Politics
Will Elon Musk attend Donald Trump’s inauguration?
President Trump’s second inauguration ceremony will be attended by many of the world’s richest people, all of whom have donated to Trump.

The second inauguration of President Donald Trump will take place at on Monday, January 20, exactly four years after the 45th president vacated the White House.
The inauguration ceremony will be held at the US Capitol building in Washington, DC and will see the President-elect officially sworn in with an oath in accordance with the Constitution. Back in 2017 Trump made a number of outlandish claims about the number of people in attendance to watch him be sworn in. This time around, he may be more focused on a small group of supporters that hold incredible sway.
The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, will certainly be at the inauguration on January 20. Although previously reluctant to support Trump, Musk has become a devotee in recent years and played a prominent role on the campaign trail.

Musk appeared alongside Trump while campaigning in 2024 and has been an increasingly vociferous supporter of the President-elect on social media. In recent months Musk has essentially being living at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago headquarters and he looks set to hold some sort of role in or alongside the incoming administration.
Will Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg be at the inauguration?
Musk was the most high-profile, and the most generous, supporter of Trump’s during the 2024 presidential election campaign. But in some ways the more recent indications of support from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg may be more telling.
As head owner of the Washington Post, Bezos blocked his editorial team from publishing an endorsement of Kamala Harris in 2024 and went on to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook, gave the same seven-figure donation and has announced that he will slash Facebook’s factchecking team and cut back on content moderation efforts.
Bezos and Zuckerberg look more Trump-aligned than ever before and they will likely be present at the inauguration on Monday. The Guardian has even reported that Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg could sit together at the inauguration, a strong visual statement from the three richest people in the world.
Earlier this month Trump was asked whether he believed that his threats against Facebook had prompted Zuckerberg’s abrupt about-turn in content moderation policies. Giving a nod, Trump responded, “Probably, yeah.”
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