'Everybody wants to be my friend,' Trump says of tech CEOs


The president-elect had a mixed record with top business leaders during his first White House term. — Reuters

Donald Trump said he’s being embraced by business executives – in a stark reversal from when he first won the White House eight years ago – as tech executives and founders flock to Florida to meet with the president-elect.

"We have a lot of great executives coming in, the top executives, the top bankers, they’re all calling,” Trump said at a press conference Monday in Florida, adding that he recently met with billionaire Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Alphabet Inc’s Google.

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