Tech billionaires, foreign diplomats and CEOs shadowed U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, with several attending St. John's Church in Washington and seated prominently on the dais in the U.S. Capitol ahead of his speech.

LVMH chief Bernard Arnault and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani—the world’s fifth- and eighteenth-wealthiest people—attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration events Monday, marking a pair of surprise billionaire appearances at the event attended by a cadre of moguls worth well over $1 trillion.

US legislators in 2024 voted by overwhelming margins to ban the app in the United States on national security concerns, only to watch Trump put the law on hold as he invited TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew to the inauguration at the last minute.

A gathering of the world’s wealthiest individuals attended the inauguration, and in a telling gesture, the tech billionaires were seated in front of Trump’s nominated Cabinet.

Numerous tech billionaires were given premium seating spots at Donald Trump’s second inauguration on Monday, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In many cases, the tech honchos sat in front of Trump’s Cabinet nominees and Republican lawmakers,