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Bill Gates: 'It was scary how much Donald Trump knew about my daughter'

<em>Bill Gates was left unsettled by how much Donald Trump knew about his daughter’s appearance (Pictures: Getty)</em>
Bill Gates was left unsettled by how much Donald Trump knew about his daughter’s appearance (Pictures: Getty)

Bill Gates was left unsettled by how much Donald Trump knew about his daughter, he has revealed.

The Microsoft co-founder said the President knew a “scary” amount about his daughter’s looks, and revealed how he once returned via helicopter to a horse show where she was, despite already having been there 20 minutes earlier.

Gates told a recent Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation meeting how Trump had encountered his daughter Jennifer, now 22, at a horse show in Florida.

“And then about 20 minutes later he flew in on a helicopter to the same place,” he said. “So clearly he had been driven away but he wanted to make a grand entrance in a helicopter.”

Gates’ remarks were recorded as he took questions from staff and broadcast on MSNBC’s All in with Chris Hayes show.

<em>Scary – Bill Gates says he found it scary how much Donald Trump knew about his daughter Jennifer (pictured above) when they met (Picture: AP)</em>
Scary – Bill Gates says he found it scary how much Donald Trump knew about his daughter Jennifer (pictured above) when they met (Picture: AP)

The billionaire philanthropist, who met the now-US President for the first time in New York in December 2016, said: “So when I first talked to him it was actually kind of scary how much he knew about my daughter’s appearance. Melinda [Gates’s wife] didn’t like that too well.”

Gates, who met Mr Trump again last year in the White House, also revealed that he had twice asked him the difference between HIV and HPV.

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“In both of those two meetings, he asked me if vaccines weren’t a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill-effects of vaccines and somebody – I think it was Robert Kennedy Jr – was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things. And I said no, that’s a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don’t do that.

“Both times he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other.”

<em>Melinda Gates was said to not be impressed by the amount Donald Trump knew about her daughter (Picture: AP)</em>
Melinda Gates was said to not be impressed by the amount Donald Trump knew about her daughter (Picture: AP)

In a series of anecdotes that apparently kept the audience amused, Gates also recounted an occasion when Mr Trump caught him off guard with his use of the third person to describe himself.

“When I walked in, his first sentence kind of threw me off. He said: ‘Trump hears that you don’t like what Trump is doing.’ And I thought, ‘Wow, but you’re Trump.’ I didn’t know the third-party form was always expected. ‘Gates says that Gates knows that you’re not doing things right.’”