Trump in major Elon Musk snub as full Rose Garden's dinner list emerges

Tesla CEO and former Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk appears to have been snubbed from a big tech dinner taking place at the White House's brand-new Rose Garden. US President Donald Trump will host overnight over two dozen high-profile figures at the White House, including Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and OpenAI founder Sam Altman. The dinner follows a separate event hosted by First Lady Melania Trump on Artificial Intelligence.

"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 said in a statement to The Hill. "The president looks forward to welcoming top business, political, and tech leaders for this dinner and the many dinners to come on the new, beautiful Rose Garden patio." President Trump's party in the brand new Rose Garden comes after several years of renovation that began during his first term in office. The party will also mark the first time the stone patio takes centre stage as a setting for an event instead of the lawn.

The Rose Garden is usually used to host events, bill signings and speeches.

Musk appears to have been notably left off the list of invitees.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reportedly teased the event last month, saying that the garden was ready for an event and even gave the press pool a glimpse of the president testing out new speakers for "what will be the best event in the history of the White House." Leavitt also added that the next party will take place "hopefully soon."

Musk being left off the guest list suggests the relationship between the tech billionaire and the US leader is still tumoltuous. The pair became embroiled in a feud regarding the president's "Big, Beautiful Bill."

• Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg,
• Apple CEO Tim Cook,
• Microsoft founder Bill Gates
• OpenAI founder Sam Altman
• Sergey Brin, founder of Google
• Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
• Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle
• David Limp, CEO of Blue Origin
• Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron Technology
• Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI
• Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
• Vivek Ranadive, founder of Tibco and owner of the Sacramento Kings
• Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir
• Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale.ai and head of super intelligence at Meta.
• David Sacks, a venture capitalist who has been tasked as the White House czar on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency
• Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4

Several businessmen who have supported the president have also been invited to attend the party. The list includes several companies that adjusted their polices to comply with the president's DEI initiatives.

• Jason Chang, founder of CSBio
• Nathalie Dompé, CEO of Dompé Pharma
• Dylan Field, founder of Figma
• John Hering, cofounder of Vy Capital
• Sunny Madra, president of Groq
• Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital
• Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga
• Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring
• Lisa Su, CEO of advanced Micro Devices