Posted on 06/24/2025 9:21:12 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Melinda French Gates has made a glaring dig at Donald Trump's tech billionaire friends for not staying true to their values.
The billionaire philanthropist and businesswoman, 60, voiced her concern over Silicon Valley's political shift to the right and argued that many leading figures are only 'pivoting' because of public relations and image.
It comes after tech giants, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Apple CEO Tim Cook were all front and center at Trump's inauguration in January, and after her ex-husband, Bill Gates, sat down with the president at the White House to discuss his philanthropic efforts.
Speaking on the latest episode of Bloomberg's The Circuit podcast, Melinda said: 'What I have seen in the last six months to a year is, many people who used to say one thing have absolutely shifted over here [gesturing to the right].'
'A democracy is made up by our beliefs and our investments and our values.
'We, of all times right now, should be living those values out, not pivoting to what some comms person tells us is the right thing to do. That would be ridiculous.'
Melinda went on to add that the world will one day look unfavorably at those companies who removed their DEI initiatives because of Trump's executive order.
'You have to look at society,' she continued.
'Who's in our society right now and does our democracy, do our state legislatures and does our Senate or our Congress look like society? The answer is no.
'The reason you need to have of all society representative in the legislature in any governing body is because they make good policy based on their lived experience.'
Melinda has slammed Trump in the past, having condemned the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Kurt Russell in drag.
She married into a fortune. Her husband cheated on her from day one. She divorced him after he kept going to Epstein island and elsewhere to rape teenage girls but only when the news started to leak out. She was ok with their lifestyle until the leaks.
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Maybe she should buy a clue.
Microsoft and the Gates empire is NOT located in Silicon Valley.
The two areas are vastly different in their thinking.
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