The actor, who played Mark Zuckerberg in the movie more than a decade ago, wondered why tech elites, including the Facebook founder, were so political instead of doing better things with their lives.
Actor Jesse Eisenberg, who played CEO Meta in the 2010 film “The Social Network,” suggested to HBO.at present“Host Bill Maher said the prominent tech billionaires who supported Trump's second term are not helping humanity in their new relationship with the world leader.
“I look at it from a very specific perspective, which is, if you're so rich and powerful, why don't you spend your days doing good things for the world?” Eisenberg said.
Actor Jesse Eisenberg criticized some of the tech elite and their new relationship with President Trump on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. (screenshot/”real time”)
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump established friendly relations with several tech giants, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and later Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
After Trump's victory — which Musk campaigned on — Bezos and Zuckerberg expressed a willingness to cooperate and even support the president's second-term agenda. Bezos declared himself “very optimistic” about a second term and pledged money to Trump's inaugural fund.
During the recent New York Times summit, Bezos said Trump appears to have “a lot of energy about reducing regulation.”
He added: “My view is that if I can help him do it, I will help him. Because we have a lot of regulation in this country.”
Zuckerberg, after donating nearly half a billion dollars to Democratic Party get-out-the-vote efforts in 2020 and participating in what conservatives have called social media censorship for years, acknowledged that he was inspired by Trump's resilience throughout the campaign.
After Trump's victory, Zuckerberg caused a sensation in the world of technology by announcing the end of his term Infrastructure for website validation. “We are going to get rid of fact checkers,” he said in a video from early January, “and replace them with community feedback, which is already used on X.”
The three — along with other top tech moguls — attended Trump's inauguration on Monday, a move that appeared to baffle Eisenberg, who also portrayed supervillain Lex Luthor as an evil tech brother in the 2016 film “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.”
Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos attend the inauguration. (Sol Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
“So it's hard for me to understand the details of what they're doing,” the actor said. He referred to his wife's activism, noting that her work contradicts the work of technological elites.
“You know, I married a woman who's like this amazing activist. All she thinks about all day long is: 'How can I help people who need it most?' So when I see these incredibly strong people, I just think: 'Why not You spend your day helping people?”, adding, “Why do you get involved in this weird stuff — stuff that I don’t really understand — and push away privacy concerns, and hurt people who are actually hurting marginalized people?”
He said again: “I'm just thinking: Why don't they spend every day helping people?”
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