Barry

For all Trump's talk of manufacturing jobs, you didn't see the CEOs of GE and Caterpillar sitting in the prime seats at the inauguration. You saw the CEOs of Amazon and X and Meta and Google and TikTok. It's the attentional oligarchs, I thought that was a really smart phrase, whose power he cares about. Let's talk a little bit about the new marriage of the...

biggest figures in big tech, the billionaires that run the most important companies in the world, and the way that they've now turned around and married themselves to the MAGA movement. You had Mark Zuckerberg throwing a ball on Monday night. It's Sunder Pichai, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, of course, all of these people just crawling all over D.C. this weekend.

biggest figures in big tech, the billionaires that run the most important companies in the world, and the way that they've now turned around and married themselves to the MAGA movement. You had Mark Zuckerberg throwing a ball on Monday night. It's Sunder Pichai, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, of course, all of these people just crawling all over D.C. this weekend.

biggest figures in big tech, the billionaires that run the most important companies in the world, and the way that they've now turned around and married themselves to the MAGA movement. You had Mark Zuckerberg throwing a ball on Monday night. It's Sunder Pichai, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, of course, all of these people just crawling all over D.C. this weekend.

It was such a huge, huge change from eight years ago. I wonder, first of all, what you all make of that change. And let's start there.

It was such a huge, huge change from eight years ago. I wonder, first of all, what you all make of that change. And let's start there.

It was such a huge, huge change from eight years ago. I wonder, first of all, what you all make of that change. And let's start there.

Batya, not everyone obsessively watches all of your Fox hits the way that I do and your hits across cable. So why don't you explain to people your feelings about the likes of some of these tech billionaires and their positions in the new Trump orbit?

Batya, not everyone obsessively watches all of your Fox hits the way that I do and your hits across cable. So why don't you explain to people your feelings about the likes of some of these tech billionaires and their positions in the new Trump orbit?

Batya, not everyone obsessively watches all of your Fox hits the way that I do and your hits across cable. So why don't you explain to people your feelings about the likes of some of these tech billionaires and their positions in the new Trump orbit?

Right. This is amazing. Just to catch people up. Right. Elon Musk and Sam Altman have a like really, really, really bitter feud going back to the founding of OpenAI. Right. People can go back and listen to the Sam Altman episode, but Sam Altman is now sort of the face of this new, I think it's $500 billion Stargate AI project. Oracle is involved. Myoshu Sun is involved.

Right. This is amazing. Just to catch people up. Right. Elon Musk and Sam Altman have a like really, really, really bitter feud going back to the founding of OpenAI. Right. People can go back and listen to the Sam Altman episode, but Sam Altman is now sort of the face of this new, I think it's $500 billion Stargate AI project. Oracle is involved. Myoshu Sun is involved.

Right. This is amazing. Just to catch people up. Right. Elon Musk and Sam Altman have a like really, really, really bitter feud going back to the founding of OpenAI. Right. People can go back and listen to the Sam Altman episode, but Sam Altman is now sort of the face of this new, I think it's $500 billion Stargate AI project. Oracle is involved. Myoshu Sun is involved.

And Elon, who's like essentially Trump's, I mean, in a way, Trump's, I don't know, second in command. Trump's probably like sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom. He's like openly trashing the idea in the replies to Sam Altman on Twitter. So it's just like this is all as far as I'm concerned, like some it's a powder keg. It will explode. The question is, like, who's going to be left standing?

And Elon, who's like essentially Trump's, I mean, in a way, Trump's, I don't know, second in command. Trump's probably like sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom. He's like openly trashing the idea in the replies to Sam Altman on Twitter. So it's just like this is all as far as I'm concerned, like some it's a powder keg. It will explode. The question is, like, who's going to be left standing?

And Elon, who's like essentially Trump's, I mean, in a way, Trump's, I don't know, second in command. Trump's probably like sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom. He's like openly trashing the idea in the replies to Sam Altman on Twitter. So it's just like this is all as far as I'm concerned, like some it's a powder keg. It will explode. The question is, like, who's going to be left standing?

So Steve Bannon – so are you saying Steve Bannon – brought down Musk via Marjorie Taylor Greene. I kind of buy it. I mean, I just I want to push back on the idea that these people are trophies for Trump. I think they have enormous influence and sway over him. Like, why do we think that it goes directionally one way where they're sort of his little playthings? I'm just wondering why you think that.

So Steve Bannon – so are you saying Steve Bannon – brought down Musk via Marjorie Taylor Greene. I kind of buy it. I mean, I just I want to push back on the idea that these people are trophies for Trump. I think they have enormous influence and sway over him. Like, why do we think that it goes directionally one way where they're sort of his little playthings? I'm just wondering why you think that.

So Steve Bannon – so are you saying Steve Bannon – brought down Musk via Marjorie Taylor Greene. I kind of buy it. I mean, I just I want to push back on the idea that these people are trophies for Trump. I think they have enormous influence and sway over him. Like, why do we think that it goes directionally one way where they're sort of his little playthings? I'm just wondering why you think that.

I'll just add, I think one thing to watch is we know that Truth Social is in receivership or some kind of trust. I think it's being run by Devin Nunes. That's definitely something he needs these guys for. Don't you think he wants a buyer for that at some point? I think he has a lot, a lot to gain personally and financially from these relationships. Let's just talk briefly about... Who else?