“Congratulations to President @realDonaldTrump on his decisive victory,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on Wednesday. “We’re in a golden age of American innovation and are dedicated to working along with his administration to assist convey the advantages to everybody.”
Pichai, like a number of different tech CEOs, has made an effort to attach with Trump just lately as his victory gave the impression to be a rising risk.
“I truly received a name from Sundar, Sundar, who’s nice, from Google, he’s an awesome man, very good. The pinnacle of Google,” Trump stated throughout a rally final month. “And he stated, ‘Sir I simply wish to inform you, what you did with McDonald’s was one of many single greatest occasions we’ve ever had at Google.’”
Trump has recounted that story on at the very least two different events, as soon as at a Las Vegas rally and as soon as whereas talking to podcaster Joe Rogan. Throughout an interview in Chicago on Oct. 15, Trump stated he known as Pichai as a result of he was pissed off with a scarcity of optimistic tales about him, calling Google “rigged similar to our authorities is rigged.”
Trump has lengthy gone after Google and different tech firms, routinely accusing them of bias and controlling what outcomes get proven to the general public. In 2019, he claimed Pichai was “working very onerous to clarify how a lot he preferred me” and the Trump administration.
