President-elect Donald Trump met Wednesday afternoon with a who's who of the tech industry. They came from Silicon Valley and elsewhere to Trump Tower in Manhattan, where they talked about jobs and innovation.
At the start of the meeting, which was open to pool reporters, Trump told the tech executives he was "here to help you folks do well," and referred to the "bounce" in the stock market since Election Day, saying, "Right now everybody in this room has to like me a little bit." (Though for the most part, tech companies have lagged behind the big gains.)
It was no secret that most of Silicon Valley backed Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, and Trump openly feuded with some tech companies during the campaign. He called for a boycott of Apple because of its refusal to help the government unlock an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter last December, and he also called on Apple to make its iPhones in the U.S.
And he has also criticized Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, over the newspaper's reporting during the campaign. In May, Trump called The Post a "toy" that Bezos used "for power so that the politicians in Washington don't tax Amazon like they should be taxed."