Millionaires

Donald Trump stood outside the Palm Room doors at the White House this week, taking questions alongside the AI titans with whom he’d just had lunch. Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman: a still image of the gaggle captures a net worth that edges into the trillions. Cockburn found his mind wandering back to Trump’s interview with The Spectator at the start of his second term. Ben Domenech pointed out that the priorities of his wealthy new big tech friends “and the kind of populist priorities of your voters, don’t necessarily align on everything.” “Probably,” Trump conceded. “Are you going to have to tell them no on some of the things that they’re going to ask of you?” Domenech asked. “Sure.