Elon Musk embraces Donald Trump throughout a marketing campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Oct. 5, 2024.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
They might be seated on the platform close to cupboard officers and elected leaders, in keeping with an individual accustomed to the planning of the inauguration who spoke to NBC News.
The distinguished attendance of a number of tech luminaries and billionaires at Trump’s inauguration alerts how shortly the expertise trade management has warmed as much as Trump as he takes his second time period as president.
During Trump’s first time period, Bezos often clashed with the president over his possession of The Washington Post, Amazon’s relationship with the USPS and the way a lot tax the tech firm paid. Zuckerberg additionally traded barbs with Trump, significantly over immigration and misinformation.
But as Trump takes workplace for a second time, the expertise trade has contributed to his inaugural fund and a number of other CEOs have praised Trump and supplied nicely needs for his administration.
Musk has joined Trump’s administration in a task overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency, a brand new physique that’s seeking to discover authorities waste and reduce it. He’s additionally hung out with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Amazon and Meta have contributed $1 million each to Trump’s inaugural fund. Google additionally contributed $1 million, CNBC reported final week. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman contributed $1 million, and so has Apple CEO Tim Cook, in keeping with a Axios report that the tech firm has not commented on.
Reps for Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos did not instantly remark to NBC News.
