Trump to Host Top Tech and Business Leaders at Rose Garden Dinner

U.S. President Donald Trump will host more than two dozen technology and business leaders for a dinner Thursday in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden, a White House official said.

Guests include MetaMeta founder Mark Zuckerberg, AppleApple CEO Tim Cook, MicrosoftMicrosoft founder Bill Gates, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, GoogleGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai, OracleOracle CEO Safra Catz, and TeslaTesla CEO Elon Musk is notably absent from the list.

The gathering underscores Trump’s evolving ties with Silicon Valley, once marked by clashes over regulation and content moderation but now recalibrated after his 2024 election victory. Executives have sought closer alignment with the administration on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

The Rose Garden renovation, completed in August, replaced the traditional lawn with a stone patio and umbrella-shaded tables modeled after Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The dinner follows a White House AI event hosted earlier in the day by First Lady Melania Trump.