Mark Pincus, the video game billionaire and “lifelong” Democrat, declared on Sunday that he is backing away from Donald Trump after “watching too much” over the past year.
Pincus, who founded video game giant Zynga, supported Republican candidates over Vice President Kamala Harris, despite previously donating as much as $1 million to President Biden’s re-election campaign.
“I vote for Trump,” he wrote on social media. “I’m a lifelong Democrat and have supported the past four presidential campaigns with $1 million each…I’ve seen too much this past year.”
Pincus cited the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Israel, the explosion of anti-Semitism in the United States, and the continuing war on free speech as reasons for wanting the 45th president to return to the White House.
“Israel is America’s most loyal ally and the only democracy in the Middle East. Iran is fighting Iran on seven fronts, but we can no longer trust America,” Pincus, who is Jewish, argued.
Pincus, who is estimated to be worth more than $1 billion, is one of a growing number of Democratic mega-donors trying to encourage Biden to drop out of the race, the Financial Times reported in the summer. .
He told the outlet that he had hoped the Democratic Party would host an open convention to choose candidates.
But after Biden resigned, leading Democrats quickly rallied behind Harris.
Pincus, 58, helped launch Zynga in 2007 and named it after his dog, Zynga. This software development company is best known for launching FarmVille a few years later.
California voters said they knew their vote in the deep blue state didn’t matter, but they thought it was “important” to focus on their position nonetheless.
“I know America will continue to be great even under the Democratic and Trump administrations,” he wrote on Sunday. “Still, I think America and Israel will be stronger under the Trump administration.”
