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Elon Musk Claims "Was Invited To White House", But He Was Never On Guest List

Donald Trump hosted leading tech executives to discuss AI and innovation investments, excluding Elon Musk due to their public split despite Musk's $300 million support for Trump's 2024 campaign.

  • On Thursday, President Donald Trump hosted a high-profile dinner at the White House featuring top tech CEOs, originally planned for the Rose Garden but moved indoors due to thunderstorm predictions.
  • The event took place following a gathering of a recently established White House committee led by First Lady Melania Trump, which focuses on advancing AI learning opportunities for young people in the United States.
  • Attendees included CEOs like Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Sam Altman, while Elon Musk was absent amid his public split with Trump earlier this year and lawsuits against Apple and OpenAI.
  • Trump acknowledged Musk’s struggles, saying he has '20 percent of problems' to resolve and argued Musk must return to the Republican Party, while Musk vowed to create his own 'America Party' though no evidence shows such a plan is active.
  • Musk’s absence and the withdrawal of Jared Isaacman’s NASA nomination amid tensions with Trump highlight the widening rift between Musk and established White House tech alliances.
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U.S. President Donald Trump received more than a dozen top businessmen in the Artificial Intelligence industry at the White House this Thursday during a dinner marked by Elon Musk’s absence and in the midst of the failed inauguration of the renovation of one of the main government headquarters gardens. “I know them all indirectly, and some I know them very well,” Trump said at the beginning of the evening, sitting next to First Lady Melania Trum…

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The CEO and the founders of the most important U.S. technology companies at the White House between arrows and performance of strength: all offered compliments to the president, praised for his leadership. Absent excellent Musk and the CEO of Nvidia Huang

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They are partly among the richest people in the world and direct the most powerful corporations. Nevertheless, the leaders of the US technology industry bid themselves to the autocratic acting President Trump in a way that is not only irresponsible but also short-sighted.

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When US President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of America's biggest technology companies at the White House on Thursday night, one person was missing from the lavish dinner. Elon Musk, once Trump's ubiquitous advisor, did not attend.

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