Former President Donald Trump revealed the shocking details from his phone call with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg following the 2024 GOP candidate’s attempted assassination.
The 45th president said that Zuckerberg called him to apologize for censoring the iconic photo of Trump throwing his fist in the air after being struck in the ear by a bullet.
The Facebook founder called Trump immediately after the July 13 attempted assassination, calling him a “bada**” for standing up after being shot with blood dripping down his face.
Trump called him “brave” and confirmed that Zuckerberg would not be voting Democrat this election cycle— a change from previous years.
“Mark Zuckerberg called me – first of all he called me a few times,” Trump said. “He called me after the event and said ‘that was really amazing, that was very brave,’ and he actually announced he was not going to support a Democrat because he can’t, because he respected me for what I did that day.”
“I think what I did, to me it was a normal response. But I was called by Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, the day before on this same subject. And he actually apologized. He said they made a mistake, et cetera et cetera, and they corrected the mistake,” the former president continued.
Meta acknowledged it had incorrectly “altered” the iconic photo, which was supposedly meant for a similar photo that had also been viral on social media.
“This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the Secret Service agents smiling, and in some cases, our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo,” Meta’s public affairs director Dani Lever said.
Trump made it clear that no one from Google had called him after the tech giant had similarly censored the photo.
He criticized Google for being “very bad” and “very irresponsible,” predicting that Congress would soon shut down the search engine.
Last week, I wrote an article about how Google scrapped search results for the would-be assassination of Trump. The search engine failed to populate search results when users tried searching for the July 13 failed assassination attempt and instead found recommended search results for other high-profile figures who faced similar attacks.
While Zuckerberg declared he would not be voting for the Democratic candidate in November, he has not publicly endorsed Trump either.
