using its market power to take strict measures on the rights of many Americans, as well as small technology rights!” Mr. Trump said in a post on the social truth, the social media platform.
President Andrew Ferguson, who expressed his concerns about the strength of social media companies, as Chairman of the Federal Trade Committee next week, will lead to Mr. Ferguson, the anti -monopoly experience against Mita, in which the government accuses Facebook to buy Instagram and WhatsApp nearly a decade ago to monopoly in social networks.
It is not clear whether the efforts made by Mr. Zuckerberg to secure a settlement will be successful. But in the end, Mr. Ferguson said last week at a conference held by a technology incubator in Washington.
He said when asked whether a lawsuit would fall like the definition case: “The head of the president’s executive branch, and I think it is important for me to obey legal orders.”
He added: “I think the president realizes that we must implement the laws, so I will be very surprised if anything like that happens.”
Perhaps the biggest blow to the technology industry came in the form of a tariff last week. Apple, one of the most difficult companies, produces 90 percent of the iPhone devices it sells all over the world in China, where the definitions, which were already 20 percent, are expected to increase to 34 percent this week.
“These definitions will raise the prices of consumer and will force our commercial partners to take revenge,” said Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, a commercial group. “The Americans will become poorer because of these definitions.”
