Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg to Attend Trump's Inauguration

Published: 1/15/2025, 12:13:19 PM EST

Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg to Attend Trump's Inauguration — Jeff Bezos (L) attends the Amazon Prime Video's Golden Globe Awards After Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 6, 2019. Mark Zuckerberg (M) testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, on Jan. 31, 2024. Elon Musk (R) listens as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addresses a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Nov. 13, 2024. (Emma McIntyre, Alex Wong, Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will join Elon Musk in attending President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, giving the nation a rare sighting of three of the world's richest men together.

The trio of high-profile tech titans will be seated on the dais for the Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony, along with other prominent guests.

A source familiar with the planning of the event confirmed the seating arrangement to The Epoch Times in an email.

Musk appeared to confirm the reports on his X social media platform, stating simply that he was "honored" by the seating arrangement in response to a post by Charlie Kirk, the president of Turning Point USA (TPUSA).

Bezos's Amazon and Zuckerberg's Meta are among the companies that have donated to Trump's inauguration, with each giving $1 million. Musk, the head of Tesla, SpaceX, and X, spent more than $250 million to help elect Trump in November.

Elon Musk

Musk has quickly become a close ally of the incoming president. He campaigned for Trump in the 2024 presidential election and provided huge amounts of funding to help elect Trump and other Republican candidates.

Trump chose Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to serve as co-chiefs of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will target wasteful government spending. Musk will act as an external adviser to the new department, which will have the goal of cutting two trillion dollars in spending from the $6.8 trillion federal budget.

Forbes rank Musk as the world's richest person for 2025.

Jeff Bezos

Bezos owns Blue Origin, an aerospace industry rival to Musk's SpaceX.

But he is best known as the founder of retail giant Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce company.

Last month, Bezos said that he was looking forward to Trump's second term and possible regulatory cutbacks.

“I’m actually very optimistic this time around,” Bezos said during a Dec. 4 interview. “He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. If I can help do that, I’m going to help him. We do have too many regulations in this country."

He also said he would try to talk Trump out of the idea that the press is "the enemy."

Bezos also owns The Washington Post and made headlines when he prohibited the media outlet from endorsing a presidential candidate because he believed it would create a perception of bias.

Mark Zuckerberg

Meta banned Trump's account from Facebook following the Jan. 6, 2021 demonstrations at the nation's Capitol.

Since Trump's 2024 presidential victory, however, Zuckerberg has met twice with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump recently said at a press conference in Mar-a-Lago that Meta has "come a long way" after it ended its third-party fact-checking programs on Instagram and Facebook. The president-elect said the new approach was "probably" due to threats he had made to Zuckerberg in the past.

Reuters contributed to this report.