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    "parsed_content": "Trump AdministrationN.I.H. GrantsGreenland DealDefense of A.I.Voting by MailApproval RatingAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTDining With A.I. Moguls, Billionaires and Xi Jinping, Trump Went Off ScriptAltman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV.Listen \u00b7 5:35 min Share full articlePresident Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with their wives, attend the state dinner at the White House Thursday night.Credit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesBy Shawn McCreeshShawn McCreesh reported from the White House.Published Sept. 24, 2026Updated Sept. 25, 2026, 3:07 p.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google It was just a fun little dinner for the people deciding the future of humanity.The amount of power concentrated at the head table alone was dizzying. The American president and the Chinese president, dining by candlelight with Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook, all of them sitting in the State Dining room of the White House at this moment that many in Silicon Valley warn could be the last before mankind stumbles into the A.I. apocalypse.ImageThe state dinner Thursday night was full of pageantry.Credit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesStanding before a room chockablock with A.I. moguls, billionaires and politicians, President Trump decided to depart from his prepared remarks. Now that he finally had these people together in one place, he could talk about his important plans. The ones he\u2019s been working on nonstop ever since he returned to the White House.\u201cIf I could go off-script, just for a second,\u201d he said.The sound of rich people clapping filled the room. Suspense!AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cI just want to say \u2026\u201d the president continued.\u201c\u2026 I\u2019d like to invite everyone in the room to visit through that beautiful curtain in the back \u2014 The door, it\u2019s all lit up, and looks beautiful. It\u2019s one year away from completion, the new ballroom that you\u2019ve heard about.\u201dOh. He was inviting them to take a walk through the construction site in back of the house.\u201cYou\u2019ll be the first people to step foot on that,\u201d he told guests including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, \u201cand we\u2019ll do that maybe after we\u2019re finished with the entertainment tonight.\u201dThere was not a single mention of A.I. in his speech. Mr. Trump doesn\u2019t buy into the A.I. panic. He insists it\u2019s mostly just a problem of branding. A.I. needs better P.R.If any of the tech titans and members of Chinese Politburo who showed up to the White House used the state visit to get on the same page about the direction of this terrifying new technology, they haven\u2019t shared their designs with the public. This was a roomful of people who have many disagreements about the way forward.ImagePresident Trump at the state dinner Thursday night, at which he invited his guests to visit the construction site of the new ballroom.Credit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesThe American president, for his part, just seemed happy to be playing ma\u00eetre d\u2019 to the mighty.\u201cYou will see something that I think you will really love,\u201d Mr. Trump told them about the ballroom site. \u201cTonight, if we had it, we would have had way more than a thousand people, with standing room only. And this room has about 145, that\u2019s about it.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cAnybody who wants to walk into a construction site that\u2019s nice and clean and sparkling, it\u2019s our honor to have you do so,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is in honor of President Xi, Madam Peng.\u201dSign up for the On Politics newsletter. It's a pivotal moment for American politics. Join us for 2026 and beyond. Get it sent to your inbox.Mr. Trump never seems more pleased than when he is hosting wealthy and powerful people at his table. The aspects of the job that so clearly delight him concern pageantry and set design, and Mr. Xi\u2019s visit provided opportunities for plenty of it.Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump took Mr. Xi around the back to show off a new helipad and the slick new driveway. \u201cHe\u2019s an expert on stone, aside from many others, and he loves good granite,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters as the pair walked back inside.ImagePresident Trump gave Chinese President Xi Jinping a tour of the new helipad.Credit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Xi announced a gift of two giant pandas, named Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, who will live at the Atlanta zoo. At the dinner, Mr. Trump unveiled a rather large statue of a bald eagle to give to the Chinese autocrat.\u201cWe hope it\u2019ll find a nice place, a wonderful place, in Beijing,\u201d Mr. Trump said.Sadly for Mr. Trump, almost none of this made it onto the television networks he watches so closely. The Chinese state visit has collided with the consequences of the decision he made in a fit of pique last Friday to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House campus. A judge ordered the Trump administration to let the banned reporters back Thursday, but the TV networks are still refusing to take Mr. Trump\u2019s carnival live. Until his administration formally agrees to let CNN back into the White House TV pool rotation, he is not going to see those blinking red lights he loves so much.ImageGifts were exchanged at the state dinner with President Trump giving the Chinese leader a statue of a bald eagle.Credit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesShortly before the dinner began, he posted one of his diatribes on his website.CNN and MS NOW were \u201cfake,\u201d he wrote, because they wouldn\u2019t cover \u201cone of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng.\"The president continued: \u201cThe event was magnificent \u2014 Actually made for Television but, because they\u2019re Fake News, and because they knew how good it would be, they didn\u2019t want credit to be given to \u2018TRUMP,\u2019 they refused to be there. That\u2019s why they have such poor Ratings.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTHe concluded: \u201cTonight\u2019s State Dinner at the White House, for President Xi, will be spectacular! The Media will be in attendance.\u201dYes, the White House complex was crawling with journalists Thursday evening as Mr. Xi pulled up to the front door of the residence. But, in the spirit of solidarity with those targeted by Mr. Trump\u2019s ban, some just ignored the spectacle.ImageChinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s limo driving past the media outside the West Wing of the White House.Credit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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