Meta CEO and alleged human being Mark Zuckerberg got caught by a hot mic kowtowing to president Donald Trump in the most flagrant manner imaginable.

The gaffe occurred at a White House dinner on Thursday evening attended by some of the biggest leaders in tech, including Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Apple's Tim Cook. The CEOs and sundry were called upon by Trump to extoll their commitments to invest astronomical sums of money for building AI infrastructure in the US.

Come Zuckerberg's turn, he was clearly was not prepared.

"How much are you spending, would you say, over the next few years?" Trump asked.

"Oh gosh," Zuckerberg said. "Um, I mean I think it's probably going to be something, like, I don't know, at least $600 billion through '28 in the US. Yeah."

Moments later, when

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