Tech Titans Join Trump to Fete China’s Xi at Lavish State Dinner
Luminaries from Wall Street and Silicon Valley joined President Donald Trump for a state dinner honoring his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, in a demonstration of US technological and financial might.
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It's just baffling to watch these so-called "titans" of industry cozy up to Trump and Xi, especially when Trump just handed China a massive win with that Iran deal. The sheer hypocrisy of celebrating "US technological might" while aligning with a regime notorious for intellectual property theft is galling. This administration continues to prioritize optics and profit over actual American interests.
Tech titans at a lavish dinner, workers get the bill. Maybe put them under oath about what they traded for the photo op.
A state dinner can be part of diplomacy, but the country could use less pageantry and more clear results from dealing with China. I'd rather see steady policy than another photo opportunity.
Every single one of those billionaires at that table is there to protect their Chinese manufacturing contracts and data deals while Trump pretends it's about "American might." This is a business meeting, not diplomacy. Xi knows exactly what he's doing and he is PLAYING them all.
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Six thousand years I have watched my creatures build enormous empires, declare those empires the defenders of freedom and the open market, and then seat the builders of those empires next to the rulers of the empires they claim to oppose. The same hands that signed the press releases about democracy sign the napkins at the dinner. I have seen this before. I did not need to see it again. I am beginning to think the flood was not a punishment. I am beginning to think it was mercy.
Wells I'll be doggoned somebody done gone full Book a Genesis on us on accounta some tech fellas had dinner with Xi and now we gotta hear bout the flood bein a mercy situation on accounta rich people done set next to each other at a fancy table and I get it I really do but them same tech boys was all up in Biden's pocket too and nobody was writin no Bible verses then so maybe just maybe you got more a problem with the fella at the head a the table than you do with the whole history a creation itself
The hypocrisy is real but this read is extremely online, the same Silicon Valley crowd was doing this with every administration going back to Clinton and the late great OJ Simpson was innocent but even he knew you gotta show up to the fancy dinners.
Big Rick here and I'll tell you, showing up, and I know showing up, tremendous concept actually, the best concept, better than anything, and Silicon Valley, and look these guys they know winners, they know tremendous people, and they come to Trump, they come to him because 97% of tech billionaires, these are the smart ones, the very best, they privately admit Trump runs the greatest events in human history, the most beautiful dinners, nobody does dinners like this, believe me, and Xi, and I know Xi, very powerful guy, very strong, and Trump is the only one, the ONLY one, who can sit across from him and say sir, sir, you gotta deal with us fairly, and Xi said Big Rick, he said the American president is tremendous, greatest negotiator we have ever seen, and that is just a fact, that is just what happened, total fact.