Another billionaire chooses Trump. This time, it’s the historically liberal Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he was “impressed” by the president-elect.
“I had a chance to go have a long, and actually quite intriguing dinner with him,” Gates said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He noted that he talked to Trump for three hours, along with Trump aide Susie Wiles and Gates’s aide Larry Cohen.
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It’s a stunning remark from Gates, one of the richest people in the world, who previously said he donated more than $50 million to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. The news of the meeting comes after Trump claimed last month that the billionaire was begging to have a meeting with him.
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Holy shit that was depressing. I already agreed with your sentiment before scrolling for literal minutes just to see the wealth of Jeff Bezos and then after that, the real deal just began.
Keep in mind that that is out of date, bezos is now worth $60b more at $239.4b, with musk topping him at $433.9b. The 400 richest Americans now hold $5.4 trillion (vs 3.2 in the pixel scroller).
I would imagine updating that info in the tool is probably super depressing…
Might be why they haven’t done it in a while.
That, or the numbers are simply growing faster than the creator can keep up, which is just as depressing…