All the President’s Tech CEOs

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host tech leaders, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for dinner at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2025.Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

The scene opens confusingly. The camera zooms too close to the president’s face; the table at which the tech executives are seated seems far too long. Mark Zuckerberg is there, and Bill Gates and Tim Cook and Satya Nadella and Sam Altman and on and on, a baker’s dozen or so of Silicon Valley ...