Silicon Valley billionaire and very long time Democratic voter, Chamath Palihapitiya, has shared a shocking revelation about his expertise with President Donald Trump on Friday.
Palihapitiya, the Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American enterprise capitalist and CEO of Social Capital said on his podcast that the media’s portrayal of Trump had been lies and that witnessing Trump in particular person dramatically modified his notion of the previous president.
Talking on the All In Podcast, alongside co-hosts Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, Palihapitiya praised Trump for his charisma, mind, humor, and sudden kindness.
Palihapitiya: “I’ll offer you two observations. The primary is that I feel there’s a large hole between how the media tries to painting Donald Trump and what he’s like once you meet him in particular person. And that hole is admittedly vast. So, I might say, particularly to Democrats and independents, you actually do want to take a seat within the room and really feel what it’s like. David is correct. He’s charismatic, he’s intellectually sharp, and he’s humorous. Whenever you put that collectively, he can interact an viewers for a very long time and be completely extemporaneous.
“The opposite factor I might say is that he’s very well mannered and he’s variety in a manner that was disarming and was not what I anticipated. I felt that I had misjudged him for a few years up to now. I used to be very glad that I had a possibility to take a seat beside him and to truly work together with him one-on-one. It was actually participating. That’s extra concerning the fashion. Then concerning the substance, what I might say is that it was not only a pro-American agenda, however it’s very clear that he was pro-innovation. He was actually supportive of AI within the particulars that he talked about.”
He recounted a humorous second the place Trump complimented him and his spouse, saying, “You guys are a very lovely couple… Nicely, you have to be actually wealthy.” Palihapitiya discovered this fairly amusing.
Palihapitiya additionally admired Trump’s willingness to have interaction in open dialogue. He famous that Trump inspired folks to ask questions and share their ideas, resulting in a roundtable dialogue on varied subjects together with Iran, overseas coverage, deficit, and debt.
“He’s very a lot in your facet of to actually work out how one can get spending so as and get the deficit underneath management,” Palihapitiya mentioned.
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This isn’t the primary time the billionaire has defended Trump. Final yr, he mentioned his Trump Derangement Syndrome did extra hurt than Trump himself.
“As a Democrat, who has been left homeless, who’s now undoubtedly within the middle, however in all probability leaning more and more proper, I’m left but once more with an appreciation, regardless of the messenger of the message, of the Trump administration, as a result of what these guys did, was fairly unbelievable,” Palihapitiya mentioned on his podcast present “All-in-Podcast.”
He continued, “These Abraham Accords, the accords with Israel and the GCC, the just about accord between Israel and Saudi, to actually have the ability to like discover a long-lasting peace is only a actual instance for the world. And people guys did quite a lot of actually nice work.
“This can be a second when you must begin to re-underwrite, is one’s ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ inflicting extra harm than something President Trump may have accomplished? And I feel the reply is sure,” Palihapitiya mentioned.
“As a result of it’s now inflicting us to not see that good work, after which embrace and prolong it. A lot of the work that occurred in that administration turned out to have been proper, and that’s what is so irritating for me,” he added.
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