US President Donald Trump hosts a high-profile dinner with top tech CEOs at the White House

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US President Donald Trump hosts a high-profile dinner with top tech CEOs at the White House   #TrumpDinner

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00:00I think something fantastic can be done.

00:04AI, for our foundation, is that we want a doctor for everyone in Africa through AI.

00:12We want farmers to have incredible advice and kids to have a chance to learn.

00:17So the work being done by the people at this table is changing the world.

00:22It's coming fast, so it's great we all get together and talk about how the U.S. can lead in this key area.

00:30And apply it even to the poorest outside the U.S. as well as to our great citizens.

00:37So thank you for incredible leadership, including getting this group together.

00:41Thank you, Bill. That was very nice.

00:44Tim Cook, you've done an incredible job with Apple, a little company called Apple.

00:49Thank you, Mr. President.

00:50Very, very few people have been able to do what you've done. Congratulations.

00:54Thank you, sir. That means a lot to me.

00:57I want to thank you for including me this evening.

01:00It's incredible to be among everyone here, particularly you and the First Lady.

01:06I've always enjoyed having dinner and interacting.

01:10I want to thank you for setting the tone such that we could make a major investment in the United States

01:17and have some key manufacturing, advanced manufacturing here.

01:23I think that says a lot about your focus and your leadership and your focus on innovation.

01:28I also want to thank you for helping American companies around the world.

01:35This is a very key, key thing.

01:39And I really enjoy working with your administration on those topics as well,

01:46because I think they're so important to the country.

01:48I want to thank the First Lady for focusing on education.

01:52There's nothing more important than education.

01:56It is the great equalizer and always will be.

02:01And so thank you so much for including me.

02:04We are all different in some ways, but we all believe in the power of technology to improve people's lives.

02:12And that is the thing that binds us all together.

02:16And, Tim, how much money will Apple be investing in the United States?

02:20Because I know it's a very lot.

02:22And it's, you know, you were elsewhere, and now you're really coming home in a big way.

02:28How much money will you be investing?

02:30$600 billion.

02:31$600 billion.

02:33That's a lot of jobs.

02:33We're very proud to do it.

02:35That's great.

02:35Thank you very much.

02:37Appreciate it.

02:37Thank you, sir.

02:38Sam, you're a big leader of a very new industry at a very young age.

02:42You're a young guy.

02:44Do you want to tell us about what you're doing?

02:47You told me things before that are absolutely unbelievable.

02:50So what are you doing?

02:52First of all, to echo the comments of Tim and others,

02:55thank you so much for getting us all together.

02:56And thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president.

03:00It's a very refreshing change.

03:01We're very excited to see what you're doing to make all of our companies

03:05and our entire country so successful.

03:07The investment that's happening here,

03:09the ability to get the power and the industry back in the United States,

03:12I think this will set us up for, you know,

03:14a long period of great success leading the world.

03:16And I don't think that would be happening now without your leadership.

03:20We're very grateful to be able to build our company here,

03:22to build data centers here,

03:24to build the entire AI industry and lead the world in the United States.

03:28Echoing many other people's comments,

03:30I think this will transform the world in a profound way.

03:33And I think it really will be to the United States' advantage

03:36to be able to lead the world this way.

03:39The event that the First Lady posted today about education was really wonderful.

03:42And watching what AI is doing, even today, for education

03:45and so many other industries is really great.

03:48So thank you so much for enabling this.

03:50We will invest a ton in the United States.

03:52And we will do our best to make sure that we continue to lead here.

03:57That's right. Thank you.

03:58Hundreds of billions of dollars, and it's going to be well worth it.

04:01And you have an unlimited market, right?

04:04It seems like it.

04:05Come to think of it, how much is Google investing?

04:08We are, well, not 100 billion dollars.

04:12In the next two years, it's 250 billion dollars.

04:15That's great.

04:16That's great.

04:17That's great.

04:17We're proud of you.

04:18Very good.

04:19A lot of jobs.

04:21Yeah, good.

04:22What about Microsoft?

04:23That's a big number.

04:26Each year, we are close to, in the United States,

04:29around 75 to 80 billion dollars.

04:31Good.

04:32Very good.

04:33Thank you very much.

04:33Absolutely.

04:34Would anybody like to say anything?

04:36You have a lot of geniuses on my right.

04:39Some young, some not so young.

04:41Mostly young, come to think of it.

04:44Yes, please.

04:45I just wanted to echo everyone's comments.

04:47I think we've been just very impressed with how this administration has really embraced AI.

04:51And I think that, in addition to the infrastructure,

04:54the most massive infrastructure built in history,

04:55I mean, we're talking 10x the size of the Apollo program,

04:58I think also, to me, the most important thing is what AI will do for all of us.

05:02And I think that there's been a choice of whether to approach it with optimism.

05:06And I think that that's what I've really seen from this administration.

05:09So I just wanted to say thank you for that.

05:12Great job you're doing.

05:14Incredible job you're doing.

05:15I know every inch of your building, and I can't believe it.

05:18They're big.

05:19The biggest buildings ever.

05:20You know, we talked about 100-story buildings.

05:22These buildings blow them away, right?

05:24So I just want to – they're more lateral than they are up and down,

05:29but they blow everything away, so congratulations.

05:33Would anybody like to say anything, please?

05:36Satya?

05:38Mr. President.

05:39Would you like to go?

05:40Safra?

05:44This is a most incredible time.

05:47AI is going to change everything.

05:49You hear all of us saying that.

05:51But the fact that you are our president, and you recognize this right away,

05:57and you've unleashed American innovation and creativity,

06:02all the work you're doing in basically every cabinet post,

06:07in addition to what's coming out of the White House,

06:10is making it possible for America to win.

06:14Today's event that was spearheaded by our wonderful First Lady focusing on education

06:21is the center of where we need to go,

06:26because it is all of these young people who can't be afraid of new technologies.

06:32They literally have to embrace it and make America even stronger.

06:38And that focus was very, very critical.

06:41And I think this is the most exciting time in America ever,

06:47ever, at least that I remember.

06:49So thank you.

06:50Thank you for everything you're doing.

06:53Thank you very much.

06:55I appreciate saying hello to everybody, Larry and everybody else.

06:58It's an amazing company that you're involved with and running.

07:03I just want to thank everybody for being here.

07:06I want to thank the media.

07:07They've been very nice lately,

07:08although I'm still here.

07:11They made a couple of bad predictions.

07:16That was not good.

07:17I've never had that feeling before.

07:19I went to an event and people are coming up to me and saying,

07:22you're still here.

07:23I said, what do they mean by that?

07:25I didn't hear about this.

07:26But anyway, but I do.

07:28The press has been great in terms of this industry

07:30and they understand the importance of it.

07:33This is taking our country to a new level.

07:36We're leading the world.

07:37We're leading China,

07:38but we're leading the world by a lot

07:40and we're leading it because of the people around the table.

07:42And all I can do is implement

07:44and make it a lot easier for you.

07:46And I'll be doing that 100 percent.

07:49So I just want to thank you all.

07:51Yes.

07:51Did you have a question?

07:52Go ahead, please.

07:54Thank you, Mr. President.

07:55Tomorrow we have a jobs report coming out,

07:57the first since the BLS commissioner who you fired won't be there.

08:02A lot of people will be turning to you

08:04to see if you believe the data that's released.

08:06Can you commit to saying the data will be credible?

08:09Well, we're going to have to see what the numbers –

08:10I don't know.

08:10They come out tomorrow.

08:11But the real numbers that I'm talking about

08:15are going to be whatever it is,

08:17but we'll be in a year from now

08:19when these monstrous, huge, beautiful places,

08:22the palaces of genius.

08:24And when they start opening up,

08:26you're seeing – I think you'll see job numbers

08:28that are going to be absolutely incredible.

08:30Right now it's a lot of construction numbers,

08:32but you're going to see job numbers

08:34like our country has never seen before.

08:36Thank you very much.

08:37Thank you, Mr. President.

08:39I have two questions for you.

08:40First, after your phone call

08:42with Ukrainian President Zelensky today,

08:44do you plan to speak with Russia's President Putin

08:46in the near future?

08:48What?

08:49If you will speak with President Putin in the near future.

08:52I will be.

08:53Yeah, I will be.

08:54We're having a very good dialogue.

08:56I settled seven wars,

08:59the one that I thought would be maybe one of the easiest.

09:02You know that feeling?

09:02You think one thing is going to be easier.

09:04It turns out to be a little bit tougher.

09:06But the one that I thought would be an easier one

09:09because of my relationship with President Putin

09:12and with Ukraine and everything else,

09:13I thought it would be the Russia-Ukraine disaster,

09:16where this week 7,014 people were killed.

09:21Soldiers, in most cases soldiers.

09:23A few from Kiev, relatively few, but mostly soldiers.

09:28And they're being killed at levels

09:30that we haven't seen since World War II.

09:33And they're not American.

09:35They're not from any of the countries that some of you are from,

09:39but they're people, they're souls.

09:42And we'll get it done.

09:44But that's turned out to be the most difficult of the group.

09:48You know, I settled three wars.

09:50One was 31 years going.

09:52A lot of people killed 10 million people.

09:54Another was 34.

09:55And another was 37 years it was going on.

09:58And people said, you can't settle them.

10:01And I settled them.

10:02This one turned out to be more difficult.

10:04But we'll get it.

10:05We're going to get it settled.

10:06Mr. President, Senator Bill Cassidy said,

10:09effectively, we're denying people vaccines.

10:11Do you have full confidence in what RFK Jr. is doing?

10:14Well, I didn't get to watch the hearings today.

10:17But he's a very good person.

10:21He's, and he means very well.

10:23And he's got some little different ideas.

10:24I guarantee a lot of the people at this table like RFK Jr.

10:27And I do.

10:28But he's, he's got a different take.

10:31And we want to listen to all of those takes.

10:33But I, I heard he did very well today.

10:36But it's not your standard, it's not your standard talk,

10:40I would say that.

10:41And that has to do with medical and vaccines.

10:44But if you look at what's going on in the world with health

10:47and look at this country also with regard to health,

10:50I like the fact that he's different.

10:52Okay.

10:52Mr. President, did you give us your latest thinking

10:56on semiconductor tariffs, sir, which you're considering imposing?

10:59And have you discussed that with any of the leaders?

11:02Yeah, I have.

11:02I've discussed it with the people here.

11:04Chips and semiconductors.

11:06And we'll be putting tariffs on companies that aren't coming in.

11:11We'll be putting a tariff very shortly.

11:13You probably are hearing we'll be putting a fairly substantial tariff on.

11:18Not that high, but fairly substantial tariff.

11:21With the understanding that if they come into the country,

11:24if they're coming in, building, planning to come in,

11:28there will not be a tariff.

11:29If they're not coming in, there's a fairly substantial tariff.

11:37Well, I don't know.

11:38If they're building here, and for the most part, I think they're building here,

11:40that's probably why they're here for them.

11:42But, like I would say, Tim Cook would be in pretty good shape.

11:47Mr. President, are you urging or encouraging any candidates in the New York City mayor's race

11:56to drop out to clear the field?

11:58No, I don't like to see a communist become mayor, I will tell you that.

12:02And I don't think you can win unless you have one-on-one,

12:06because somehow he's gotten a little bit of a lead.

12:08I have no idea how that happened.

12:12But I'd prefer not to have a communist mayor of New York City.

12:18And, you know, that's what he is, based on his policy,

12:20if you look at his statements in the past.

12:23So I would like to see two people drop out and have it be one-on-one.

12:30And I think that's a race that could be won.

12:34Mr. President, you'll be heading to the U.K. in a few weeks.

12:38Yesterday, Nigel Farage was on Capitol Hill.

12:41He really was talking a lot about pushing back on censorship online.

12:46He was asking politicians like yourself, some of the people in this room,

12:49to really push back on that.

12:51How concerning is that to you?

12:52And, Mr. Zuckerberg, if I don't mind, you don't mind answering.

12:56How concerning is that to you, the lack of freedom of speech online in the U.K.?

13:00He didn't think you'd get that question.

13:03He's looking at me saying, how did I get that question?

13:08If you'd like to answer, free speech.

13:10Sorry, I actually wasn't paying attention.

13:13There seems to be a crackdown.

13:14The British government seems to be cracking down on social media posts,

13:18people being arrested for tweets, social posts.

13:21Just wondering how concerning that is to you, Mr. President, and Mr. Zuckerberg.

13:25This is the beginning of your political career.

13:27No, it's not.

13:30I will just say that in terms of U.K., strange things are happening over there.

13:35They are cracking down, and surprisingly so.

13:38And I've spoken to the Prime Minister, and let's see what happens.

13:43But it is a different, a little bit different situation.

13:47I'm very surprised to see what's happening.

13:49And are you talking about the U.K. in particular, right?

13:52Yeah?

13:52I'm very surprised to see what's happening.

13:54Sad.

13:54And it's not a good thing.

13:57Yeah, please.

13:58Mr. President, thank you.

13:59America is first in artificial intelligence.

14:02But what are your concerns in the alliance of Axis of Evil, China, Russia, and North Korea,

14:09towards artificial intelligence, but also as military, sir?

14:14Well, I have no concerns.

14:15We have the most brilliant people at this table, and nobody's close.

14:20And I spoke to world leaders, and they admit, and they admit privately, but they admit the biggest.

14:26They admit we have the smartest people.

14:28We have the greatest technology.

14:30They can copy, but they can't create like we can create.

14:34We have the smartest people in the world right at this table.

14:36So thank you for the question.

14:38Thank you very much, everybody.

14:40Thank you very much.

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