TechGods of Spying (Palantir's Alex Karp & Shyam Sankar) and War (Anduril's Palmer Luckey) joined other insiders at the White House Dinner as part of the U.S. Japan summit. Financial juggernauts BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Softbank and Mastercard were represented. Las Vegas Sands, Open AI, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries executives also attended.
Most of the private equity underwriters (PEU) who attended did so in their professional role within the Trump Administration, J.D. Vance (Narya Capital), Howard Lutnick (GCM Grosvenor), Doug Burgum (Arthur Ventures) and Scott Bessent (Key Square Capital). Senator Bill Hagerty (Haggerty Peterson & Co) was also at the White House dinner.
TechGod and PEU Peter Theil is an investor in both companies, Palantir and Anduril. He met with the Japanese Prime Minister weeks before the White House visit where Trump II compared the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran to Pearl Harbor for its surprise nature.
There is a different surprise attack going on. Polticians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one and they are taking all the spoils.
Update 3-22-26: Alex Karp's Palantir has the corner on domestic surveillance. Take that, Anthropic!
