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

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