Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos will attend Trump’s inauguration

Tesla and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon the founder Jeff Bezos the president-elect will attend Donald Trumpopening of This was reported by NBC News on tuesday. They will join them apple CEO Tim Cook, Bloomberg reported on this on Wednesday.

They will sit on the platform next to cabinet officials and elected leaders, according to a person familiar with the inauguration plan who spoke to NBC News.

The prominent presence of several tech luminaries and billionaires at Trump’s inauguration shows how quickly tech industry leadership has warmed to Trump as he seeks a second term as president.

During Trump’s first term, Bezos regularly clashed with the president over his ownership of The Washington Post, Amazon’s ties to the US Postal Service and how much the tech company pays in taxes. Zuckerberg traded barbs with Trump, particularly on immigration and disinformation.

But after Trump’s second term in office, the tech industry did contributed to the opening fund and several CEOs praised Trump and expressed good wishes for his administration.

Musk has joined the Trump administration to oversee an upcoming advisory council called the Department of Government Efficiency, which seeks to find and reduce government waste. She also spent time with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

There is Amazon and Meta each contributed $1 million To Trump’s inaugural fund. Google It also contributed $1 million, CNBC reported last week. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman contributed $1 million and did just that apple CEO Tim Cookaccording to Axios report the tech company had no comment.

Representatives for Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos did not immediately comment to NBC News. An Apple representative declined to comment.