Tech titan who backed Trump brutally skewered after elections U-turn: ‘Pandering POS’

The midterm elections this month saw a Democratic blowout of GOP candidates even in deep-red territory — and now, one tech figure who once buddied up to President Donald Trump seems to be changing his tune accordingly.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp, in a new interview with Politico, bragged about his lefty bona fides and claimed he’d back a Democrat for president, sparking widespread mockery for the seemingly shameless flip-flop.

“I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir — all of our products are essentially progressive,” Karp said.

It was only a year ago that many had viewed him as a right-wing ally.

Karp’s company Palantir Technologies, a secretive data analytics giant, had contracts with the Trump administration that included assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the now-shuttered Department of Government Efficiency.

He even claimed that his company was the first to be “completely anti-woke” last year, alongside multiple instances where he has defended Republican President Trump.

The New Hampshire-born tech exec even once blasted the Dems as “completely irresponsible.”

“He has clearly shifted to the right, although he would probably say that he didn’t leave the left — the left left him,” Michael Steinberger, author of “The Philosopher in the Valley,” told The New York Post last year.

But now, after the midterms, Karp told Politico that Democrats “absolutely” corrected in 2026 enough to win back his support in 2028.

The data analytics boss, who’s worth an estimated $18 billion, clarified he will not back any member of the Democratic Socialists of America. But he also mused to Politico about the failures of capitalism.

“‘What are you gonna do about economic justice in this country?’ And I would say the Democrats have an advantage here because for many Republicans there’s an orthodoxy that capitalism solves all problems,” Karp said.

“Maybe that was once true. I never thought it was true. It’s definitely not true now. And so basically everyone center, center-left understands this,” he added.

Karp said Trump made mistakes in his second term, pointing to the president’s recent remarks that his immigration policy went too far.

“I’m glad he’s saying in public now what I’ve been saying in private,” Karp claimed.

The tech titan’s shifting political allegiance had many in the public and on social media disgusted with what they perceived as opportunism.

“Did he make a comment remotely close to this in the last 3 years? What a pandering POS,” wrote one user.

“Oh… tech sociopath who has been sucking up to Trump is now considering backing Democrats?
How very opportunistic of Karp!” another posted.

Many noted that since his company relies heavily on government contracts, it only made business sense for him to please whoever is in power.

But the switcheroo may not work, warned one user by the name of Thomas Chadowski:

“The Democrats are still coming after you for supporting DHS and we won’t forget you walking back your support for immigration enforcement,” he said.

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