Mark Zuckerberg wants to be buddies with president-elect Donald Trump after his epic comeback victory.

The Facebook founder had dinner with Trump at Mar-A-Lago on Wednesday - part of an effort to curry favor with the president-elect, who once suggested Zuckerberg should be jailed for election interference.

“It’s an important time for the future of American Innovation. Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members of his team about the incoming Administration,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.

Zuckerberg grovels

Zuckerberg was the one who initiated the meeting, the New York Times reported. The two exchanged "pleasantries" for the most part and Zuckerberg congratulated Trump on winning the 2024 election.

For years, Zuckerberg has been a top target of Trump's ire owing to Zuckerberg's heavy-handed role in the 2020 election - and Facebook's censorship of conservatives more generally, which included banning Trump's account after January 6th. The ban wasn't fully lifted until July of this year.

Ahead of the 2020 election, Facebook was part of an infamous Big Tech effort to censor legitimate news reporting about Hunter Biden's business dealings.

Trump also accused Zuckerberg of helping Democrats by pouring millions of "Zuckerbucks" into election administration that mostly benefited blue cities.

In a public U-turn, Zuckerberg apologized this year for Facebook's role in censoring political content, and he pledged to not make any more controversial donations - as Trump warned he could face jail for meddling in the 2024 contest.

Zuckerberg also praised Trump's courageous, "bad---" response to the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump raised his fist in defiance after narrowly surviving assassination.

Change of heart

After years of blasting Zuckerberg, Trump praised him in October for staying out of the 2024 election and said the tech titan had called him after the shooting in Butler.

In the wake of Trump's resounding re-election, Zuckerberg clearly senses which way the cultural and political winds are blowing, with numerous tech leaders - most prominently Elon Musk - embracing Trump as a force for innovation and positive change.

Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff, acknowledged to Fox News that Zuckerberg has a personal agenda - but added that Zuckerberg "has made it very clear about his desire to be a supporter of and a participant in this change that we’re seeing all around America, all around the world, this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading."

“Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity,” he added.

“And so business leaders, CEOs everywhere, they want to be an element, a supporter, a booster of making our economy prosperous, delivering for American workers and making sure that America is the most powerful, wealthiest, freest nation on the face of the Earth.”