Recent actions by the Facebook founder suggest Mark Zuckerberg has designs on the American presidency.
HE’LL never make it, everyone said about the current character occupying the most important chair in the world. He’s a reality show star, for heaven’s sake. What does he know about running a
country? But, as Donald Trump has proved, any thing is possible. So is it really that far-fetched to imagine a young tech upstart taking control of the White House in 2020?
No matter how vehemently he denies it, Mark Zuckerberg (33) can’t seem to quash speculation he’s going to run for the US presidency in three years’ time. And the Facebook boss added more fuel to the rumour fire when he embarked on what looked suspiciously like a campaign tour.
The tech whizz announced in January he’d be going all-out to fulfil what he calls his personal challenge. “In recent years I’ve run 365 miles [587km], built a simple AI [artificial intelligence] for my home, read 25 books and learnt Mandarin,” he shared on Facebook (where else?).
“My personal challenge for 2017 is to have visited and met people in every state in the US by the end of the year. I’ve spent significant time in many states already, so I’ll need to travel to about 30 states this year to complete this challenge.”
While Zuck insisted the tour was solely to help him and wife Priscilla Chan (32) “lead the work at Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) so we can make the most positive impact”, he’s done a poor job at convincing the public and the media this is anything less than a campaign roadshow.
For starters, as tech news site Wired points out, he enlisted the services of a former White House photographer “whose images depict him, Obama-like, as a man of the people”.
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