Amazon is planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, an individual aware of the matter informed CNN. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is predicted to go to with Trump in particular person within the coming days, as he and different tech founders search nearer relationships with the incoming president.Associated video above: Can Trump save TikTok? Specialists say it is complicatedAmazon will donate $1 million in money to the inauguration, and it’ll make a $1 million in-kind donation by streaming the occasion on Amazon Video, the corporate confirmed to CNN Thursday night.Bezos and Trump spoke over the summer season after the primary assassination try. Bezos publicly praised Trump on the time.“Our former President confirmed super grace and braveness below literal hearth tonight,” Bezos wrote on X on the time.Trump has been warming as much as tech giants. He has flaunted his non-public conversations with them in interviews and appearances and now heaps reward on corporations he as soon as blamed partly for his 2020 electoral defeat.The Wall Road Journal first reported the deliberate donation.Bezos joins different tech leaders in trying to foster a more in-depth relationship with the president-elect.Meta confirmed Wednesday that it donated $1 million to the inaugural fund, two weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at Mar-a-Lago. It’s a serious shift from the corporate’s earlier method to Trump almost 4 years in the past, when it banned him from its platforms after the January 6, 2021, rebel.Trump had additionally beforehand criticized Bezos over his possession of The Washington Put up and the newspaper’s protection of him.Trump tweeted in 2015, “If @amazon ever needed to pay truthful taxes, its inventory would crash and it might crumble like a paper bag. The @washingtonpost rip-off is saving it!”Extra just lately, the Put up was thrown into turmoil in late October after Bezos withheld the newspaper’s endorsement within the 2024 presidential race.“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,” Bezos wrote in an op-ed. “No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, ‘I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.’ None. What presidential endorsements truly do is create a notion of bias. A notion of non-independence. Ending them is a principled choice, and it’s the appropriate one.”The choice had deep ramifications for the newspaper. Members of the Put up’s editorial board resigned over the choice to not concern its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, and hundreds of readers canceled their subscriptions to the newspaper. Staffers additionally publicly expressed their dissent.Trump had additionally met with executives from Blue Origin, a Bezos-founded spacefaring firm. In his op-ed, Bezos denied allegations he withheld the endorsement to curry favor with Trump, saying he had no advance information of the assembly.Trump has additionally repeatedly squabbled with Zuckerberg through the years. The president-elect appeared to threaten the Meta chief in a ebook printed this 12 months.“We’re watching him carefully, and if he does something unlawful this time he’ll spend the remainder of his life in jail — as will others who cheat within the 2024 Presidential Election,” he wrote.This story has been up to date with further context and developments.CNN’s Elisabeth Buchwald, Jon Passantino and Liam Reilly contributed to this report.