In Donald Trump's second term, the U.S. government is increasingly involving itself in private business — like a reported 15% tax it has placed on some chip exports to China.
During Donald Trump's first term, Apple CEO Tim Cook built a relationship with the president, in part via photo opportunities like this tour of a Texas plant that made Apple computers in 2019.
Joel Kaplan has been working for Mark Zuckerberg at Meta for years — here he is with Zuckerberg after visiting French President Emmanuel Macron in 2018. Now, he is going to be Zuckerberg's top policy executive.