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

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[00:00] All right, I do want to take you out to a live image right now.
[00:03] 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.
[00:11] Mark Zuckerberg right there seated next to the president.
[00:13] [Laughter]
[00:16] Biden was the one that prosecuted that lawsuit.
[00:21] You know that, right?
[00:23] Look, it's a long process.
[00:24] Appreciate that, you know, your administration had a constructive dialogue and we were able to get it to some some resolution.
[00:29] I would echo what Sergey said.
[00:31] Uh I think it's the AI moment is one of the most transformative moments any of us have ever seen or will see in our lifetimes.
[00:40] So making sure the US is at the forefront and I think your administration is investing a lot.
[00:45] 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.
[00:50] Great job you're doing incredible really job.
[00:52] Lisa, how about you?
[00:56] Well uh Mr. President, it's such an honor to be here and the incredible work that your administration has done to
[01:01] that your administration has done to support the semiconductor industry.
[01:03] You support the semiconductor industry.
[01:04] You know, we're building the brains behind all of the wonderful AI that's being built here.
[01:09] And I think the amount of acceleration that we've seen just in the few short months that uh the administration has been in place is really uh we're so grateful for that support and we had a wonderful event uh this afternoon with the first lady's support of the AI education plan.
[01:24] So I think the main message is we are all in to make sure that America wins the AI race and it's it's an honor to be here.
[01:31] Thank you very much. Great job you're doing too.
[01:32] Amazing job what you've done in a short period of time. Really amazing.
[01:38] And I see somebody down there, Bill, from Microsoft that has done a pretty good job too.
[01:43] I'll tell you what, I had that stock. It was 28 and now it's about 500 and something.
[01:48] I don't know. It's uh what a job you've done.
[01:51] Would you uh say a few words about your company?
[01:54] Absolutely, Mr. President. Thank you so much uh obviously for bringing us all together and the policies uh that you have put in place for the United States
[02:03] have put in place for the United States to lead and one of the things that I
[02:05] to lead and one of the things that I think has made this industry unique is
[02:08] think has made this industry unique is uh not only the innovation but it's the
[02:11] uh not only the innovation but it's the market access that you have obviously
[02:13] market access that you have obviously championed for us all over the world and
[02:16] championed for us all over the world and also the trust the world has on American
[02:19] also the trust the world has on American technology. uh I think that everything
[02:22] technology. uh I think that everything that you're doing in terms of setting in
[02:23] that you're doing in terms of setting in place the platform where the rest of the
[02:26] place the platform where the rest of the world can not only use our technology
[02:29] world can not only use our technology but trust our technology more than any
[02:31] but trust our technology more than any other alternative is perhaps the most
[02:33] other alternative is perhaps the most important issue and you and you and your
[02:35] important issue and you and you and your policies are really helping a lot. So
[02:37] policies are really helping a lot. So thank you very much and also I wanted to
[02:39] thank you very much and also I wanted to thank madam first lady for hosting what
[02:41] thank madam first lady for hosting what I think is perhaps the most defining
[02:43] I think is perhaps the most defining issue which is about skilling and opp
[02:45] issue which is about skilling and opp economic opportunity uh that comes with
[02:48] economic opportunity uh that comes with AI and so I deeply appreciate you uh
[02:50] AI and so I deeply appreciate you uh your leadership there as well. Thank
[02:51] your leadership there as well. Thank you.
[02:51] you. >> Thank you really and a really amazing
[02:53] >> Thank you really and a really amazing job you've done.
[02:54] job you've done. >> Thank you.
[02:54] >> Thank you. >> Uh Bill, would you like to say a few
[02:56] >> Uh Bill, would you like to say a few words?
[02:57] words? >> Sure. Uh
[03:01] well I'm in the second phase of my
[03:03] Well, I'm in the second phase of my career, giving away all the wonderful.
[03:05] Career, giving away all the wonderful money that Satcha's good work is, uh, help.
[03:09] Money that Satcha's good work is, uh, help, uh, multiply a lot, but I think the the.
[03:12] Uh, multiply a lot, but I think the the thing that ties, uh, my first career that.
[03:15] Thing that ties, uh, my first career that I still spend some time on because AI is.
[03:18] So phenomenal, uh, and my second career is.
[03:21] Innovation, you know, innovating in health.
[03:25] Uh, in areas like, uh, vaccines or gene.
[03:29] Editing, and, uh, the president and I are.
[03:31] Talking about taking American innovation.
[03:33] to the next level to cure, uh, and even.
[03:36] Eradicate, uh, some of these diseases.
[03:39] Uh, he mentioned polio, which is one that.
[03:41] we're close, we don't need new science on.
[03:43] that one, uh, for some like HIV and, uh.
[03:47] Sickle cell, we do do need new science.
[03:49] But the US, uh, has the seeds that in the.
[03:52] Same way that, uh, Warp Speed took those.
[03:55] Seeds and put them together, I think.
[03:58] Something fantastic can be done.
[04:01] Um, you know, AI, uh, for our foundation is that we.
[04:04] know AI uh for our foundation is that we want a doctor for everyone uh in Africa.
[04:08] want a doctor for everyone uh in Africa through AI.
[04:11] Through AI. Uh we want farmers to have incredible advice and you know kids to have a chance to learn.
[04:13] incredible advice and you know kids to have a chance to learn.
[04:17] So uh the work being done by the people at this table is is changing the world.
[04:18] is is changing the world.
[04:21] It's you know coming fast.
[04:23] So it's great you know we all get together and talk about how the US can lead in this key area and apply it even uh to the poorest outside the US.
[04:25] all get together and talk about how the US can lead in this key area and apply it even uh to the poorest outside the US.
[04:28] as well as to our great citizens.
[04:32] So, thank you for incredible leadership uh including getting this group together.
[04:34] thank you for incredible leadership uh including getting this group together.
[04:37] including getting this group together.
[04:39] >> Oh, thank you, Bill. That was very nice.
[04:41] Uh Tim Cook, you've done an incredible job with Apple, little company called Apple.
[04:43] job with Apple, little company called Apple.
[04:46] Apple.
[04:47] >> Thank you, Mr. President.
[04:48] >> Very, very few people have been able to do what you've done. Congratulations, please.
[04:50] do what you've done. Congratulations, please.
[04:52] >> Thank you, sir. That means a lot to me.
[04:54] Uh I want to thank you for including me this evening.
[04:56] this evening. It's incredible to be among uh everyone here, particularly you and the first lady.
[04:59] It's incredible to be among uh everyone here, particularly you and the first lady.
[05:01] Uh I've always enjoyed having dinner and interacting.
[05:04] and the first lady. Uh I've always enjoyed having dinner and interacting.
[05:07] enjoyed having dinner and interacting.
[05:11] Uh 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.
[05:22] I think that says a lot about your focus and your leadership and your focus on innovation.
[05:27] I also want to thank you for helping American companies around the world.
[05:34] Uh this is a very key key thing and I really enjoy working with your administration on on those topics as well.
[05:44] Uh because I think they're so important to the country.
[05:47] I want to thank the first lady for focusing on education.
[05:51] There's nothing more important than education.
[05:54] uh it is the great equalizer and uh always will be and so thank you so much for including me.
[06:03] We're all we are all different in some ways but we all believe in the power of technology to
[06:08] believe in the power of technology to improve people's lives and that that is improve people's lives and that that is the thing that that binds us all together.
[06:12] And Tim, uh, how much money will Apple be investing in the United States?
[06:19] Because I know it's a very lot and and it's, uh, you know, you were elsewhere and now you're really coming home in a big way.
[06:27] How much money would you be investing?
[06:29] 600 billion.
[06:31] All right. It's a lot of
[06:33] We're very proud to do it.
[06:34] That's great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it.
[06:36] Thank you, sir.
[06:38] Sam, you're a big leader of a very new industry at a very young age.
[06:41] You're a young guy. uh do you want to tell us about your what you're doing?
[06:48] You told me things before that are absolutely unbelievable.
[06:49] So, what are you doing?
[06:52] First of all, to echo the comments uh 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.
[06:58] It's a very refreshing change. We're very excited to see what you're doing to make all of our companies and our our entire country so successful.
[07:05] the investment that's happening here, uh the ability to get the the power and the industry back in
[07:09] the the power and the industry back in the United States, I think this will set us up for, you know, a long period of great success, uh leading the world.
[07:14] And I don't think that would be happening now without your without your leadership.
[07:16] Uh we're very grateful to be able to build our company here, uh to build data centers here, to build the entire AI industry and and lead the world in the United States.
[07:26] Uh echoing many other people's comments, I think this will transform the world in a profound way.
[07:32] Uh, and I think it really will be to the United States advantage to be able to lead the world this way.
[07:36] Um, 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.
[07:46] Um, so thank you so much for enabling this.
[07:48] Uh, we will invest a ton in the United States.
[07:50] Uh, and we will do our best to make sure that we continue to lead here.
[07:55] That's right. Thank you.
[07:56] Hundreds of billions of dollars and it's going to be well worth it.
[08:00] Then you have an unlimited market,
[08:01] right?
[08:02] It seems like it.
[08:03] Come to think of it, how much is Google investing?
[08:05] Uh, we are well north of$100 billion.
[08:09] Uh, we are well north of $100 billion.
[08:13] In the next two years, it's $250 billion in the US.
[08:13] That's great. Great. We're proud of you.
[08:15] That's great. Great. We're proud of you. Very good. Thank you. A lot of jobs.
[08:19] Very good. Thank you. A lot of jobs.
[08:21] Yeah. Good. What about Microsoft? That's a big number.
[08:24] I would say each year we are close to in the United States uh around 75 to 80 billion dollars.
[08:26] around 75 to 80 billion dollars.
[08:29] Good. Very good. Thank you very much.
[08:32] Good. Very good. Thank you very much.
[08:34] Uh would anybody like to say anything?
[08:37] You have a lot of geniuses on my right.
[08:39] Some young, some not so young. Mostly young come to think of it.
[08:41] young come to think of it.
[08:42] Yes, please.
[08:44] I I I just wanted to echo everyone's comments.
[08:46] I I I think we've been just very impressed with how this administration has really embraced AI.
[08:47] very impressed with how this administration has really embraced AI.
[08:49] And I think that in addition to the infrastructure, the most massive infrastructure build in history.
[08:50] the most massive infrastructure build in history.
[08:52] 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.
[08:53] 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.
[08:55] program, I think also to me the most important thing is what AI will do for all of us.
[08:57] important thing is what AI will do for all of us.
[08:59] And I think that there's been a choice of whether to approach it with optimism.
[09:01] a choice of whether to approach it with optimism.
[09:03] And I think that that's what I've really seen from this administration.
[09:05] I've really seen from this administration.
[09:06] So, I just want to say thank you for that.
[09:08] administration. So, I just want to say thank you for that.
[09:10] Thank you for that.
[09:12] Great job you're doing. Incredible job you're doing.
[09:14] I know every inch that you're building and I can't believe it.
[09:16] They're big. The biggest buildings ever.
[09:17] You know, we talked about hundredstory buildings.
[09:19] These buildings blow them away, right?
[09:21] So, I just want to they're more lateral than they are up and down, but they blow everything away.
[09:24] So, congratulations.
[09:27] Uh would anybody like to say anything, please?
[09:29] Satcha.
[09:31] Mr. President,
[09:33] would you like to go?
[09:36] Sephra. Sephra.
[09:37] This is a most incredible time.
[09:41] AI is going to change everything.
[09:46] You hear all of us saying that.
[09:48] But the fact that you are our president and you recognize this right away and you've unleashed American innovation and creativity,
[09:50] 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.
[09:53] Today's
[10:13] it possible for America to win.
[10:16] 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.
[10:29] They literally have to embrace it and make America even stronger.
[10:38] And that focus was very very critical.
[10:41] And I think this is the most exciting time in America ever.
[10:44] Ever.
[10:47] At least that I remember.
[10:49] So, thank you.
[10:51] Thank you for everything you're doing.
[10:53] Thank you very much.
[10:56] I appreciate Say hello to everybody, Larry, and everybody else.
[10:58] It's a an amazing company that you're involved with and running.
[11:02] Uh I just want to thank everybody for being here.
[11:03] I want to thank the media.
[11:05] They've been very nice lately, although uh I'm still here.
[11:07] So, we have to
[11:11] He made a couple of bad predictions.
[11:13] He made a couple of bad predictions.
[11:13] That was not good.
[11:15] I've never had that feeling before.
[11:18] I went to a an event and people are coming up to me and saying,
[11:20] "You're still here."
[11:21] I said, "What do they mean by that?
[11:23] I didn't hear about this."
[11:23] But anyway, but I I do.
[11:26] The press has been great in terms of this industry
[11:28] and they understand the importance of it.
[11:30] This is uh taking our country to a new level.
[11:33] We're leading the world.
[11:34] We're leading China, but we're leading the world by a lot.
[11:36] And we're leading it because of the people around the table.
[11:38] And all I can do is implement and make it a lot easier for you.
[11:40] And I'll I'll be doing that 100%.
[11:42] So I just want to thank you all.
[11:44] Yes.
[11:47] Did you have a question?
[11:49] Go ahead,
[11:49] >> Mr. President.
[11:51] >> Go ahead, please.
[11:52] >> Thank you, Mr. President.
[11:53] Tomorrow we have a jobs report coming out.
[11:55] The first since the BLS commiss commissioner who you fired uh won't be there.
[11:58] A lot of people will be turning to you to see if you believe the data that's released.
[12:00] Can you commit to saying the data will be credible that the number I don't know they come out tomorrow but uh the real numbers that I'm talking about are going to be whatever it is but uh we'll be in
[12:02] data that's released.
[12:04] Can you commit to saying the data will be credible that the number I don't know they come out tomorrow but uh the real numbers that I'm talking about are going to be whatever it is but uh we'll be in
[12:06] be credible that the number I don't know they come out tomorrow but uh the real numbers that I'm talking about are going to be whatever it is but uh we'll be in
[12:08] they come out tomorrow but uh the real numbers that I'm talking about are going to be whatever it is but uh we'll be in
[12:11] numbers that I'm talking about are going to be whatever it is but uh we'll be in
[12:13] but uh we'll be in
[12:15] to be whatever it is but uh we'll be in a year from now when these monstrous.
[12:18] a year from now when these monstrous huge beautiful places the palaces of.
[12:21] huge beautiful places the palaces of genius and when they start opening up.
[12:23] genius and when they start opening up you're seeing uh I think you'll see job numbers that are going to be absolutely.
[12:27] incredible. Right now it's a lot of.
[12:29] construction numbers but you're going to.
[12:30] see job numbers like our country has.
[12:33] never seen before. Thank you very much.
[12:35] Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I have two questions for you.
[12:37] First, uh with after your phone call with Ukrainian President.
[12:38] Zalinsky today, do you plan to speak.
[12:40] with Russia's President Putin in the near future?
[12:44] near future? >> What? What.
[12:46] What >> if you will speak with President Putin.
[12:47] in the near future?
[12:49] in the near future? >> I will be. Yeah, I will be. We're having.
[12:50] a very good dialogue. Um I settled seven wars.
[12:52] The one that I thought would be.
[12:55] maybe one of the easiest. You know that feeling?
[12:58] I think one thing is going to be easier turns out to be a little bit tougher.
[13:00] But uh the one that I thought.
[13:01] would be an easier one because of my relationship with President Putin and.
[13:03] with Ukraine and everything else. I thought it would be the Russia Ukraine disaster where this week 7,14
[13:17] disaster where this week 7,14 people were killed.
[13:20] Soldiers in most cases soldiers.
[13:24] A few from Kiev relatively few but mostly soldiers.
[13:26] and they're being killed at levels that uh we haven't seen since World War II.
[13:31] And uh they're not American.
[13:34] Uh they're not from any of the countries that some of you are from, but they're uh they're people, their souls, and uh we'll get it done.
[13:41] But that's turned out to be the most difficult of the group.
[13:44] You know, I settled three wars.
[13:46] One was 31 years going, a lot of people killed, 10 million people.
[13:51] Another was 34 and another was 37 years it was going on and people said you can't settle them and I settled them.
[13:58] This one turned out to be more difficult but we'll get it we're going to get it settled.
[14:04] Mr. President Senator Bill Patri said effectively we're denying people vaccines.
[14:08] Do you have full confidence in what RFK Jr. is doing?
[14:12] Well, I didn't get to watch the hearings today but he's a a very good person.
[14:18] today but he's a a very good person.
[14:20] He's uh and he means very well and he's got some little different ideas.
[14:22] I guarantee a lot of the people at this table like RFK Jr.
[14:23] I do.
[14:28] Uh but he's uh he's got a different take and we want to listen to all of those takes.
[14:30] But I I heard he did very well today.
[14:32] But it's not your standard uh it's not your standard talk.
[14:37] I would say that and that has to do with medical and vaccines.
[14:39] 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.
[14:44] Okay.
[14:46] President, can you give us your latest thinking on semiconductor tariffs, sir, which you're considering opposing?
[14:48] And have you discussed that with any of the leaders down here?
[14:50] Yeah, I have.
[14:52] I've discussed it with the people here, chips and semiconductors, and we'll be putting tariffs on uh uh companies that aren't coming in.
[14:54] We'll be uh putting a tariff very shortly.
[14:56] You probably are hearing will be putting a fairly substantial tariff on not that high but fairly substantial tariff uh
[15:19] high but fairly substantial tariff uh with the understanding that if they come
[15:21] with the understanding that if they come into the country if they're coming in
[15:23] into the country if they're coming in building planning to come in there will
[15:26] building planning to come in there will not be a tariff
[15:27] not be a tariff >> so >> so >> if they're not coming in there's a
[15:29] if they're not coming in there's a tariff fairly substantial tariff
[15:34] well I don't know if they're building
[15:36] well I don't know if they're building here and for the most part I think
[15:37] here and for the most part I think they're building here that's probably
[15:38] they're building here that's probably why they're here for the but uh like I
[15:42] why they're here for the but uh like I would say uh Tim Cook would be in pretty
[15:44] would say uh Tim Cook would be in pretty good shape.
[15:45] good shape.
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[15:48] >> No, no, please.
[15:50] No, no, please. President, are you urging or encouraging any candidates in
[15:52] urging or encouraging any candidates in the New York City mayor's race to drop
[15:54] the New York City mayor's race to drop out to clear the field?
[15:55] out to clear the field?
[15:55] >> No.
[15:58] No. I I don't like to see a communist become mayor.
[16:00] I will tell you that. And I don't think you can win unless uh you
[16:02] I don't think you can win unless uh you have one-on-one because somehow he's
[16:04] have one-on-one because somehow he's gotten a little bit of a lead. I would
[16:07] gotten a little bit of a lead. I would know I I have no idea how that happened.
[16:10] know I I have no idea how that happened. But I'd prefer not to have a communist
[16:12] But I'd prefer not to have a communist mayor of New York City and you know
[16:16] mayor of New York City and you know that's what he is based on his policy if
[16:18] that's what he is based on his policy if you look at his statements in the past.
[16:20] you look at his statements in the past.
[16:24] So I would uh I would like to see two people drop out and have it be one-on-one.
[16:29] And I think that's a race that could be won.
[16:33] Mr. President, you'll be heading to the UK in a few weeks.
[16:37] Yesterday, Nigel Farage was on Capitol Hill.
[16:39] He really was talking a lot about uh pushing back on censorship online.
[16:44] He was asking politicians like yourself, some of the people in this room to really push back on that.
[16:48] How concerning is that to you?
[16:50] And and Mr. Zuckerberg, if I don't mind, you don't mind answering.
[16:52] How concerning is that to you, the lack of freedom of speech online in the UK?
[16:58] You didn't think you'd get that question.
[16:59] He's looking He's looking at me.
[17:02] He says, "How the hell?"
[17:04] He's saying, "How did I get that question?"
[17:06] If you'd like to answer free speech.
[17:07] Sorry, I actually wasn't paying attention, but there seems to be a crackdown.
[17:10] The British government seems to be cracking down on social media posts, people being arrested for tweets, uh, social posts.
[17:16] Just wondering how concerning that is to
[17:21] Just wondering how concerning that is to you, Mr. President, and Mr. Zucker.
[17:22] You, Mr. President, and Mr. Zucker.
[17:24] This is the beginning of your political career.
[17:24] Career.
[17:24] No, it's not.
[17:28] No, it's not.
[17:31] Uh, I will just say that in terms of uh UK, strange things are happening over there.
[17:32] They are cracking down and surprisingly so and I've spoken to the prime minister and uh let's see what happens but uh it is a different a little bit different situation uh I'm very surprised to see what's happening in.
[17:49] Are you talking about the UK in particular right yeah I'm very surprised to see what's happening sad it's and it's not a it's not a good thing yeah please.
[17:55] Mr. President, thank you.
[17:57] America is first in artificial intelligence, but what are your concern in the in the alliance of axis of evil, China, Russia and North Korea towards um artificial intelligence, but also as military sir?
[18:11] Well, I have no concerns.
[18:13] We have the the most brilliant people at this table and nobody's close.
[18:19] And I spoke to world leaders and they admit and they admit.
[18:21] leaders and they admit and they admit privately but they admit the biggest uh.
[18:24] privately but they admit the biggest uh they admit we have the smartest people.
[18:26] they admit we have the smartest people.
[18:26] We have the greatest technology they can copy but they can't create like we can create.
[18:30] We have the smartest people in the world right at this table.
[18:34] So thank you for the question.
[18:36] Thank you very much everybody.
[18:38] Thank you.
[18:38] Thank you very much.
[18:39] very much.
[18:39] What's your reaction changing it yesterday?
[18:44] I'll comment on that later.
[18:46] Thank you very much.
[18:48] All right, President Trump answering some questions there from members of the media about a variety of topics as he is hosting that dinner for several tech giants.
[18:59] You saw Mark Zuckerberg there with Facebook as well as Sam Alman with OpenAI and a lot of other big names.
[19:05] Bill Gates there as