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'Call me': Donald Trump woos tech leaders at New York meeting

theguardian.com

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[...] Trump opened the event by boasting of how many would-be-attendees he had turned away at the suggestion of Thiel. “I won’t tell you the hundreds of calls we’ve had, asking to come to this meeting,” Trump told attendees. “And I will say Peter [Thiel] would sort of say, ‘You know, that company’s too small.’ And these are monster companies.”

Donald Trump Jr, whom the president-elect has said will run his businesses during the senior Trump’s administration, attended the meeting. Alex Karp, the CEO of Thiel’s own data analytics firm, Palantir, managed to get an invitation. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who founded the service Trump often uses to communicate with the public, did not.

Dorsey is said to be on the outs with the Trump camp after refusing the add emojis to Trump’s Twitter campaign hashtag #CrookedHillary. Gary Coby, a Trump advertising staffer, detailed the dispute on the blogging platform Medium last month; early Wednesday, Politico reported that Trump had taken revenge by excluding Dorsey. [...]

I don't know, but this seems so sick. I can't imagine there is no conflict of interest here. And it really doesn't look very democratic any more.

It wasn't very democratic before. Obama just did a much better job making it look like it was. Bear in mind, Google's chairman of the board wore a staff badge to the Clinton election night event. Eric Schmidt also personally funded a startup with the sole goal of electing Hillary, so they could continue the partnership they had under the existing administration.

Neither party has any real issue employing close relationships with corporations if it accomplishes what they want to accomplish, which usually entails making themselves or someone close to them rich.

> And it really doesn't look very democratic any more

It isn't, this is the executive part of the government.

That aside misgivings and thoughts of bad faith by the opposing side are not special phenomenon.

I remember when Obama got in, Fox News got a temporary (1 year?) ban attending the whitehouse press conferences and panicking gun owners were making the cost of ammunition soar. He also has had a tendency to intervene in partisan issues, albeit most presidents are a little guilty of that.

Before that G.Bush was going to put all the atheists into Jesus Camp according to the websites I was visiting then. This later turned out to be preposterous. An imperfect president but not a totalitarian one.

A president/king is in the position where he has to balance power among multiple parties in order to accomplish a task. Even the likes of Saddam Hussein were in the same position.

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