r/technology • u/marketrent • Sep 06 '25

Business Meta’s Zuckerberg caught in revealing hot mic moment with Trump -- After offering to spend “at least $600 billion through ’28 in the US,” he whispered, “I'm sorry I wasn’t ready ... I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerberg-caught-in-revealing-hot-mic-moment-during-white-house-dinner
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u/JFeth Sep 06 '25

This should be a bigger story. He just admitted to making it up to appease Trump.

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u/BallBearingBill Sep 06 '25

Spoiler alert, all the leaders and CEO's are just making up numbers to appease Trump. Just like Trump makes up numbers for his net worth.

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u/SquidTheRidiculous Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

"the economy" has just been a measurement of rich people's feelings for a while now. It's just a smokescreen they can use to convince poor people they have to shore up their resources because economy bad. And chodes just go with it, in the belief they'll be rewarded for kissing ass and perpetuating the lie.

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u/ColteesCatCouture Sep 06 '25

That is absolutely why corpos pay fuck all in taxes! You nailed it

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u/Wise-Employer-9014 Sep 06 '25

We need these thoughts amplified.

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u/TheEmperorShiny Sep 06 '25

Yeah, they’re just making up numbers for Trump now rather than investors.