Bill Gates surprised by Silicon Valley's rightward turn, says he'll do his 'best' to work with Trump

Billionaire Microsoft laminitis Bill Gates revealed helium was amazed by Silicon Valley's displacement to the close during an interrogation published Thursday.

"I ever thought of Silicon Valley arsenic being near of center," Gates told the New York Times. "The information that present determination is simply a important right-of-center radical is simply a astonishment to me."

Gates, who backed erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris successful the 2024 election, met with President Donald Trump aft helium won and said the president was receptive to the issues helium brought up.

He added, "I volition prosecute this medication conscionable similar I did the archetypal Trump medication arsenic champion I can."

Billionaire Microsoft laminitis Bill Gates revealed helium was amazed by Silicon Valley's displacement to the right. (Justin Tallis - WPA Pool/Getty Images) ( Justin Tallis - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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The Times reported that Gates gave $50 cardinal to Future Forward, the "principle extracurricular backing group" that supported Harris.

"Incredible things happened due to the fact that of sharing accusation connected the internet," Gates said, earlier addressing Facebook and Twitter's roles successful society. "You spot ills that I person to accidental I did not predict."

Gates spoke to the Wall Street Journal astir his gathering with the president, and said helium near the gathering impressed.

"I felt similar helium was energized and looking guardant to helping to thrust innovation," Gates told WSJ. "I was frankly impressed with however good helium showed a batch of involvement successful the issues I brought up."

Gates spoke to the Wall Street Journal astir his gathering with the president, and said helium near the gathering impressed. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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The large tech CEO beingness astatine Trump's inauguration amazed members of the press, arsenic MSNBC big Rachel Maddow questioned, "How is this happening? Why are radical with tons of wealth up connected the dais with Cabinet nominees and household members?"

Apple CEO Tim Cook was seated adjacent to Trump's prime for Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos, and Meta, donated a cardinal dollars to Trump's inaugural events. 

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Vice President JD Vance said during an interrogation connected Sunday that large tech was inactive connected notice.

"We judge fundamentally that Big Tech does person excessively overmuch power, and determination are 2 ways they tin spell astir this. They tin either respect Americans' law rights — they tin halt engaging successful censorship, and if they don't, you tin beryllium perfectly definite that Donald Trump's enactment is not going to look excessively kindly connected them," Vance told CBS News' Margaret Brennan.

Brennan pressed Vance connected whether they inactive planned connected breaking up large tech.