Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk Meet Privately With Trump Following Tech Summit [Video]

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Posted December 15, 2016 at 12:07am by iClarified

President-elect Donald Trump held a tech summit today with the leaders of America's top technology companies.

Trump began by saying, "Well I just wanted to thank everybody. This is a truly amazing group of people. I won't tell you the hundreds of calls we've had asking to come to this meeting."

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk Meet Privately With Trump Following Tech Summit [Video]

Attendees included Apple CEO Tim Cook; Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos; Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg; Tesla CEO Elon Musk; Alphabet CEO Larry Page and Chairman Eric Schmidt; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith; and the CEOs of Intel, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, and Palantir.

"I'm here to help you folks do well," said Trump. "We want you to keep going with the incredible innovation. There’s nobody like you in the world. There's nobody like the people in this room. Anything we can do to help this go long, we're going to be there for you. You'll call my people, you'll call me. It doesn’t make any difference. We have no formal chain of command around here."

Apple CEO Tim Cook of Tesla CEO Elon Musk were scheduled to stay at Trump Tower after the meeting to speak privately with Trump, reports the WSJ. While Trump has opposed Apple's encryption stance, he is in favor of a tax cut for repatriating offshore funds.

Take a look below to see a video of the opening few minutes of the meeting.

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Test - December 15, 2016 at 6:18pm

Trump is he real deal American hero. I like his attitude and drive. He has gathered all the big gunners into one room and instructed them to follow his example. Many of them will soon have no more than a couple of billions instead of the countless many they have today.

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Marisolca - December 15, 2016 at 5:11pm

Super Great, Terrific, Marvelous, Trump is not yet at the White House but he is working to Make America Great Again :)

Suneel Aggarwal - December 15, 2016 at 4:03pm

Why do the Trump kids have the right to be in a meeting with the tech giants of the world and the president elect?

:D - December 16, 2016 at 1:41am

Why would they not? It's not a classified meeting and they were apart of his campaign. His kids will take an active governmental role so it may be a good idea to have them there.

PerpetuallyBlue - December 15, 2016 at 2:38pm

I just generally feel nauseous by the toxicity of Trump himself. I can't stand him. I've had to see his speeches and follow his decisions now and still, my being rejects him. Even the way he speaks is obnoxious. May Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah, Bhudda, Olofi and all gods have mercy on us.

:D - December 15, 2016 at 4:42am

I think that's actually a good thing, if you aren't familiar with Silicon Valley their entire ideal is "best idea wins" so with no formal chain of command in terms of what he's saying is a good thing. If someone that normally would be at the bottom of a formal chain of command has an amazing idea not having a formal chain of command is good because their idea can get across.

Neutered Pug - December 15, 2016 at 12:29am

Heh look at Bezos face he looks irritated lol