Mark Zuckerberg said Trump is 'exactly the same in person as you'd expect him to be from the stuff he says publicly'
, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described what it was like meeting President Donald Trump. "He's kind of exactly the same in person as you'd expect him to be from the stuff he says publicly," Zuckerberg said.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.When Mark Zuckerberg made a rare trip to Washington, DC, last fall to be grilled by lawmakers, the Facebook CEO also met with President Donald Trump for a private dinner. It was the first time Zuckerberg and Trump met, and it left an impression on Zuckerberg. "One of the things that I found interesting is that he's kind of exactly the same in person as you'd expect him to be from the stuff that he says publicly," Zuckerberg said inThe details from that October meeting between two of the world's most powerful people are unknown, and Zuckerberg hasn't offered much when asked. In fact, the dinner went unreported until late November when reporters first heard about it."We talked about a number of things that were on his mind, and some of the topics that you read about in the news around our work," Zuckerberg told cohost Gayle King. Though Zuckerberg didn't offer much detail, he denied that Trump attempted to lobby him on the subject of political ads on Facebook. "No. I think some of the stuff people talk about or think gets discussed in these discussions are not really how that works," Zuckerberg said at the time. "I also want to respect that it was a private dinner with private discussion." Facebook has faced wide criticism for its stance on political advertising — the social-media giant doesn't fact-check politicians in political ads or remove false information from them. Competing social platforms like Twitter and YouTube have taken different stances:
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