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All the President’s Tech CEOs | At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.


At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.

Mark Zuckerberg is there, and Bill Gates and Tim Cook and Satya Nadella and Sam Altman and on and on, a baker’s dozen or so of Silicon Valley’s most powerful people—cutthroat competitors all—united here to pledge allegiance to Donald Trump. Microsoft’s Nadella shouted out Melania Trump in particular for her leadership in “skilling and economic opportunity that comes with AI.”(The first lady launched a Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge last month, and hosted an education-themed AI task force meeting prior to the dinner on Thursday.) (Gilbert-Soto comes by that praise honestly; in addition to being an ardent supporter of Trump online, she has posted on X that “This world is a spiritual battlefield built on pagan roots, you can’t escape it,” specifically calling out Burning Man, Halloween, Christmas, and the US government as evil.

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