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Undated: William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation.[2][3] During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
-- 2017 --
February 16:
The fake news story has been making the rounds on Facebook.
March 4: Bill Gates tops Forbes' rich list but Trump's wealth slips
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39332823
March 20: After Big Budget Cuts, Bill Gates Meets With Donald Trump to Discuss Foreign Aid
The Gates Foundation is hoping to work with the Trump White House on foreign aid.
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/bill-gates-donald-trump-white-house-meeting/
-- 2018 --
March 15: Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates said Thursday that he does not see eye-to-eye with President Donald Trump’s America-first approach to foreign aid but will try in his White House meeting with the president to convince him that continuing such global spending is in the nation’s best interests.
Gates is scheduled to meet with the president Thursday afternoon in the Oval Office, where he said he will tailor his pitch on continued foreign aid spending to Trump’s worldview.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/15/bill-gates-trump-465479
April 30: Bill Gates got President Trump fired up about a universal flu vaccine
https://www.statnews.com/2018/04/30/bill-gates-vaccine-trump-meeting/
April 30: Bill Gates told Trump that being his science adviser is ‘not a good use of my time’
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/30/17303086/bill-gates-trump-white-house-science-advisor
May 18: Bill Gates says Trump asked the difference between HIV and HPV
The billionaire Microsoft founder also said it was "kind of scary how much he knew about my daughter's appearance."
“In both of those two meetings he asked me if vaccines weren't a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill-effects of vaccines,” Gates said. “And somebody, Robert Kennedy Jr., was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things and I said, ‘No, that is a dead end, that would be a bad thing, do not do that.’”
There were laughs and groans from the audience after Gates added: “Both times he wanted to know the difference between HIV and HPV and so I was able to explain that those are things that are rarely confused with each other.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/bill-gates-says-trump-asked-difference-between-hiv-hpv-n875286
August 21: In Age of Trump, Bill Gates Uses Blog to Highlight Teacher Voice, Programs Helping Immigrant, Refugee Children
Bill Gates, one of the largest sources of K-12 philanthropy in the country, is using his perch to highlight the importance of teacher voice and the value of educating immigrant students.
He posted about 2018 Teacher of the Year Mandy Manning, who works at a center for new immigrant students at a high school in Spokane, Washington, as one of his “heroes in the field” on his Gates Note blog Tuesday.
Manning told The 74 after her selection as Teacher of the Year in April that, since President Donald Trump was elected and has limited admissions of refugees and cracked down on undocumented immigrants, she has redoubled her efforts to make sure students know they’re welcome in her classroom.
September 18: Bill Gates Got an Offer to Be Trump's Science Advisor and 26 Other Weird Things We've Learned About Him
Not only is he one of the wealthiest people in the world, but he's also a philanthropist, an author and even a knight.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/290977
September 20: At least one famous and influential person, Bill Gates, is willing to step up and recognize the intellectual merits of Donald Trump, currently excoriated by even senior members of his administration for acting like a spoiled child. From an exclusive interview with The Guardian, many people will be surprised to learn from the mouth of Microsoft’s founder that “Donald Trump is ‘open-minded’ about policies and might be persuaded on foreign aid.”
https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/bill-gates-views-donald-trump-american-politics-news-this-week-23033/
November 26: Bill Gates holds out climate hope, despite Trump
Gates has met several times with Trump, most recently in March. And while he has yet to get concrete positive action from the president on climate or other issues close to his heart, he refuses to talk critically about the president. Pressed several times on the matter in an "Axios on HBO" interview, he briefly acknowledged areas where the executive branch hadn't taken action before quickly shifting to point out others who have acted — including Congress, business leaders and other countries.
Why it matters: In his post-Microsoft life, Gates has emerged as one of the world's biggest philanthropists, focusing on global health and other issues. Many of those benefitting from Gates Foundation investments are also those feeling the impact of climate change most severely. Gates has also been an investor in a number of energy projects, including Terrapower, a small-scale nuclear energy startup.
https://www.axios.com/bill-gates-climate-change-donald-trump-7d3ab7c6-9972-44c3-92ac-72cca995549c.html
December 12: Bill Gates hopes Trump’s trade war won’t wreck the global health agenda
“Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who’s in D.C. this week to meet with administration officials and members of Congress, told Axios he hopes the U.S.’ souring relationships with Europe and China — sparked by the Trump administration’s tariffs — won’t hurt long-term global health or climate change goals…” (Owens, 12/11).
https://www.kff.org/news-summary/bill-gates-concerned-about-implications-of-trump-administrations-trade-policies-on-global-health-efforts/
-- 2019 --
January 1: Trump’s Tech Battle With China Roils Bill Gates Nuclear Venture
Recent policy change at Energy Department sidelines TerraPower’s effort to make reactors smaller, cheaper and safer
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-tech-battle-with-china-roils-bill-gates-nuclear-venture-11546360589
January 8:
“We hope we can work with them and bring them back,” said Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette in an exchange with reporters Monday. Brouillette revealed the Energy Department has held “several conversations” with Gates, adding that he was optimistic the U.S. government could streamline the permitting process and entice the billionaire to bring his project stateside.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/08/bill-gates-nuclear-project/
February 14: Bill Gates Ignores Trump, Focuses Instead on Toilets
Last year's annual letter from Bill and Melinda Gates was all about Trump. This year not so much.
Bill and Melinda Gates issued their annual "state of the world" memorandum earlier this week. It's many pages long, so if you're interested in knowing what's essential, my excellent editor Diana Ransom posted the most startling highlights.
What struck me, personally, about the Gates letter wasn't what it contained but who it ignored. Last year's annual Gates letter was a huge broadside fired directly at President Donald Trump. Here are some excerpts:
"The world is not a safer place when more people are sick or hungry [but] President Trump proposed severe cuts to foreign aid."
"The America First worldview concerns me. It's not that the United States shouldn't look out for its people. The question is how best to do that. My view is that engaging with the world has proven over time to benefit everyone, including Americans, more than withdrawing does."
"The duties of the president of the United States is to role model American values in the world. I wish our president would treat people, and especially women, with more respect when he speaks and tweets."
In this year's letter, though, Trump doesn't make a single appearance. Instead the Gates spend hundreds of words on nuts-and-bolts philanthropy like the need for third world toilets and the disproportionate negative impact of bovine flatulence on world climate.
https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/bill-gates-ignores-trump-focuses-instead-on-toilets.html
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