Donald Trump Met with Bill Gates

[SteelCurtain]

Several things come to mind, including the value of (real) charitable foundations.

Gate's "charitable" foundation is as much a scam as Trump's. The vast majority of its funds come from Microsoft, a company he hasn't owned in a long time (he's at best defrauded his fellow investors to fund a vanity project), has a nasty habit of crowding out local companies and governmental organisations in favour of companies owned or operated by friends which are much dearer to use, and finally both he and his wife have, for years, taken seven figure salaries from the trust.

Gates is simply much better at seeming than Trump.

Well that's just a ridiculous sentiment straight out of 4chan.

The Gates Foundation actually gives money (and a fuckton of it) to actual charities. Billions of dollars have gone to fighting eradicable diseases, basic healthcare, family planning, etc. in third world countries.

The worst that can be said is that the trust (not the foundation, but the Bill & Melinda Gates Trust) which provides a significant amount of the capital for the foundation, invests in fossil fuel companies and shitty companies like Wal-Mart and McDonalds.

I'm sure they're not perfect people, but the foundation does a lot of good around the world. Comparing it to Trump's lack of proof for charitable donations to anyone but himself is just dishonest.

[Homeless Nutter]

You don't have to believe Trump is a clinically defined psychopath to know this is dangerous.  The meeting was announced briefly on the radio. No details except that Trump plans to meet with other technology experts. Now ask yourself what kind of information can a man like Gates give to a man like Trump?

The Orange F*ck-muppet is going to shut down the internet, like he promised a year ago. 

We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet. We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way.[...]

Some people will say, "Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech". These are foolish people.

Enjoy the interwebz, while you can...

[abaris]

Now ask yourself what kind of information can a man like Gates give to a man like Trump?

None, because Trump wouldn't understand a single word.

[LastPoet]

For security reasons, they will be installing windows on all the white house computers?

[brewer]

OMG, he met with Kenya West too!

[Tonus]

Pussy grabbers gotta hang, yo.

[mihoda]

Several things come to mind, including the value of (real) charitable foundations.

Gate's "charitable" foundation is as much a scam as Trump's. The vast majority of its funds come from Microsoft, a company he hasn't owned in a long time (he's at best defrauded his fellow investors to fund a vanity project), has a nasty habit of crowding out local companies and governmental organisations in favour of companies owned or operated by friends which are much dearer to use, and finally both he and his wife have, for years, taken seven figure salaries from the trust.

Gates is simply much better at seeming than Trump.

Those are some bold claims there, got any of them citations?

[Doubting Thomas]

Maybe Trump wanted Gates to teach his 10-year-old son about "cyber" before he appoints him as chief of cybersecurity.

[Aroura]

Gate's "charitable" foundation is as much a scam as Trump's. The vast majority of its funds come from Microsoft, a company he hasn't owned in a long time (he's at best defrauded his fellow investors to fund a vanity project), has a nasty habit of crowding out local companies and governmental organisations in favour of companies owned or operated by friends which are much dearer to use, and finally both he and his wife have, for years, taken seven figure salaries from the trust.

Gates is simply much better at seeming than Trump.

Well that's just a ridiculous sentiment straight out of 4chan.

The Gates Foundation actually gives money (and a fuckton of it) to actual charities. Billions of dollars have gone to fighting eradicable diseases, basic healthcare, family planning, etc. in third world countries.

The worst that can be said is that the trust (not the foundation, but the Bill & Melinda Gates Trust) which provides a significant amount of the capital for the foundation, invests in fossil fuel companies and shitty companies like Wal-Mart and McDonalds.

I'm sure they're not perfect people, but the foundation does a lot of good around the world. Comparing it to Trump's lack of proof for charitable donations to anyone but himself is just dishonest.

My mother used to live in a retirement community called Ryderwood, in Washington state.  It was miles from anything, basically an old logging housing development.  
They had one small grocery store there, and it burned to the ground. The Gates Foundation actually funded rebuilding the building, and added a library on as well.  IT was a wonderful thing to do, because otherwise those old folks were stuck driving upwards of 40 miles just to get milk and bread.  The library was a wonderful addition as well!

So yes, it does a ton of good, for local people and groups all over the world.  Big and small.

[brewer]

Oh shit, he met with Jim Brown also!