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(NewsNation) — The strategical seating of respective prominent tech leaders who were perched down President Donald Trump during his inauguration could foreshadow their imaginable manus successful his administration, immoderate governmental analysts say.
The heads of the largest companies were spotted astatine his inauguration Monday.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos, Apple caput Tim Cook and Google main Sundar Pichai each attended the inauguration work astatine St. John's Church successful Washington and were aboriginal seen seated unneurotic successful the 2nd enactment down Trump’s family.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was besides successful attendance, with the inauguration occurring 1 time aft the video-sharing level went acheronian successful the U.S., though helium was not seated with the different tech leaders astatine the Capitol rotunda.
“They [tech leaders] got immoderate of the astir salient positions there, and it seems similar Donald Trump was trying to nonstop a connection of immoderate kind,” NewsNation Chief Washington Correspondent and big of "The Hill" Blake Burman said.
Niall Stanage, White House columnist for The Hill, besides noticed the precedence seating.
“I deliberation visually, 1 of the astir striking things was the prominence of truthful galore tech executives, overmuch much salient than astir members of Congress oregon adjacent the projected members of President Trump's Cabinet,” helium said.
Trump Cabinet nominees each sat down the tech titans during the president's inaugural lunch.
Musk is not a astonishing impermanent arsenic helium volition co-lead the caller Department of Government Efficiency, oregon DOGE.
The billionaire owns Tesla, SpaceX and the societal media level X and has go Trump's adjacent person successful caller years.
The executives oregon their companies had each donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration fund, which apt garnered the premier locations.
"Things successful Washington are changing. This is simply a antithetic municipality erstwhile Donald Trump walked successful here," NewsNation's Leland Vittert said, referring successful portion to the seating chart.
A fig of Republican governors, including Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida and galore spouses of members of Congress, were relegated to an overflow country successful Emancipation Hall owed to the constricted abstraction successful the Capitol rotunda, reported The Hill.
Democrats denounced the seating decision.
“Big Tech billionaires person a beforehand enactment spot astatine Trump’s inauguration. They person adjacent amended seats than Trump’s ain Cabinet picks. That says it all,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, wrote connected the societal level X.
“All you request to know. The billionaires are successful charge. Not you,” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut wrote connected X.
Some Republicans privately were miffed, the outlet reported.
“I didn’t similar that,” 1 GOP lawmaker told The Hill.
“Why is Zuckerberg each of a abrupt successful our fold? My interest is, if we hadn’t won, wherever would helium be? Would helium beryllium connected the different team?” a 2nd GOP lawmaker said. “At slightest Elon was successful the fight.”
