Top CEOs and Tech leaders have given the opportunity to be in the good grace of President Trump, a subject of another administration on Thursday night in the state dining room.
President’s economic policies amidst instability and instability in the Federal Reserve and Federal Reserve Unemployment is standingThe business community has led headaches, but has also served as a major incentive for the CEO to get facial time with Trump.
In addition to helping new global trade relations and navigating the volatile stock market, top leaders also want a part of data centers building, Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy and a part of promoting a hand in pending antitrust cases.
A senior Washington Lobist said, “Sometimes it is a bit of a circus, but he feels that he hears them. In this sense, he feels that he compares more favorablely.” “This is the only chance you have to get some of it. You have to kiss the ring, you have to show. This is the only way.”
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, OpenAII founder Sam Altman, and Apple CEO Tim Cook Tim Cook was part of a group of high profile takes and business leaders who went to the program on Thursday night, during which Trump asked him to say how much his companies are investing in America’s manufacturing.
Trump has sold his tariff plan, which shake how companies work and their lower-rich, how to bring back manufacturing in the US, as she pitchs companies to produce the way not to be hit with high tariffs.
In dinner, Zuckerberg told Trump that his company plans to invest at least $ 600 billion in the US through 2028.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said his company would invest $ 250 billion.
And, Cook said that his company would invest $ 600 billion.
The CEO around the table thanked Trump for hosting him and many of them also thanked him for his work on AI.
“Like Trump, business leaders are doing far more transactions than an ideological. To be on the right side of the transaction with Trump, business leaders must accept their invitation,” East Rape Chris Carney (D-Pa.) Said, Nosman LLP’s senior policy advisor. “The CEO has the responsibility of protecting its commercial equity. If they are not on the table, they can be on the menu.”
On Thursday, Cook was a second visit to The White House in a month- he joined Trump in the Oval Office in early August. Latest $ 100 billion Investment in American manufacturing. Trump threatened to hit Apple with a 25 percent tariff if he did not take his manufacturing to the US, but has been closed since then.
Nevertheless, while Apple has long manufactured most of its products in China, it has been a tough fight by Trump’s tariff. Cook He said he expected The company faced $ 1.1 billion in tariffs related to tariffs in the next quarter at the top of $ 800 million from the last three months period.
In addition, on Thursday, Trump asked Pichai, the execution of Google, about the victory when a federal judge held Google on his Chrome browser on Tuesday. However, instead of discussing the court’s decision, Pichai, while discussing AI, said that the action plan of the Trump administration is “a great start.”
Google on Tuesday scored a very important victory in a legal battle over its monopoly on online discovery, but the judge stopped the company from entering exclusive agreements that prefer its products and needed to share some data with the contestants. The Department of Justice argued Google’s dominance over the discovery that it could give a leg in the AI race.
In the race, the leaders along with the companies were also in the event, the first female Melania Trump took a few hours after hosting technical leaders in a white house round table. Greg Brockman, President of OpenaiI, Alexandra Wang, the founder of Scale.II and head of Super Intelligence in Meta, and Sunny Madra, President of Grocke at Dinner.
Nevertheless, some business leaders are struggling with the uncertainty of Trump’s years.
Carney said, “Many of my customers are only trying to understand how to navigate in a political environment.” “Many are affected by tariffs, [big, beautiful bill]And there is a possibility of another government shutdown. They are trying to play a game where rules are constantly in flow. ,
Senior Washington Lobist said that they advise customers about what rhetoric to use while meeting with Trump, especially on his tariff scheme.
The source said, “Don’t go to the White House and tell them why the President’s policy is wrong and these are facts and they need to do anything differently – which is not a successful result,” the source said. “You need to be able to say that ‘we understand the policies of the President and we support what the President is trying to achieve here and if he reaches it a little differently, he will be more successful.”
Nevertheless, Trump has successfully able to clamper the CEO to bring himself with him as he was elected back to the White House in November.
To a large extent, the way companies have created a face on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiative, which have been shed by many. Such an initiative was chased by the Biden administration, then Trump separated to a large extent after taking the White House.
The choice of Zuckerberg, Pichai and Altman was clear from the first day of Tram and Business CEO by Tech and Business CEO Being present Inauguration of Trump. Trump hosted various leaders for his second term for his second term like Gates like Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Tikok CEO Shoo Zee Chev Cheu.
White House spokesman Kush Desai said, “President Trump’s magnificent election day victory sent a clear message to the world: America is once again open to trade.”
He said, “Friendly relations with CEO and industry’s Titans at the country and abroad have been important to achieve trillions in investment for American manufacturing and technology, and business leaders know that they have a friend and fellow businessman who is occupying the Oval office.”
Trump also accepts the shift. After a meeting with Cook in December, he stated in a press conference that “the” biggest difference between his first administration and his second “is that people want to live with me this time. ,
“Earlier they were very hostile … and it is a very little hostile,” he said.
