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Billionaire attendees worth a combined $719 billion, as well as other business executives and the world\u2019s highest-paid athlete, were among the high-profile attendees at President Donald Trump\u2019s black-tie dinner for Saudi Arabia\u2019s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are seated for a dinner in the East Room of the White House.<\/p>\n
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Some of the world\u2019s richest people \u2014including Elon Musk<\/strong> and Steve Schwarzman <\/strong>of Blackstone\u2014were among the attendees. <\/p>\n Billionaire Jensen Huang<\/strong> and Lisa Su<\/strong>, the CEOs of chip giants Nvidia and AMD, attended months after both companies signed deals<\/a> to supply their advanced semiconductors to AI company Humain\u2014which the Saudi sovereign wealth fund PIF<\/a> owns.<\/p>\n Tech and finance billionaires Marc Benioff<\/strong> of Salesforce, Brian Armstrong<\/strong> of Coinbase, Tim Cook<\/strong> of Apple and Vlad Tenev<\/strong> of Robinhood also attended.<\/p>\n David Ellison<\/strong>, the CEO of Paramount Skydance Corporation and son of mega billionaire Larry Ellison, was there amid reports the Saudi sovereign fund could partly fund<\/a> his company\u2019s bid to acquire rival Warner Bros. Discovery (the company has since denied<\/a> the claim).<\/p>\n Also among the invitees were General Motors CEO Mary Barra<\/strong>, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla<\/strong>, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser<\/strong> and Chevron CEO Mike Wirth<\/strong>. <\/p>\n Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong>, who signed the world\u2019s most expensive soccer contract with Saudi soccer club Al-Nassr two years ago and has surpassed $1 billion in career earnings, lended his star power to the dinner. <\/p>\n Have Musk And Trump Made Up?<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear. The dinner was the first time Musk has been at the White House since he left<\/a> his role as a special government employee heading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in May. He then publicly feuded<\/a> with Trump, but his attendance is the latest sign pointing to thawing tension between them as Musk\u2019s threat to start his breakaway \u201cAmerica Party<\/a>\u201d appears stalled<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Billionaire attendees worth a combined $719 billion, as well as other business executives and the world\u2019s highest-paid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4116,32,295,13,40614,6857,12,8032,14,183675],"class_list":{"0":"post-580847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cristiano-ronaldo","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-jensen-huang","13":"tag-mohammed-bin-salman","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tim-cook","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-white-house-dinner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115577550559338669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}