President Donald Trump is slated to host tech figures for the first event at the revamped White House Rose Garden on Thursday night, but one of the nation's preeminent business magnates, Elon Musk, is not on the invite list, a White House official confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta founder, chair and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates are on the list, according to The Hill , which indicated that it obtained the list.
Some of the others in the mix include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the outlet reported.
"The Rose Garden Club at the White House is the hottest place to be in Washington, or perhaps the world," White House spokesperson Davis Ingle