Some of the most exclusive seats at President Donald Trump’s inauguration were reserved for powerful tech CEOs who also are among the world’s richest men.

Trump's inauguration drew several business and tech CEOs, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and TikTok's Shou Zi Chew.

Getting humans to Mars has long been an obsession for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised he would “pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts who plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.

As Donald Trump prepares to be sworn in for his second term, a bevy of political leaders, tech CEOs, celebrities and others are in attendance in the U.S. Capitol.

Jeff Bezos, from second left, Donald Trump Jr., Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk, Usha Vance, Doug Burgum and Vice President JD Vance applaud during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of ...

Trump has embraced the ultra wealthy as well as tariffs and other policies that could stoke the inflation he criticized as a candidate.

President Donald Trump’s brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the U.S. economy’s trajectory, could never afford to live in his Manhattan skyscraper or visit his club in south Florida.

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Silicon Valley loudly criticized President Donald Trump when he quit the climate accord in his first term. This time? Crickets.

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is overseeing a new Department of Government Efficiency. Billionaires or mega-millionaires are lined up to run the treasury, commerce, interior and education departments, NASA and the Small Business Administration, and fill key foreign posts.

ATLANTA: US President Donald Trump's brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the economy's trajectory,

While campaigning in August, Donald Trump‘s VP pick, then-Senator JD Vance (R-OH), told Face the Nation that big tech needs to be broken up. As the new U.S. Vice President, Vance returned Sunday to Face the Nation where host Margaret Brennan reminded him of his comment and asked if his opinion has changed after Big Tech CEOs — Meta’s Mark Zuckerburg,