Overview
- Excerpts from Regime Change published Thursday report that President Trump displayed and derided messages sent by Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to guests at Mar‑a‑Lago and the White House.
- The book recounts Zuckerberg sending a photo of a handwritten note from one of his young children and Trump playing a version of the national anthem performed by the so‑called J6 Prison Choir during a Mar‑a‑Lago visit.
- At a December 2024 Mar‑a‑Lago dinner Bezos is said to have criticized The Washington Post and in July 2025 he brought a White House pitch urging ‘contractor diversity’ in government space contracts to help Blue Origin.
- Elon Musk is quoted reacting with scorn, calling the outreach “first‑class groveling,” and the book says Trump told associates the tech leaders were “kissing my ass.”
- The White House issued a general pro‑business statement and none of the principal figures named in the book have publicly confirmed the specific accounts ahead of the book’s June 23 release.