Meta hired former Trump national security adviser Dina Powell McCormick as its new president, marking another move by the company aligning itself with President Donald Trump after his 2024 election.
Key facts
McCormick will be involved in all of Meta’s work, with a focus on partnering with governments and sovereign entities to build, deploy, invest in, and finance Meta’s AI and infrastructure, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.
Trump congratulated McCormick on Truth Social on Monday and praised the decision by Mark Zuckerberg, calling her a strong and talented individual who served the Trump administration with distinction.
McCormick most recently worked as vice chair at BDT and MSD Partners in Chicago. She also served as assistant secretary of state under former President George W. Bush and spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs.
She is married to Senator Dave McCormick, Republican from Pennsylvania.
Meta also promoted former Bush senior adviser Joe Kaplan as head of global policy last January and donated one million dollars to Trump’s inaugural fund.
Tangent
Zuckerberg previously spoke about the need for more masculine energy in corporate America, stating that business culture had become culturally neutered. He said that celebrating aggression slightly more could have positive merits.
Key background
Meta ended its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives shortly before Trump took office and shut down its fact-checking program. This followed accusations from Trump and his allies that Meta interfered in the 2020 election by removing inaccurate content and disabling accounts of prominent right-wing figures.
After Trump’s recent election win, several major companies rolled back DEI programs, including MLB, Goldman Sachs, Paramount, Bank of America, BlackRock, Citigroup, Disney, and Pepsi. The Justice Department warned it would investigate and penalize illegal DEI practices at private companies and universities receiving federal funds. Trump also issued an executive order eliminating DEI programs within the federal government on his first day in office.
