Trump hosts tech titans at White House

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Trump did an event yesterday and Suckerberg and Gates were
there and people are outraged by it.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, you also had Tim Cook there is the Apple guy.
He is the Apple guy. And you had all sorts
of CEOs from Oracle and Blue Origin and Pallenteer and
just all the all the tech people were there. Right,
it was like a Silicon Valley thing reunion in the
Rose Garden area.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
But the outrage from a lot of people, as they're saying,
and we saw this during the inauguration too, where these
guys were got the primo seats is these guys hate you.
They did everything they could to not just defeat you,
but take you out, and.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Now you're opening the doors to them.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, it's the and and it's hard to look. I'm
not a hardcore Trump supporter. I voted for Trump because
it was the one other option that I have. Right,
I've been Trump's I knew would be infinitely better on
the border, which he has been, and better on foreign policy,
which to some extent he has been on that too.
And that you know, obviously I've got two choices. You
got picked one of the two. I mean, you don't

(01:05):
have to, but you give what I'm saying, but if
you're a hardcore Trump person, you gotta be a little
taken aback by this. Knowe you that this guy because
he does this all the time. He keeps engaging or
propping up or giving the VIP treatment to people that

(01:26):
try to destroy him. Well, and if you're a hardcore
Trump person who worked very hard to get Trump elected,
did you gotta be looking at that going yeah, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, it does signal somewhat of a realignment with big
Tech despite their past clashes. I have to note Elon
Musk wasn't there. He declined the imitations. He said a representative,
you'd be there in his place after they're public falling out.
But is this a situation of if you can't beat him,
join them, because Tech is always going to be there.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Sure, But I think there's a different between we got
to work together and I'm rolling out the red carpet
for these people, right. I think there's I think there's
a and I think those guys at the inauguration was
a you know, I think that was a massive slap

(02:18):
in the face. By the way, the inauguration, wasn't it
brought to you by Google?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Uh? Well, here in Indiana. That was here, Yes, it was, yes, Yeah,
there was a huge banner.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
That's right, that's right at that thing we went to.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I bet we don't get invited to that, that's right
to bet.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
That was the and I told you when we went,
I said, we got to go to this because I bet,
I say, and do something to get us uninvited from
this going forward. And aren't you glad we went now
because we're never getting invited again? I called that one.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah. But at the big Bronze ball there was a
stage and right behind the podium on the stage there
was a big screen and the screen was flashing different sponsors,
and Google was a one. Also makes you wonder about
the connections to all the data centers.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, that was where I was going to go with
this is because I remember at the time, I think I
brilliantly said why is Google sponsoring the Indiana Republican Party?
And well, as with all things, yeah, there was a
clear answer, which is they want the giveaways for the
data centers in Franklin Township. And now, of course the
guy Alex Willis who had on yesterday said the one

(03:26):
in Monrovia is a Google related.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Thing, is Google too.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, So point in all this is these people are
not our friends. They're not friends of the American people,
They're not friends of Trump. They exist to make money.
They exist to enhance their their power, their footprint, their
dominance over people's lives. And you're right, though, Casey, we

(03:50):
are totally slaves to technology at this point.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
So many of the attendees they announced different projects or
investment that support Trump's goals on AI development, also manufactured suring,
and workforce automation. One of those people, Noah, Wait.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
But how many of those investments are backed up by
foreign based workers. That's what really matters. People that are
going to come into this country and they are going
to take these jobs from people from other countries. That's
always the thing when we talk about investment now in
our country, when these foreign or tech based companies talk

(04:25):
about investment in Indiana, investment in America. Yeah, but how
many of those jobs are guaranteed to go to American workers.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
So Mark Zuckerberg was there and he said that his
company was going to invest at least six hundred billion
in the US over the next several years, and he
said it was to build out data centers and infrastructure
to power the next wave of innovation. When I heard
him say that, I kept thinking, you're not doing this
for me. You're doing this for you, of course, and

(04:54):
your company.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Now, look there's some there's some thing too. Hey, we
all are not all of it, but a lot of
us use Facebook. However, if you told me that Facebook
could go away but I'd have more affordable water and electricity,
I'd take giving up Facebook. And you're right, they're a
for profit company. It's not like they're running a soup

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kitchen over at Facebook.