Managing Director, including some of Trump's critics, joined him for lunch in Riad

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President Donald Trump, Saudi leaders and numerous managing directors gave a lunch at the Saudi Royal Court in Riad the opportunity to rub his shoulders on Tuesday.

The Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was hosting lunch.

The lunch was part of Trump's high-stakes tour through the Persian Golf region and aimed at business transactions and strategic partnerships with three oil-rich nations AB-Audi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

American CEOs Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Larry Fink compete on the Saudi Royal Court

A list received by Fox Business and Media Reports on Tuesday showed that the lunch in Riad was present some managers, including the following people, some of whom have been critical of Trump in the past.

Openai CEO Sam Altman

The Openai CEO Sam Altman, Center, and the chairman of the immunity bio executives Patrick Soon-Shiong, on the right, are waiting to meet the Saudi crown prince on the Royal Court on May 13, 2025 in Riad. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Altman, once a critic of Trump and contributors of Joe Biden's presidential campaign, was photographed at the Saudi Royal Court. In January, the Openai CEO wrote that “@potus has recently changed my point of view to him”, which Trump adds, “will be incredible for the country in many ways”, although Altman's “does not agree with him”.

Scale Ai -Ceo Alexandr Wang

“A good discussion about the AI leadership with President Trump and my colleagues from the entire AI industry. Thank you also for our Saudi hosts,” wrote Wang on Tuesday in an X -Post and shared a screenshot of a news program that shows him shaking his hand.

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Ki -CEO from Skala, testifies to the under -committee for domestic disputes with cyber, information technologies and innovations on artificial intelligence on the Capitol Hill 18 July 2023 in Washington, DC, about artificial intelligence (Drew Angerer / Getty Images / Getty Images)

Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Senior Advisor of US President Elon Musk (L), and Jensen Huang (C), CEO of Nvidia

Elon Musk, a senior advisor of the President, on the left, and Nvidia -Ceo Jensen Huang, Center, are instructed to welcome the Saudi Crown Prince on the Royal Court on May 13, 2025 in Riyadh. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Musk was an important supporter of Trump during the 2024 election campaign cycle. When the president took office in January, Musk became the head of the administrative ministry for government efficiency.

Google Cio Ruth Porat

Ruth Porat took part in the meeting “Curiosity, Wonder and Reverse” on September 19, 2023 in New York Hilton Midtown on September 19, 2023. (Getty Images / Getty Images)

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

Jassy, a participant in lunch, was also a speaker in the Saudi US investment forum in the capital of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, during the Geekwire Summit in Seattle October 5, 2021. (David Ryder / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Palantir CEO Alex Karp

Karps Palantir is a large software company. He was a co -founder in the early 2000s.

Alex Karp and Andrew Ross Sorkin speak for national competitiveness in Walter E. Washington Convention Center on May 7, 2024 in Washington, DC (Tasos Katopodis / Getty pictures for Palantir / Getty pictures)

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick

Kalanick previously headed Uber from 2010 to 2017. He was also one of his co -founders.

Travis Kalanick visits the MET GALA 2019 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art May 6, 2019 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Wirmage)

CEO of epic games Tim Sweeney

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, will come before the US district court on May 20, 2021 million in Oakland, California. (Philip Pacheco / Getty Images / Getty Images)

In January, SWEENEY led some “big Tech leaders” as “now to be a republican, in the hope of favoring the new administration”. He said he would be careful in front of the SCMY Monopoly campaign to slander competition law while tearing down consumers and crushing competitors. “

Alcoa CEO William Oplinger

The hill reported on the White House that Oplinger was one of the business people who took part in lunch. He spoke critically about the tariffs of the Trump government and said at the end of February that tariffs “destroy about 20,000 direct jobs from the US aluminum industry and lead to 80,000 indirect jobs in the United States”.

President Donald J. Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman take part in the Saudi Royal Court on May 13, 2025. (Win McNamee / Getty Images / Getty Images)

Lunch comprised over 30 managing directors from a variety of industries. The hill reported.

Trump condemns “interventionists”, “Pitches” more hopeful future “in the speech of the Middle East

According to reports, the democratic supporter and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman received an invitation to lunch, but he was “not in Riad”, according to a X-post of his head of staff.

With regard to his visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Trump said about Truthsocial that it was a “big day”.

Greg Norman contributed to this report.