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Meta Hires Former Trump Official, Senator’s Wife To Top Role

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Meta Platforms on Monday appointed former Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chair of the technology conglomerate, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Powell McCormick, who is married to Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick, served as President Donald Trump’s deputy national security adviser during his first term, and previously held several roles in the George W. Bush administration. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that Powell McCormick is “uniquely suited” to oversee multi-billion dollar investments due to her extensive background on Wall Street and in the White House.

“Dina’s experience at the highest levels of global finance, combined with her deep relationships around the world, makes her uniquely suited to help Meta manage this next phase of growth as the company’s President and Vice Chairman,” Zuckerberg, currently the sixth-richest man in the world, said in a statement via the company’s Monday press release.

Trump quickly congratulated Powell McCormick in a Monday post to Truth Social, saying Zuckerberg made a “great choice” in choosing her for the role.

“She is a fantastic, and very talented, person, who served the Trump Administration with strength and distinction!” the president wrote.

Zuckerberg, whose platforms have until recently long censored conservative viewpoints, notably dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in November 2024, shortly after the president won a second term. The tech billionaire was also a prominent attendee of Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, and has promised of bringing hundreds and billions of dollars of investment to the United States.

Powell McCormick, an Egyptian immigrant, spent 16 years as partner at Goldman Sachs, and was a top executive at banking company BDT & MSD partners. Her expertise in finance figures to serve as an asset for Meta as they look to expand data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The company says she will be a part of the company’s management team and will help guide its strategy and execution.

Powell McCormick is now the second high-profile former member of the Trump administration that Meta has hired in 2026. Curtis Joseph Mahoney, who served as deputy U.S. trade representative in Trump’s first administration, was hired on as Meta’s new chief legal officer earlier in January.

In 2025, the tech giant appointed Trump ally Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO, to its board, marking another hiring of a figure from the president’s orbit.