Source: New York Post
Inside the rotunda at Donald Trump’s second inauguration the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, went down the line shaking hands with each tech billionaire who showed up to kiss the ring — all except Elon Musk. It was an odd slight from Kushner to pass over the man who just spent $290 million of his own money to help get Trump elected, while the others — Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — had traditionally backed Democrats or leaned with Silicon Valley’s liberal culture. Two days after the inauguration, Musk’s very public budding bromance with the Commander-in-Chief was dealt another blow when the president announced an ambitious $500 billion AI data center deal, Stargate, in a joint venture with tech giant OpenAI — icing out Musk’s own budding AI company.
