'Acting out of fear': How CEOs and media execs are 'acquiescing to Trump in advance'

After President-elect Donald Trump won the United States' 2024 presidential race and enjoyed a narrow victory over Vice-President Kamala Harris, some CEOs who had been critical of Trump in the past reached out to him — including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

But some of Trump's more vehement critics — a combination of Democrats and Never Trump conservatives — have continued to warn that his return to the White House poses a dire threat to U.S. democracy.