Bill Gates: 3-Hour Trump Dinner “Productive;” Elon Musk’s Wading Into Overseas Politics “Insane”
deadline.comBill Gates has been forthcoming with his take on the recent shift in US politics, after a three-hour dinner with Donald Trump last month that the tech titan called “engaging.” Speaking to The Times of London newspaper, Gates confirmed that he’d sat down in December with then-president elect Trump at his Florida home of Mar-a-Lago.
Gates recounted: “On December 27 I had a three-hour dinner with Trump… 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’t dismissive.” Of his need to work with Trump on his own tireless campaign for funding for vaccines to help eradicate diseases particularly in the developing world, Gates said: “There is so much up in the air with him — 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.
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