Apple CEO Tim Cook Attends White House Dinner With Saudi Crown Prince

Apple CEO Tim Cook attended a White House meal that U.S. President Donald Trump arranged for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, reports The New York Times.


The meal marked Prince Mohammed's archetypal sojourn to the United States since the October 2018 execution of writer and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency determined that the prince ordered the killing astatine the Saudi consulate successful Istanbul. Ahead of the dinner, U.S. President Donald Trump defended the prince and said "A batch of radical didn't similar that man that you're talking about," erstwhile responding to a question from a newsman that asked astir Khashoggi.

Cook previously met Prince Mohammed successful April 2018 to sermon acquisition and app improvement opportunities successful Saudi Arabia. Apple has since invested $2 cardinal successful Saudi Arabian companies, and Cook past visited the state successful December 2024.

Apple launched an online store successful Saudi Arabia in July 2025, and it plans to unfastened retail locations successful the state successful 2026.

Other tech attendees included X CEO Elon Musk, Dell CEO Michael Dell, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and AMD CEO Linda Su.
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