Trump hosts top tech CEOs at White House: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Tim Cook & more

All right, I do want to take you out to a live image right now We do have President Donald Trump at this dinner that we were told would be closed press But as you can see we do have cameras Mark Zuckerberg right there seated next to the president

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Look, it's a long process I appreciate that, you know Your administration had a constructive dialogue and we were able to get it to some resolution. I would echo what Sergey said. I think the AI moment is one of the most transformative moments any of us have ever seen or will see

in our lifetimes. So making sure the U.S. is at the forefront and I think your administration is investing a lot. Already the AI action plan under your leadership, I think, is a great start. And we look forward to working together. And thanks for your leadership.

Great job you're doing. Incredible, really, job. Lisa, how about you?

Well, Mr. President, it's such an honor to be here and the incredible work that your administration has done to support the semiconductor industry. You know, we're building the brains behind all of the wonderful AI that's being built here. And I think the amount of acceleration that we've seen just in the few short months that the administration has been in place is really,

we're so grateful for that support. And we had a wonderful event this afternoon with the First Lady's support of the AI education plan. So I think the main message is we are all in to make sure that America wins the AI race.

And it's an honor to be here.

Thank you very much. Great job. You're doing two amazing job. What you've done in a short period of time. Really amazing. And I see somebody down there, Bill, from Microsoft that has done a pretty good job

to tell you what I had that stock. It was 28, and now it's about 500 and something. I don't know, it's, what a job you've done. Would you say a few words about your company?

Absolutely, Mr. President. Thank you so much, obviously, for bringing us all together, and the policies that you have put in place for the United States to lead. And one of the things that I think has made this industry unique is not only the innovation,

but it's the market access that you have obviously championed for us all over the world. And also the trust the world has on American technology. I think that everything that you're doing in terms of setting in place the platform where the rest of the world can not only use our technology but trust our technology more

than any other alternative is perhaps the most important issue, and you and your policies are really helping a lot. So thank you very much. And also I wanted to thank Madam First Lady for hosting what I think is perhaps the most defining issue, which is about skilling and economic opportunity that comes with AI. And so I deeply appreciate you, your leadership there as well.

Thank you. And a really amazing job you've done. Thank you. Bill, would you like to say a few words?

Sure.

Well, I'm in the second phase of my career, giving away all the wonderful money that Satya's good work has helped multiply a lot. But I think the thing that ties my first career that I still spend some time on because AI is so phenomenal, and my second career is innovation, innovating in health in areas like vaccines or gene editing. And the president and I are talking about taking American innovation to the next level

to cure and even eradicate some of these diseases. He mentioned polio, which is one that we're close. We don't need new science on that one. For some, like HIV and sickle cell, we do need new science, but the U.S. has the seeds that in the same way that Warp Speed took those seeds and put them together, I think something fantastic can be done. You know, AI for our foundation is that we want a doctor for everyone in Africa through

AI. We want farmers to have incredible advice and, you know, kids to have a chance to learn. So the work being done by the people at this table is changing the world. It's, you know, coming fast, so it's great, you's great we all get together and talk about how the U.S. can lead in this key area and apply it even to the poorest outside the U.S. as well as to our great citizens.

So thank you for incredible leadership, including getting this group together.

Thank you, Bill. That was very nice. Tim Cook, you've done an incredible job with Apple, a little company called Apple. And very, very few people have been able to do what you've done. Congratulations.

Please.

Mr. Cook. Mr. Cook, that means a lot to me. I want to thank you for including me this evening. It's incredible to be among everyone here, particularly you and the First Lady. I've always enjoyed having dinner and interacting.

I want to thank you for setting the tone such that we could make a major investment in the United States and have some key manufacturing, advanced manufacturing here. I think that says a lot about your focus and your leadership and your focus on innovation. I also want to thank you for helping American companies around the world. This

is a very key, key thing. And I really enjoy working with your administration on, on those topics as well, because I think they're so important to the country. I want to thank the first lady for focusing on education. There's nothing more important than education. Uh it is the great equalizer and always will be. And so thank you so much for including me. We're all we are all different in some ways,

but we all believe in the power of technology to improve people's lives. And that is the thing that binds us all together.

And Tim, how much money will Apple be investing in the United States? Because I know it's a very loud, and it's, you know, you were elsewhere and now you're really coming home in a big way. How much money will you be invested?

600 billion.

600 billion. All right.

It's a lot of pressure.

We're very proud to do it.

That's great.

Thank you very much. Appreciate you, sir.

Sam, you're a big leader of a very new industry at a very young age. You're a young guy. Do you want to tell us about your what you're doing? You told me things before that are absolutely unbelievable. So what are you doing?

First of all, to echo the comments of Tim and others, thank you so much for getting us all together. And thank you for being such a pro business, pro innovation president. It's a very refreshing change. We're very excited to see what you're doing to make all of our companies and our entire country so successful. The investment that's happening here, the ability to get

the power in the industry back in the United States, I think this will set us up for a long period of great success leading the world and I don't think that would be happening now without your leadership. We're very grateful to be able to build our company here, to build data centers here, to build the entire AI industry and lead the world in the United States. Echoing many other people's comments,

I think this will transform the world in a profound way. And I think it really will be to the United States advantage to be able to lead the world this way. The event that the first lady hosted today about education was really wonderful and watching what AI is doing even today for education

and so many other industries is really great. So thank you so much for enabling this. We will invest a ton in the United States and we will do our best to make sure that we continue to lead here.

That's right. Thank you. Hundreds of billions of dollars and it's going to be well worth it. And you have an unlimited market, right?

It seems like it.

Come to think of it, How much is Google investing?

We are well more than $100 billion in the next two years. It's $250 billion.

It's great.

It's great. We're proud of you. All right. Thank you.

A lot of jobs.

Good.

What about Microsoft? That's a big number.

Each year, we're close to in the United States, around seventy five to eighty billion dollars.

Very good. Thank you very much. Would anybody like to say anything? You have a lot of geniuses on my right. Some young, some not so young, mostly young come to think of it. Yes, please.

I just want to echo everyone's comments. I think we've been just very impressed with how this administration has really embraced AI. And I think that in addition to the infrastructure, the most massive infrastructure built in history, I mean, we're talking 10X the size of the Apollo program. I think also, to me, the most important thing is what AI will do for all of us. And I think that there's been a choice of whether to approach it with optimism. And I think that that's what I've really seen from this administration.

So I just want to say thank you for that.

Great job. You're doing incredible job. You're doing I know every inch that you're building and I can't believe it. They're big, the biggest buildings ever. You know, we talked about 100 story buildings, these buildings blow them away, right? So I just want to they're more lateral than they are up and down, but they blow everything away.

So congratulations. Would anybody like to say anything, please?

Satya?

Would you like to go?

Saffron? Saffron?

This is a most incredible time. AI is going to change everything. You hear all of us saying that. But the fact that you are our president and you recognize this right away and you've unleashed American innovation and creativity, all the work you're doing in basically every cabinet post in addition to what's coming out of the White House

is making it possible for America to win. Today's event that was spearheaded by our wonderful First Lady focusing on education is the center of where we need to go because it is all of these young people who can't be afraid of new technologies.

They literally have to embrace it and make America even stronger. And that focus was very, very critical. And I think this is the most exciting time in America ever, ever, at least that I remember. So thank you. Thank you for everything you're doing.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Say hello to everybody, Larry and everybody else. It's an amazing company that you're involved with and running. I just want to thank everybody for being here. I want to thank the media.

They've been very nice lately, although I'm still here. They made a couple of bad predictions. That was not good. I've never had that feeling before. I went to an event and people are coming up to me and saying, you're still here. I said, what do they mean by that? I didn't hear about this. But anyway, but I do. The press has been great in terms of this industry, and they understand the importance of it.

This is taking our country to a new level. We're leading the world. We're leading China, but we're leading the world by a lot. And we're leading it because of the people around the table. table, and all I can do is implement and make it a lot easier for you. And I'll be doing that 100 percent. So I just want to thank you all. Yes.

Did you have a question?

Go ahead, please.

Thank you, Mr. President. Tomorrow we have a jobs report coming out. The first since the BLS commissioner who you fired won't be there. A lot of people will be turning to you to see if you believe the data that's released.

Can you commit to saying that it will be credible?

The number I don't know, they come out tomorrow. But the real numbers that I'm talking about are going to be whatever it is, but we'll be in a year from now with these monstrous, huge, beautiful places, the palaces of genius. And when they start opening up, you're seeing seeing I think you'll see job numbers that are going to be absolutely incredible. Right now, it's a lot of construction numbers, but you're going to see job numbers like our

country has never seen before. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. President.

I have two questions for you first with after your phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky today. Do you plan to speak with Russia's President Putin in the near future?

What?

If you will speak with President Putin in the near future.

I will be. Yeah, I will be. We're having a very good dialogue. I settled seven wars. The one that I thought would be maybe one of the easiest. You know that feeling? You think one thing is going to be easier. Turns out to be a little bit tougher. But the one that I thought would be an easier one because of my relationship with President Putin and with Ukraine and everything else, I thought it would be the Russia Ukraine disaster where this week 7,014 people were killed. Soldiers, in most cases, soldiers, a few from Kiev, relatively few, but mostly soldiers.

And they're being killed at levels that we haven't seen since World War Two. And they're not American. They're not from any of the countries that some of you are from, but they're they're people, their souls. And we'll get it done. But that's turned out to be the most difficult of the group.

You know, I settled three wars. One was 31 years going. A lot of people killed 10 million people. Another was 34 and another was 37 years it was going on. And people said you can't settle them and I settled them. This one turned out to be more difficult.

But we'll get it.

We're going to get it settled. Senator Bill Caffrey said effectively, we're denying people vaccines. Do you have full confidence in what RFK Jr is doing?

Well, I didn't get to watch the hearings today, but he's a very good person. He's and he means very well. And he's got some little different ideas. I guarantee a lot of the people at this table like RFK Jr. And I do. But he's he's got a different take. And we want to listen to all of those takes. But I heard he did very well today. But it's not your standard. It's not your standard talk. I would say that. And that has to do with medical and vaccines.

But if you look at what's going on in the world with health and look at this country also with regard to health, I like the fact that he's different. Okay?

And have you discussed that with any of the leaders? Yeah, I have. I've discussed it with

the people here, chips and semiconductors, and we'll be putting tariffs on companies that aren't coming in. We'll be putting a tariff very shortly, you probably are hearing we'll be putting a fairly substantial tariff on not that high, but fairly substantial tariff. With the understanding that if they come into the country, if they're coming in building, planning to come in, there will not be a tariff. If they're not coming in, there's a tariff, fairly substantial.

Well, I don't know if they're building here. And for the most part, I think they're building it. That's probably why they're here for them. But like I would say, Tim Cook would be in pretty good shape.

No, no, please.

The back.

Are you urging or encouraging any candidates in the New York City mayor's race to drop out to clear the field?

No, I don't like to see a communist become mayor. I will tell you that. And I don't think you can win unless you have one on one, because somehow he's gotten a little bit of a lead. I would know I have no idea how that happened. But I'd prefer not to have a communist mayor of New York City.

And you know, that's what he is based on his policy. If you look at his statements in the past. So I would, I would like to see two people drop out and have it be one on one. And I think that's a race that could be won.

You can't pull your hair out of the top.

Mr. President, you'll be heading to the UK in a few weeks. Yesterday, Nigel Farage was on Capitol Hill. He was talking a lot about pushing back on censorship online. He was asking politicians like yourself, some of the people in this room, to really push back on censorship online. He was asking politicians like yourself, some of the people in this room,

to really push back on that. How concerning is that to you? And Mr. Zuckerberg, if I don't mind, if you don't mind answering, how concerning is that to you, the lack of freedom of speech online in the UK?

He didn't think he'd get that question. He's looking at me saying, how did I help? He's saying, how did I get that question? If you'd like to answer, free speech.

Sorry, I actually wasn't paying attention.

But, uh, one thing.

There seems to be a crackdown. The British government seems to be cracking down on social media posts, people being arrested for tweets, social posts. Just wondering how concerning that is to you, Mr. President and Mr. Zuckerberg.

This is the beginning of your political career. I will just say that in terms of UK, strange things are happening over there. They are cracking down and surprisingly so. And I've spoken to the prime minister and let's see what happens. But it is a different, a little bit different situation. I'm very surprised to see what's happening. And are you talking about the UK in particular?

Right? Yeah. I'm very surprised to see what's happening. Sad. And it's not a, it's not a good thing.

Yeah, please. The Press President, thank you.

America is first in artificial intelligence, but what are your concern in the alliance of Axis of Evil, China, Russia, and North Korea towards artificial intelligence, but also as military, sir?

Well, I have no concerns. We have the most brilliant people at this table, and nobody's close. And I spoke to world leaders, and they admit, and they admit privately, but they admit the biggest. They admit we have the smartest people. We have the greatest technology.

They can copy, but they can't create like we can create. We have the smartest people in the world right at this table. So thank you for the question. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you. I'll comment on that later. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you.