Billionaire technology CEOs met with some of the top establishment Republican figures this weekend at the American Enterprise Institute's yearly World Forum. One of the topics of discussion? How to stop Trump's seemingly inevitable nomination.

When the top billionaire leaders of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Tesla meet with the most powerful elected Republican officials in on an island off the coast of Georgia, people talk. According to unnamed sources for the Huffington Post, exactly that happened this weekend.

The World Forum, an annual gathering of political and business elites put together by neoconservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), took place over the weekend.

Among the participants of the exclusive gathering, according to the unnamed sources, were the following: Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster founder and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Elon Musk -- known for his futuristic endeavors like Telsa Motors and Space X.

Also at the gathering were Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, former campaign chief for George W. Bush Karl Rove, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and a potpourri of other national elected GOP officials from the House and Senate. Among other participants were the publisher of the New York Times Arthur Sulzberger, billionaire GOP donor Philip Anschutz, and Democratic Rep. John Delaney.

To say this was a gathering of America's most powerful is putting it mildly.

Elites Want to Trample Trump

The main topic of discussion -- besides a reportedly intense disagreement about Apple's battle with the FBI over iPhone encryption and the San Bernardino case -- was none other than Donald Trump; specifically, what the Silicon Valley giants and GOP elites could do to stop him.

Rove reportedly gave a presentation about a focus group study he had conducted regarding Trump, looking for weak points in the brash billionaire's seemingly impenetrable armor. The best point of attack, Rove found, was that voters didn't see Trump as a "presidential" personality -- someone voters' children should look up to as a role model. His erratic tendencies also made focus group participants nervous about President Trump having control over America's nuclear arsenal.

No Grand Plan

But don't misapprehend that AEI and Silicon Valley came up with a grand plan to take Trump out of the running for the Republican Presidential nomination. The elites at the secretive off-the-record gathering apparently remained just as flummoxed by Trump's rise as everyone else.

One anonymous source said that much of the conversation centering around Trump was "how this happened, rather than how we are going to stop him."

William Kristol, editor of the conservative magazine "The Weekly Standard," was at the AEI meeting, and emailed a short report from the conference, stating that the focus was squarely on Trump.

"A specter was haunting the World Forum -- the specter of Donald Trump," he wrote, using phraseology from the Communist Manifesto, of all sources. "There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why he's done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated."

"The key task now, to once again paraphrase Karl Marx, is less to understand Trump than to stop him," Kristol continued. "In general, there's a little too much hand-wringing, brow-furrowing, and fatalism out there and not quite enough resolving to save the party from nominating or the country electing someone who simply shouldn't be president."