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Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com)
MSNBC recently published a video of Bill Gates telling his staff at the Gates Foundation that he had two meetings with Donald Trump since the president was elected. In the video, Gates says Trump doesn't know the difference between two sexually transmitted diseases -- human papillomavirus (HPV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- and that it was "scary" how much Trump knew about Gates' daughter's appearance. Gates also said he urged Trump to support innovation and technology during those meetings. CNN reports: Taking audience questions about his interactions with Trump at a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation meeting, the former Microsoft honcho said he first met Trump in December 2016. He told the audience that Trump had previously come across his daughter, Jennifer, at a horse show in Florida. "And then about 20 minutes later he flew in on a helicopter to the same place," Gates said, according to video of the event broadcast by MSNBC late Thursday. "So clearly he had been driven away but he wanted to make a grand entrance in a helicopter. "Anyway, so when I first talked to him, it was actually kind of scary how much he knew about my daughter's appearance. Melinda (Gates' wife) didn't like that too well."
Gates also said he discussed science with Trump on two separate occasions, where he says the President questioned him on the difference between HIV and HPV. "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 and somebody -- I think it was Robert Kennedy Jr. -- was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things. And I said no, that's a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don't do that. "Both times he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other," Gates said.
Gates also said he discussed science with Trump on two separate occasions, where he says the President questioned him on the difference between HIV and HPV. "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 and somebody -- I think it was Robert Kennedy Jr. -- was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things. And I said no, that's a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don't do that. "Both times he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other," Gates said.
He would find Gate's daughter attractive. He openly said he would "do" his own.
I have to wonder if Trump was actually unaware of which groups of people have what opinion about vaccines (regardless of his knowledge about the actual science), which makes me wonder if his repeated questions weren't intended to deliberately make Gates uncomfortable. The word "innovation" coming from MS similarly makes me feel uncomfortable. Perhaps Gates can have someone innovate a way to help his daughter fool digital photography. Maybe strong IR emitters in the cloths coupled with IR reflecting particles in makeup or CNC face painting that subtly gives the impression of bone structure that isn't there.
Executive overreach, wrong. Deteriorating race relations = Trump. Increasing inequality = GOP tax focus. Stuttering recovery = you are high. Health care reform occurred DESPITE you. Foreign policy disasters = Bush legacy.
You're a moron. Trump lives in his own asshole, none of this has anything to do with the actual record of the office of the President. Trump will die in prison a traitor.
Although personalities like Trump tend to be shallow in many ways, in this case, I think Gates is engaging in character assassination and probaably misquoting or misreading Trump's questions.