Trump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans

President Donald Trump spent Thursday honoring technology executives at a Washington ceremony, even as voters face rising living costs and midterm elections are less than a month away. At the Donald J Trump Institute of Peace, before about 300 invited guests, he gave the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Satya Nadella and Michael Dell. Five of the six were born abroad, and earlier in the day Vice President JD Vance had announced Microsoft's suspension from a program for sponsoring foreign workers' green cards, according to The Guardian.

Trump also received the 1983 National Medal of Science of his late uncle, John Trump, presented by Michael Kratsios, the White House science and technology policy director, after a tribute video whose claims The Guardian's David Smith treats skeptically. Trump kept to his teleprompter and mentioned artificial super intelligence but not the data centers that draw anger from both parties. Smith also recounts the president's turbulent history with Musk, including a public break over the Epstein files that Vance reportedly helped mend.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →