U.S. President Donald Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump locomotion to the Rose Garden of the White House to clasp a signing ceremonial for the Take it Down Act, successful Washington, D.C., U.S., May 19, 2025.
Kevin Lamarque | Reuters
U.S. President Trump volition big 2 twelve high-profile tech and concern leaders for an inaugural lawsuit successful the White House's renovated Rose Garden connected Thursday.
Invitees see Meta laminitis Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft laminitis Bill Gates and OpenAI laminitis Sam Altman, according to a database confirmed by a White House official.
The gathering is expected to beryllium held implicit meal aft a abstracted White House lawsuit connected artificial quality hosted by archetypal woman Melania Trump.
The gathering underscores what has been a adjacent but analyzable narration betwixt Trump and the Big Tech assemblage successful his 2nd administration.
Many of the aforementioned executives person sought friendlier ties with Trump, often appearing astatine events alongside the president to denote moves that align with the administration's goals connected emerging technologies and American reshoring.
Invitees to the lawsuit besides see different tech leaders, specified arsenic OpenAI president Greg Brockman; Google co-founder Sergey Brin; Palantir main exertion serviceman Shyam Sankar; and co-founder of Scale AI and caput of a superintelligence squad astatine Meta, Alexandr Wang.
CEOs specified arsenic Google's Sundar Pichai, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Oracle's Safra Catz, and Micron Technology's David Limp person besides been invited.
Unsurprisingly, David Sacks, a task capitalist serving arsenic the White House's crypto and AI czar, is expected to beryllium astatine the event. Jared Isaacman, laminitis of Shift4, is besides expected to be contempt Trump withdrawing his nomination to tally NASA successful June.
Notably, Tesla CEO and SpaceX laminitis Elon Musk, who antecedently served arsenic a peculiar authorities worker successful the archetypal fewer months of the latest Trump medication and aboriginal had a public falling retired with the president, was not connected the invitation list.