When Donald Trump won the US election, the writing was on the wall for Nick Clegg at Meta. Now, just a few weeks before Trump’s inauguration, Clegg has stepped down from his role as president of global affairs at the social media giant. He will be replaced by his deputy and Republican Joel Kaplan, as the firm shifts to the right to fit in with the new regime.
No one ever had much idea what Clegg did all day
Clegg has tried to put a positive spin on his departure, tweeting that: ‘As a new year begins, I have come to the view that this is the right time for me to move on’. But it seems likely that the former Lib Dem leader – and perhaps his boss, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg – may have decided that the smooth, centrist liberalism of Sir Nick Clegg is about as relevant as a three-week-old Instagram post in Trump’s America.
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