The largest names in enterprise and politics have been already scrambling to point out their help for President Donald Trump at his inauguration — and the swearing in ceremony’s last-minute transfer indoors made it the most well liked ticket on the town.
The worldwide elite combined with Washington’s largest energy gamers within the Capitol Rotunda to observe Trump take the oath of workplace because the nation’s forty seventh president, an intimate viewers of what seemed to be just some hundred, whereas tens of 1000’s of Trump’s supporters, a lot of whom had traveled to the nation’s capital for the historic day, gathered as a substitute on the close by Capital One Area.
Listed below are the VIPs we noticed.
The inauguration introduced Silicon Valley to Washington, with the CEOs of the world’s largest tech companies getting primo placement on the inaugural seating chart. Seated collectively have been Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse, Priscilla Chan; Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancee Lauren Sánchez; Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai; and Trump mega donor Elon Musk. Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner and Google co-founder Sergey Brin have been seated elsewhere within the rotunda.
Additionally within the crowd have been some standard attendees at presidential inaugurations, together with the 4 residing former presidents (together with former President Joe Biden) and their wives. Notably absent was former first woman Michelle Obama, whose workplace mentioned she wouldn’t attend earlier this week. Former Vice President Kamala Harris — Trump’s 2024 challenger — and her husband, Doug Emhoff, have been additionally in attendance.
Among the different VIPs included Susie Wiles, Trump’s White Home chief of employees, and Miriam Adelson, certainly one of his largest donors. And as per custom, all 9 Supreme Court docket justices have been current.
Different huge names within the rotunda included the conservative firebrand and unofficial Trump adviser Tucker Carlson, the podcaster Joe Rogan and Charlie Kirk, the Turning Level USA founder. Trump’s household had distinguished placement, as did Beverly Aikins, the mom of Vice President JD Vance and a key character in his memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’
