Mark Zuckerberg reportedly handed Donald Trump a deeply personal bargaining chip in Meta's bid for political favour: a photograph of a handwritten letter from one of his own young daughters, in which the child wrote that she 'looked forward to the golden age of America', echoing a campaign slogan Trump used throughout 2024. The claim forms part of a wider account of how Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos courted Trump after his election win, only to be mocked behind their backs.
The detail comes from 'Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump', a forthcoming book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, due for release on 23 June 2026. An excerpt obtained by WIRED ahead of publication describes Zuckerberg texting Trump the photograph of the letter, written by one of his elementary-school-aged daughters. Meta has not disputed the book's account of the letter or the broader characterisation of Zuckerberg's outreach to the president-elect.
