Trump has new billionaire best buddy…and he’s set to be even more powerful than exiled Elon Musk

After the dramatic rise and fall of President Donald Trump’s partnership with Elon Musk, the former boss of Doge was exiled to the sidelines and is forced to look at his sworn enemy, the general manager of Openai, Sam Altman, could potentially take his place.

Altman and Musk had one of the most publicly brutal benefits in the world of technology when they went from partners to enemies in 2018.

The two founded Openai together in 2015 as a non -profit organization to ensure that the landscape of artificial intelligence has remained ethical in the midst of technological progress.

However, due to the models of competitors from Google and Amazon, Openai has gone to a public benefits company, which Musk exploded for removing the original commercial model.

The CEO of Tesla left the company in 2018, and a bitter quarrel was engaged between the two while Musk founded its own IA, Xai business.

He then became one of the most powerful men in government after having assumed the post of head of the Ministry of Efficiency of the Trump government.

The alliance with the president left Altman on the sidelines while his billionaire cohorts, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Musk, seemed only to get closer to Trump.

But Musk fell spectacularly with Trump on the major bill of the president, which, according to Musk, is a waste. Musk’s statements that Trump was in Jeffrey Epstein’s files saw him launch further in Siberia. Trump was swallowed up by the Epstein scandal about the statements he pulled the magnate a “debauchery” birthday photo of a naked woman.

And of this chaos, Altman was able to emerge as a new Trump favorite technology magnate, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Sam Altman (right) apparently moved his policy while the initiates revealed to the Wall Street Journal that the billionaire is looking for a stronger link with Trump

Altman has already been relegated to the touch due to Musk’s proximity to Trump

Musk and Altman fell in 2018 after the two founded Openai together. Since then, they have frequently exploded publicly (photo: Musk and Altman in a panel in California in 2015)

Musk and the president was sidelined in the midst of a public school quarrel, Altman apparently adopted the position of expert AI closest to the president.

His company OPENAI – which owns Chatgpt – is considered to have one of the most brilliant future in the booming AI industry, with a fortune of $ 1.8 billion in Altman likely to skyrocket.

Altman White House appearance

The relationship has an opportunity for Altman to have greater presence in the government’s government regulations.

The day after Trump’s inauguration, Altman joined Masayoshi Son, president of Softbank and the founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, to announce a massive $ 500 billion project of interrogation called Stargate.

The initiative will create AI infrastructure across the country, focusing on building data centers and the training of new models.

Familiar sources with the project told the New York Times that Stargate was in preparation for months, but was timed to follow the inauguration of Trump so that the president can attribute the merit.

Altman thanked Trump during the announcement, adding: “We could not do this without you, Mr. President.”

Musk attacked the X agreement, saying that Softbank did not have the funds for the massive infrastructure project and said it was wrong.

Altman retaliated that Musk was wrong and criticized the chief Doge: “ I realize what is great for the country is not always what is optimal for your businesses, but in your new role, I hope you will put mainly [America] First of all.’

Asked about the exchange at the time, Trump told journalists: “The government does not put anything. They are very rich people. Elon does not like one of these people.

“People from the agreement are very, very intelligent people, but Elon – one of the people he hates. But I also have some hatred of people, he added.

In June, Trump presented Altman in his New Jersey Golf Club, calling the technology magnate a “brilliant man”, adding, “I hope he is right on AI”.

Altman thanked the president at a press conference in January by announcing the Stargate project

Altman (on the far right) appeared alongside Masayoshi Son, the president of Softbank (Middle) and the founder of Oracle Larry Ellison (speaking on the podium) to announce a massive AI project of $ 500 billion called Stargate

Break links with DEMS

The new friendship was somewhat surprising given the long -standing allegiance from Altman to the Democratic Party.

He approved Hillary Clinton in 2016 and previously compared Trump to Adolf Hitler. Altman also donated to the Biden re -election campaign in 2023.

But while the technology industry was starting to move to the right, Altman finally followed suit and fell back on his Trump reviews.

When Musk republished old altman tweets criticizing the president, the executive of Openai brushed them, explaining that his opinions had changed.

“ Watching @potus more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him (I would have liked to have made more of my own thought and definitively fell into the NPC [non-player character] Trap), ”wrote Altman.

“I will not agree with him on everything, but I think he will be incredible for the country in many ways!”

On the last day of independence, Altman solidified his departure from the Democratic Party, accusing them of “losing the plot”.

He said he was not a republican and identified his partisanry as “politically homeless”.

Altman also moved away from the Democratic Party, declaring himself “ politically homeless ” on July 4

Musk criticized the Stargate project and criticized the president to have excessive expenses in his “Big Beautiful Bill”

Contant to Trump

The political affiliation and the previous quarrel of Altman with Musk initially put it at a distance from the president.

He was relegated to the inauguration room of the inauguration of Trump, sitting far from Zuckerberg, Bezos and the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai.

Musk and Zuckerberg also met Trump in Mar-A-Lago after being re-elected, but Altman was able to mark only a meeting with the candidate of trade secretary Howard Luxe.

Sources told Wall Street Journal that the meeting was tense and that Lutnick had shouted in Altman to “be a left”.

Sources told the newspaper that Optai then hired the lobbyist Jeff Miller and Trump’s campaign advisor Chris Lacivita, who helped integrate Altman into the world of Maga.

Altman and other Openai leaders also met Trump last year in a Hotel in Las Vegas to reveal Sora, artificial intelligence for the generation of videos, sources in the newspaper said.

After Stargate’s announcement, Altman’s influence seemed solidified and, in May, the project launched a data center in Abu Dhabi.

On June 16, Openai announced a contract agreement with the Pentagon, potentially signaling the domination of Altman in the industry.

While Altman was getting closer to the White House, Musk left his position in Doge, launching a series of online attacks against Trump, saying that he was on the Epstein list ” and slamming the president’s “big bill”.