The most important technology magnates in the United States were protagonists in the inauguration of Donald Trump
The billionaire owners of the main American technology companies, including Elon Musk of Tesla, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jef Bezos of Amazon, They took front-line positions at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, in an unprecedented display of their power and influence in the White House.
These tech moguls, whose companies are among the most valuable in the world, have spent the ten weeks since the US election courting Trump’s favor, marking a dramatic shift in stance from Silicon Valley’s more hostile response to their first term four years ago.
Among those attending were also Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai along with the founder of that search engine, Sergey Brin. The CEO of the TikTok platform, Shou Chew, He sat in the back row of the stage, even as the future of his platform in the United States remains uncertain.
On Sunday, TikTok thanked Trump for promising a decree to save the app from a ban on US territory, although its fate is still unclear while it is under full ownership of the Chinese company ByteDance, defying a law passed by Congress.
Even though seating was very limited after the ceremony was moved inside the Capitol due to the cold, Meta CEO Zuckerberg attended with his wife Priscilla Chan, while Bezos was accompanied by his girlfriend Lauren Sánchez.
His prominent positions on the inauguration stage, more visible even than those of many Cabinet members, were particularly notable to Zuckerberg, whom Trump had threatened with life in prison just months earlier.
Zuckerberg recently made headlines by aligning his company’s policies with the Trump’s worldview in particular by eliminating the information and content verification service -factchecking- in the United States and relaxing the restrictions on hate speech against diversity on the Facebook and Instagram networks.
Musk has shown the strongest support for Trump, contributing $277 million to the current president’s campaign and transforming its X platform into an amplifier for pro-Trump voices.
The magnate was later appointed to command the new Department of Efficiency Governmental that the new government will create, destined to advise on cuts in public administration.
On your side, Bezos, like Zuckerberg and his peers, visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property (Florida, southeast) before the assumption, with favorable treatment, government contracts and reduced regulatory scrutiny for Amazon in the balance.
Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, sparked controversy by blocking the newspaper’s planned endorsement of Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris for the 2024 election, sparking protests among journalists and customers.
