Microsoft founder Bill Gates recapped during an interview this week his recent dinner with President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the inauguration next week.
Gates is just the latest major tech figure to have dined with the president-elect, joining the ranks of others like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and more.
Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he dined with Trump two weeks ago and had a “long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him.”
Gates said that Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was the only other person from Trump’s side to join him during the dinner.
He said that they talked about a “wide-ranging” number of topics, including Gates’ work with vaccines.
“He, in the Covid days, accelerated the vaccine innovation,” Gates said. “So I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got, I think, pretty excited about that.”
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“I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation,” Gates said. “I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.”
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Bill Gates talks about the recent three-hour-long dinner he had with President-elect Trump.
Gates says the only other person to join from the Trump side was Susie Wiles.
Gates says he was impressed by Trump’s interest in the issues he discussed, which included polio… pic.twitter.com/wCzDBK4U8Q
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