Tech Billionaires, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg will attend U.S President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, according to reports.
The CEOs of Tesla, Amazon, and Meta will be prominently featured at Trump’s swearing-in ceremony, sitting alongside the Republican Cabinet nominees and other elected leaders.
Mr Bezos’ Amazon and Mr Zuckerberg’s Meta are among the companies that have donated to Trump’s inauguration, each giving US$1 million (S$1.3 million).
Musk – the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and the majority owner of X – has become one of Trump’s closest allies.
Musk shares Trump’s hard-right politics and put millions of dollars into supporting his presidential campaign.
Donald Trump has tapped Musk to co-lead an advisory commission aiming to slash federal spending and bureaucracy, which while dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE,” will not be an official US agency.
Meta CEO Zuckerberg signalled a rightward political swerve last week when he announced Facebook and Instagram would scrap fact-checking in the United States, a response to what he characterised as censorship by governments and so-called legacy media.
The founder of Amazon also owns The Washington Post, one of the many newspapers Donald Trump has railed against for years.
