Harold Hamm, the billionaire oilman and shale pioneer, was additionally praised by the president. “Harold Hamm. He places a straw into the bottom a
Harold Hamm, the billionaire oilman and shale pioneer, was additionally praised by the president. “Harold Hamm. He places a straw into the bottom and oil pours out.”
“He’s been with me from the start,” Mr. Trump stated.
Happy by his success with China, Mr. Trump teased Nelson Peltz, the activist investor, about his investment in General Electric, and he mused that the monetary disaster may not have occurred a decade in the past if Maurice Greenberg, who was within the viewers, had remained on the American Worldwide Group.
Mr. Peltz, talking to reporters alongside Mr. Trump after the occasion, remarked that it was a “world-shaking occasion right now.”
At occasions, Mr. Trump was upset when he couldn’t spot a pleasant face he was looking for within the crowd.
“I can’t consider Rupert shouldn’t be right here,” Mr. Trump stated of Rupert Murdoch, the Fox mogul, who helped gasoline the president’s rise. “Rupert is improbable, and the entire household is only a nice household.”
The gilded viewers grated some on social media, who mocked Mr. Trump’s overt embrace of the wealthy with Twitter hashtags equivalent to “#billionairesSellingtochina.” However for Mr. Trump, who will journey subsequent week to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Financial Discussion board, it was clear that billionaires are additionally his base.
4 years in the past, Mr. Trump mocked hedge fund managers as talentless paper pushers who had been “getting away with homicide.” However on Wednesday, he was looking for out Ken Griffin, the billionaire hedge fund supervisor who runs Citadel, for a verbal embrace.
“Ken Griffin, Citadel. What a man he’s. The place are you, Ken? The place the hell is he?” Mr. Trump questioned. “He’s attempting to cover a few of his cash. Look, he doesn’t need to arise. The place the hell is Ken?”