Sanders then said that the three wealthiest men in the United States, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg had sat behind the president at his inauguration, adding that their wealth has increased by $233 billion since Trump won the 2024 presidential election. "They couldn't be happier," Sanders said.

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang are among those expected to hit trillionaire status, with Oxfam suggesting that there will be five within the next 10 years. Within the next ten years five people will hold the title of trillionaire—with a 13-figure fortune to their name—according to a new study from Oxfam.

Major tech companies like Meta, Apple, Google and TikTok were represented in the front row at Trump's second presidential inauguration.

Former NHL player Wayne Gretzky was in attendance with his wife, Janet Jones. Trump has teased the former Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers star. On Christmas Day, Trump urged Gretzky to become the next prime minister of Canada.

Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, will be sworn in Monday as the 47th U.S. president.

Telsa, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk arrives for the Inauguration of Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC (Picture: Getty Images)

Trump's former chief strategist told ABC Sunday he believes the billionaires' inauguration attendance is an "official surrender" to the next administration.

Among the guests at Donald Trump's second inauguration in Washington, D.C. today were three billionaire tech CEOs: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. They were also joined by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon gushed about one-time rival Elon Musk on Wednesday, as he revealed that he and the mega Trump ally have made amends in their years-long feud. “The guy is our Einstein,” Dimon told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos,

Some of the world's most prominent business leaders went to Washington for President Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony.

France's newspaper of record joins The Guardian in exiting the site formerly known as Twitter over Musk's increasingly extreme politics.