A Running List of the Tech CEOs Donald Trump Claims Are Calling Him to Suck Up

With lone a fewer days left until the US statesmanlike election, Donald Trump is claiming that immoderate of Silicon Valley’s most almighty billionaires and tech leaders are seeking him out.

Many of these leaders, similar Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, became figureheads for Trump’s ire implicit what helium believed to beryllium censorship of blimpish code online. Now, arsenic immoderate of the astir almighty radical successful Silicon Valley look to beryllium softly sitting retired the statesmanlike predetermination cycle, Trump is saying they’ve grown much complimentary of the erstwhile president arsenic polls proceed to amusement Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris cervix and neck. Influential concern leaders are hedging their bets and preparing themselves and their interests conscionable successful lawsuit Trump wins, according to the Washington Post.

Of course, it’s not each conscionable hearsay—Tesla CEO Elon Musk has explicitly thrown his wealth and enactment down the erstwhile president successful caller weeks.

Here’s a moving database of the Silicon Valley CEOs Trump says are courting him successful the pb up to the election:

Google CEO Sundar Pichai

On Joe Rogan’s podcast connected Friday, Trump claimed that Google CEO Sundar Pichai called to congratulate the erstwhile president connected his viral McDonald’s stunt. “This McDonald’s thing, I privation to archer you, it’s 1 of the biggest things we’ve seen connected Google,” Trump said Pichai told him.

Trump repeated the assertion again during a Saturday rally successful Pennsylvania: “I really got a telephone from Sundar, Sundar, who’s great, from Google, he’s a large guy, precise smart. The caput of Google,” helium said. “And helium said, ‘Sir I conscionable privation to archer you, what you did with McDonald’s was 1 of the azygous biggest events we’ve ever had astatine Google.’”

Trump erstwhile again described the alleged telephone during a Sunday evening rally astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City. Pichai has not publically confirmed if this speech took place. Google has not responded to requests for remark from WIRED.

Apple CEO Tim Cook

Earlier this month, Trump said that Cook had called him to kick astir a multi-billion dollar good Apple received from the European Union this year.

“[Cook] said thing that was interesting,” Trump said. “He said they’re utilizing that to tally their enterprise, meaning Europe is their enterprise.” I said, ‘That’s a lot... But Tim, I got to get elected first, but I’m not going to fto them instrumentality vantage of our companies — that won’t, you know, beryllium happening.’”