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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he’s ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, pictured, speaks with SoftBank Crew CEO Masayoshi Son at an match in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2025.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X Friday, pronouncing he reveals himself “politically homeless” because the Democratic celebration is not aligned with encouraging a “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.”

Altman, whose corporate is a pace-setter in synthetic knowledge, made the submit in birthday celebration of the Fourth of July, pronouncing he’s “extremely proud to be an American” and believes the U.S. “is the greatest country ever on Earth.”

He worn the submit to proportion a few of his political ideology, pronouncing he believes in “techno-capitalism.”

“We should encourage people to make tons of money and then also find ways to widely distribute wealth and share the compounding magic of capitalism,” he wrote. “One doesn’t work without the other; you cannot raise the floor and not also raise the ceiling for very long.”

Altman, 40, mentioned he’s believed this ideology since he used to be 20, and that Democrats have been aligned with it upcoming however have since misplaced the plot and feature utterly “moved somewhere else at this point.”

“I’d rather hear from candidates about how they are going to make everyone have the stuff billionaires have instead of how they are going to eliminate billionaires,” Altman wrote.

That remark seems to were according to Untouched York Town Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who this moment mentioned he does now not suppose billionaires will have to exist.

“I don’t think we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality and ultimately what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country,” Mamdani mentioned on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”

GWN has reached out to Mamdani’s marketing campaign for touch upon Altman’s observation.

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