Trump Meetings Are Like Getting Drunk and Waterboarding Yourself, Ex-Twitter CEO Says

Dick Costolo took to Twitter to shed his opinion of what a gathering of tech leaders and the POTUS would be like

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Not all entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are thrilled with the idea of taking a meeting with President Trump. Take former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, for example, who likens the experience to getting drunk and “waterboard[ing] yourself.”

When word got around that the White House was pulling together a meeting with Silicon Valley technology leaders to discuss emerging trends including commercial drones, the Internet of Things and the funding of those companies, Costolo took to Twitter to shed some light on such a gathering.

“If you don’t get invited to this meeting and want to know what it was like, just drink a bottle of gin and then waterboard yourself,” Costolo wrote.

In December, the then president-elect met with a few tech industry leaders — including Elon Musk (Tesla), Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) and Eric Schmidt and Larry Page (Alphabet) — to relieve worry they may have had about his incoming administration’s position on H1-B visas. Axios AM has reported that the POTUS has again reached out to Silicon Valley in hopes of creating better digital services for the federal government.

But Costolo shouldn’t worry too much about getting an invitation this time around, considering how freely he voices his opinion of the new president (and his offspring). Take a look:

Rosemary Rossi

Rosemary joined TheWrap in 2016 after more than two decades covering entertainment for American Media and Bauer Publishing as West Coast Editor and as the Hollywood Correspondent for Australia’s Horowitz Graham Publishing. In addition, she reviewed films and television, sized up trends and penned a weekly tongue-in-cheek column called “Hollywood’s Worst Ideas This Week” for…

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