Articles about Donald Trump

Your startup builds clean energy tech, but Trump loves fossil fuels – here are some keys to survival

President-elect Donald Trump is a champion of fossil fuels and calls President Biden’s New-Deal style programs for battling climate change… Read More

Bezos calls Musk’s latest jab ‘100% not true’ as space rivals renew social media spat

The more things change the more they stay the same — at least when it comes to the recurring social… Read More

Podcast

Podcast: What Trump 2.0 means for tech, Diller nixes Expedia + Uber, and a GeekWire fall update

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, it’s a grab-bag of topics, including self-driving wheelchairs, Expedia Group Chairman Barry Diller’s comments… Read More

Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump on ‘extraordinary’ comeback, wishes him success in uniting America

Jeff Bezos wasted no time in sending his good wishes to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday morning, hours after Trump’s… Read More

BE-4 engines on Blue Origin New Glenn booster.

Space shots: A tangled web of speculation surrounds Boeing, Blue Origin and Bezos

Is Boeing thinking about unloading some of its space projects? Is Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture a potential buyer?… Read More

Jeff Bezos blamed for spiking Washington Post’s presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris

The Washington Post is getting out of the business of endorsing candidates for president, starting with the upcoming election between… Read More

Amazon’s Twitch reinstates Trump account three years after suspension over Jan. 6 violence

Amazon-owned Twitch has reinstated the account of Donald Trump, three years after the former president was suspended indefinitely by the… Read More

After Trump shooting, UW researchers try to make quick sense of online reaction, rumors and more

The chaos and confusion in the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump led many people… Read More

AI tools help journalists assess authenticity of images in immediate aftermath of Trump shooting

Journalists used artificial intelligence to check the authenticity of images from the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in… Read More

Microsoft to invest $3.3B in Wisconsin AI data center as Biden hits at Trump over jobs creation

Microsoft plans to invest $3.3 billion in an artificial intelligence-related initiative in Wisconsin, giving a boost to President Joe Biden’s… Read More

Former Washington Post chief Marty Baron on what it was like working for Jeff Bezos

Inside the Seattle-area home of their new boss, a group of Washington Post leaders nervously waited as Jeff Bezos silently… Read More

Biden Administration taps Washington state’s Kim Wyman to lead national election security effort

The Biden administration has tapped Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman to lead a national effort to curb foreign and… Read More

Podcast

‘This has not happened before’: Tech historian on Trump, social media, and an unprecedented moment in American history

Twitter’s decision Friday to join Facebook in permanently suspending President Trump’s account underscored the fundamental role of social media in… Read More

Amazon tears into Trump after Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft as winner of $10B JEDI cloud contract

[Updated at 3 p.m. Pacific on Friday, Sept. 4.] Amazon issued a searing response Friday to the Department of Defense’s… Read More

Microsoft confirms TikTok talks after Trump and Nadella speak, sets Sept. 15 deadline for deal

Microsoft broke its silence on its interest in acquiring hit social video app TikTok in the United States in a… Read More

After sparking consternation at NASA, Trump campaign pulls ad featuring SpaceX launch

An online advertisement that plays off last weekend’s historic crewed SpaceX launch to boost President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign drew… Read More

After seeing milestone launch, President Trump hails space effort as a force for ‘pride and unity’

President Donald Trump held up America’s space effort as a unifying endeavor for a divided nation after becoming only the… Read More

Trump says he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, a drug being tested in two studies at Univ. of Washington

President Donald Trump said today that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that’s being tested as a COVID-19 treatment at… Read More

Jeff Bezos and Satya Nadella join White House’s coronavirus industry groups

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and President Donald Trump aren’t exactly the best of friends, but that didn’t stop the White… Read More

President Donald Trump tests negative for coronavirus after a week of controversy

President Donald Trump famously downplayed the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak at first, but now he’s been tested to see… Read More

Trump says he’s considering restrictions on domestic travel from coronavirus hotspots

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, restrictions on European travel will be extended to Britain and Ireland on Monday –… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: We (almost) hacked the election; Amazon vs. Trump; cashless stadiums

Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast: Voting online is fast, convenient and also … vulnerable.… Read More

Star Trek’s George Takei tweaks President Trump over Space Force’s trekky new seal

We don’t know whether Mr. Spock would have cocked an eyebrow over the Starfleet-like U.S. Space Force seal that was… Read More

‘He does good at rockets’: President Trump pays tangled tribute to Elon Musk’s tech triumphs

President Donald Trump is said to be closely watching the impeachment proceedings on Capitol Hill, but he’s also watching what… Read More

President Trump signs the Space Force into existence under the Air Force’s wing

Amid military fanfare, President Donald Trump signed a defense authorization bill into law to create the U.S. Space Force as… Read More

Microsoft President Brad Smith pushes back on Trump administration’s Huawei ban

Microsoft President Brad Smith wants to see more evidence behind the Trump administration’s reasoning for cutting off Chinese tech giant… Read More

How the growing U.S.-China trade war is forcing tech and product companies to get creative

Months ago, long before President Donald Trump “hereby ordered” U.S. companies to find places other than China to make their… Read More

Trump ushers in U.S. Space Command, with Space Force (or Corps) in the works

President Donald Trump today hailed the revival of the U.S. Space Command to protect America’s technological assets on the final… Read More

Huawei cuts jobs at Seattle-area research division as part of larger layoff

Chinese tech giant Huawei is shedding 41 jobs at its Bellevue, Wash.-based engineering office, according to a notice filed with… Read More

White House rewrites AI research strategy to prioritize public-private partnerships

The Trump administration is updating the Obama administration’s strategy for artificial intelligence to put more emphasis on public-private partnerships like… Read More