Ted Sarandos will join the stream of business leaders making the pilgrimage to Donald Trump‘s home at Mar-a-Lago, a source confirmed to Variety.
Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, will visit with the president-elect on Tuesday. No further details of the meeting were immediately available. The meeting was first reported by CNN’s Alayna Treene.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago in late November, and Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple followed suit last week. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is expected to visit this week as well.
The incoming Trump administration has threatened to crack down on big tech platforms, particularly over perceived censorship of conservative speech. Tech hardware manufacturers also have much to fear from Trump’s threats to impose a 60% tariff on Chinese goods, and 10% on all imports.
Meta, OpenAI and Amazon also pledged last week to contribute $1 million apiece to Trump’s inauguration. Disney-owned ABC News also agreed to donate $15 million toward a Trump presidential library, as part of a defamation settlement announced on Saturday.
Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, in front of a crowd that included top executives from Goldman Sachs, MasterCard, Citigroup, Verizon and Target. At the event, Trump repeated his pledge to cut corporate taxes to 15% for companies that make their goods domestically.
Sarandos’ wife, Nicole Avant, gave $150,000 in September to support Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee. Sarandos has also given to Democrats in his own name in the past, though his contributions tapered off in the Biden era, and he did not give in 2024.
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