Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Qatar offers Trump jumbo jet to serve as Air Force One; Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Other C.E.O.s Join Trump at U.S.-Saudi Lunch

 Qatar offers Trump jumbo jet to serve as Air Force One (Thanks to Frank for this one)
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Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Other C.E.O.s Join Trump at U.S.-Saudi Lunch

Many of the executives — including representatives of four of the 10 biggest U.S. companies by market value — are seeking business from Saudi investors and a chance to lobby top Trump officials. 


Here are some of the business executives and other guests for the lunch, according to a list provided by the White House:

    Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX

    Stephen A. Schwarzman, chief executive of the Blackstone Group

    Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock

    Arvind Krishna, chairman and chief executive of IBM

    Jane Fraser, chief executive of Citigroup

    Kelly Ortberg, chief executive of Boeing

    Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google

    Andy Jassy, chief executive of Amazon

    Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI

    Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia

    Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir

    Jeff Miller, chief executive of Halliburton

    Travis Kalanick, former chief executive of Uber and founder of Cloud Kitchens

    Kathy Warden, chief executive of Northrop Grumman

    James Quincey, chief executive of Coca-Cola

    Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive of Uber

    Francis Suarez, mayor of Miami

    Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA

    Patrick Soon-Shiong, executive chairman of Immunity Bio and owner of The Los Angeles Times

Reid Hoffman, the executive chairman of LinkedIn, was on the list of attendees provided by the White House, but a representative said he did not attend.