{"id":3069,"date":"2017-01-25T01:43:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T01:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/zuckerberg-says-hes-not-currently-planning-to-run-for-president.html"},"modified":"2017-01-25T01:43:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T01:43:34","slug":"zuckerberg-says-hes-not-currently-planning-to-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/zuckerberg-says-hes-not-currently-planning-to-run-for-president.html","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg says he\u2019s not currently planning to run for president"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Speculation that Facebook CEO Mark \u00a0Zuckerberg could run for president has been brewing in recent weeks. His personal goal for 2017 is speaking with\u00a0people from all 50 states.<\/a>\u00a0He fought to stop government service from\u00a0being considered a voluntary company resignation.<\/a> And on top of all that, he\u2019s\u00a0been distancing himself from atheism.\u00a0Though these signs scream politically ambitious, Zuckerberg told\u00a0BuzzFeed News<\/a>,\u201dNo,\u201d when asked if he had any plans to run for president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m focused on building our community at Facebook and working on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,\u201d he elaborated.<\/p>\n

Semantics are important here.\u00a0Zuckerberg didn\u2019t explicitly say he would never<\/em> run for president, only that he\u2019s focused right now on his current responsibilities and doesn\u2019t have plans\u00a0to run. Moreover, the question was limited to\u00a0the prospect of a presidential campaign. There are plenty of other offices and positions he could seek \u2014\u00a0A California governorship wouldn\u2019t be out of the question, nor would a White House Cabinet position.<\/p>\n

Politicians deflecting and flat-out denying speculation\u00a0about the prospect of future candidacy is a known political trope. For example, Hillary Clinton (among many others) led reporters to believe she wouldn\u2019t seek a position\u00a0she ultimately sought.<\/p>\n

\u201dYou know, in 2008, I hope I\u2019m going to be working for the re-election of John Kerry and John Edwards,\u201d Clinton told CNN<\/a> in 2004, four\u00a0years before campaigning against then Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n

President Trump himself has flip-flopped on more than one occasion about his interest in running for president.\u00a0After rising in the polls, Trump announced\u00a0he was going to forgo the 2012 election<\/a> because he wasn\u2019t \u201cready to leave the private sector.\u201d Even earlier, in the late 1990s,\u00a0Trump said on CNBC\u2019s Hardball,<\/a> \u00a0\u201cPeople want me to [run for president] all the time \u2026 I don\u2019t like it.\u201d We know how that ultimately turned out.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch surfaced the potential for Zuckerberg to run for President last month when it discovered other publications had misinterpreted the limitations on his ability to serve in government while running Facebook. Though it was reported that he could only serve a maximum of two years, TechCrunch found that if he owns more than 30% of the Facebook stock he did when he signed the stock reclassification agreement, or he has board approval, he can serve indefinitely in government while still controlling Facebook.<\/p>\n

An\u00a0unnamed BuzzFeed source explained that\u00a0Zuckerberg has his political hands full with the\u00a0Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Zuckerberg has not been shy about making the organization political. <\/a>He\u00a0brought on former Obama campaign manager and friend of tech David Plouffe to manage policy and advocacy. George W. Bush\u2019s former campaign manager, Ken Mehlman, is also engaged<\/a> with the group as chair of its\u00a0Policy Advisory Board.\u00a0The\u00a0initiative and the stock reclassification agreement are inherently linked as 99 percent of the couple\u2019s Facebook shares have been donated to the group.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that nobody knows where\u00a0Zuckerberg\u2019s head will be in a few years.\u00a0The United States is facing a massive amount of political uncertainty.\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s ability to push the country forward over the next four years will either open-up or rule-out the chances for another billionaire executive to gain\u00a0popularity.<\/p>\n

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Featured Image: Marcio Jose Sanchez\/AP<\/small><\/p>\n

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