{"id":137730,"date":"2025-01-25T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/bill-gates-confirms-engaging-3-hour-dinner-with-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T13:59:09","slug":"bill-gates-confirms-engaging-3-hour-dinner-with-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/bill-gates-confirms-engaging-3-hour-dinner-with-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Confirms &#8220;Engaging&#8221; 3-Hour Dinner With Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-not-a-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bill-gates\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bill-gates\" data-tag=\"bill-gates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Gates<\/a> has been forthcoming together with his tackle the current shift in US politics, after a three-hour dinner with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> final month that the tech titan referred to as \u201cengaging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/life-style\/celebrity\/article\/bill-gates-interview-new-book-memoir-wh766b9bs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to <em>The Times of London<\/em> newspaper, <\/a>Gates confirmed that he\u2019d sat down in December with then-president elect Trump at his Florida residence of Mar-a-Lago. Gates recounted:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOn December 27 I had a three-hour dinner with Trump\u2026 It was quite an engaging conversation where he listened to me talk about HIV and the need to stay generous and to innovate to get a cure. I talked a lot about polio and energy and nuclear, and he wasn\u2019t dismissive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOf his have to work with Trump on his personal tireless marketing campaign for funding for vaccines to assist eradicate illnesses notably within the creating world, Gates stated:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThere is so much up in the air with him \u2014 is he going to deport nine million or one million? Is he going to have 60 per cent tariffs or 5 per cent? Is he going to fund infectious disease innovation or end it? I need to stay close. Whoever gets to enthuse President Trump about the right things, that is God\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGates sounded much less enthused by the prospect of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elon-musk\" data-tag=\"elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s persevering with curiosity within the politics of the UK and into Europe and Asia, and his propensity to precise his opinions on his social media platform X. Gates referred to as it \u201creally insane that he can destabilise the political situations in countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe expended: \u201cI feel within the US foreigners aren\u2019t allowed to provide cash; different international locations perhaps ought to undertake safeguards to ensure super-rich foreigners aren\u2019t distorting their elections. It\u2019s obscure why somebody who has a automobile manufacturing unit in each China and in Germany, whose rocket enterprise is ultra-dependent on relationships with sovereign nations and who&#8217;s busy slicing $2 trillion in US authorities bills and operating 5 firms, is obsessing about this grooming story within the UK. I\u2019m like, what?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe can all overreach\u2026 If someone is super-smart, and he is, they should think how they can help out. But this is populist stirring.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bill Gates has been forthcoming together with his tackle the current shift in US politics, after a three-hour dinner with Donald Trump final month that the tech titan referred to as \u201cengaging.\u201d Speaking to The Times of London newspaper, Gates confirmed that he\u2019d sat down in December with then-president elect Trump at his Florida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8531,641,649,1856,482,8530,540,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-137730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-3hour","9":"tag-bill","10":"tag-confirms","11":"tag-dinner","12":"tag-donald","13":"tag-engaging","14":"tag-gates","15":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}