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Days after Donald Trump took office for the last time in 2017, Google co-founder Sergey Brin joined the protests against the new administration’s immigration policies, saying they threatened America’s “fundamental values.”
On Monday, he joined more than a dozen billionaires in Trump’s second term in office to applaud the man who has vowed to deport millions of immigrants, use US justice to prosecute political opponents and launch tariffs.
Trump Graduation ceremony In the U.S. Capitol, the president emphasized his deep ties to industry titans and the changing stance of business leaders he had previously sneered at. Four of the world’s five richest people are more prominent than their own cabinet members, and some of their spouses sit at the expense of governors and members of Congress.
Elon Muska former Joe Biden supporter who spent a quarter-billion dollars to find Trump He was elected, joining the busy DAI’s meeting with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, who this month criticized Trump for his peace offering on social media, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who stopped approving the newspaper’s editorial board, Kamala Harris.
Yards away, European tycoon Bernard Arnault, head of the LVMH luxury goods empire, India’s Mukesh Ambani and Apple CEO Tim Cook donated $1 million to Trump early in the process, as did other tech executives. He joined cabinet nominees who are billionaires in their own right, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury nominee Scott Bessant.
“The man is the power,” Trump of Lutnick said Monday at the Capital One Forum, where supporters of the president gathered to watch him take the oath of office.
He was followed by Lutnick, who received thunderous applause when he promised to help usher in a “golden age” of Trump.
Demonstrating Musk’s power and influence, the crowd also cheered the billionaire’s reference to Trump’s promise to send astronauts to Mars — a move that benefits Musk’s SpaceX and is considered wasteful and unnecessary by scientists in the US government.
Such displays of corporate power have been frowned upon by some of Trump’s members. Core ‘Maga’ support base. Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, this week hit out at Mook and the tech moguls in the president’s orbit, calling Biden an “oligarch” who was “created by the Democratic Party and the lords of easy money.”
Democrats were also quick to use the spectacle at the inauguration to undermine Trump’s public approval ratings, with the Democratic National Committee “literally leaving their own supporters out in the cold and giving billionaires worth more than a ton a front-row seat,” the president said. He has always shown that he “puts himself and his super-rich supporters before the American people.”
Inside Capitol One Arena, where Trump supporters gathered to watch his inauguration on Monday, the billionaire’s presence — not by the puppet masters but by many Maga loyalists — was seen as a plea.
Minnesota farmer Cheri Fiedler hopes the rise of tech billionaires means “all censorship will go away,” and predicts that diversity, equity and inclusion policies will be scrapped at the world’s biggest companies with a Trump win.
“Many of those business leaders . . . Missouri accountant Paul Kirby, who traveled to Washington for the ceremony, added on Trump. “All those leaders were basically on their knees . . .[Trump has taken control]He has regained his power.
