Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos go to Trump’s inauguration

It shouldn’t be surprising at this point, though NBC News does to report Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos will attend the inauguration of the newly elected President Donald Trump on January 20.

What do all these tech leaders have in common? All have publicly expressed varying degrees of support for the incoming Trump administration, and all three have donated to his campaign or inauguration. It represents a major turnaround from Trump’s early days in office, when the tech industry distanced itself from him and eventually cut him out entirely after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

Zuckerberg, in particular, has had a rather rocky relationship with Trump, who threatened to imprison him for his stance on conservative content regulation, but as Zuckerberg promised, he’s feeling better now. loosen content restrictions At Meta Platforms, it got rid of the company’s DEI programs and appointed an outspoken Republican to lead its policy arm. Bezos, as the owner The Washington Postregularly took barbs from Trump in his first outing and saw the possibility of raising USPS prices charged to Amazon in response to his newspaper’s coverage.

Meta and Amazon both donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, and Elon Musk, of course, spent aggressively on Trump’s re-election campaign. It will help cut government costs through the DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency, and is trying to hire more numbers, from technology to workers.

according to NBCthree tech leaders will sit “on a platform next to cabinet officials and elected leaders.”

Perhaps the most striking thing about Silicon Valley’s tilt toward Trump is how open it all is. While in the past it might have taken an investigative journalist a bit of digging to find payment schemes for a game, here none of the tech leaders are hiding what they’re up to. They’re pulling out all the stops to get on Trump’s good side, ward off any attacks he might bring, and possibly get preferential treatment for lucrative defense contracts. Although this technology tends to workers more liberal than their employers. But these leaders need to understand that the pros of supporting Trump outweigh the cons. Especially now that the tech industry has experienced massive layoffs in recent years, rank-and-file engineers don’t have the power they once had.