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Bill Gates revealed that he recently joined President-elect Donald Trump for dinner, making him the latest billionaire to meet with Trump as he prepares to retake office.

"I had a chance to go have a long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him," Gates told Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker, adding that he was "frankly impressed" with the amount of interest Trump showed in a wide range of global health issues.

Why It Matters

Gates said in the interview that he had dined with Trump, the incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles, and Larry Cohen, the CEO of Gates Notes and a close aide to Gates.

The Microsoft cofounder's dinner with Trump comes as several other billionaires and tech CEOs court the president-elect, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who will also help lead the Department of Government Efficiency.

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Gates, who also met with Trump after his fir