Donald Trump’s inauguration featured some of the wealthiest people in the world and it’s hard to stomach the sheer net worth of these individuals.
Trump – who is worth $6.3 billion according to Forbes – swore into office for the second time to become America’s 47th president yesterday (20 January).
And some of the most recognisable faces in the world were in attendance, from billionaire tech entrepreneurs to wealthy politicians.
In this one photo alone, it’s difficult to believe how much these five individuals are worth:
Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk attend Trump’s Inauguration (SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
As you can see, the individuals in this picture are Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, journalist Lauren Sanchez, married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (also in the picture), Google CEO Sundar Pichai and SpaceX boss Elon Musk.
According to Forbes, Musk, 53, is the wealthiest individual in the world with a net worth of $428.8 billion.
Musk cofounded seven companies, including PayPal and Tesla, before purchasing X (Twitter) for $44 billion in 2022.
Also in the photo are number two and three in the rich list: Bezos, 61, and Zuckerberg, 40, respectively.
Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 after selling books out of his garage in Seattle.
In 2021, he stepped down as the CEO to become the executive chairman.
And at the time of writing, he has a net worth of $244.4 billion.
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While the Meta boss is worth $213.4 billion after starting Facebook in 2004.
In 2012, he took Facebook public and now has a 13 percent stake in the company.
Meanwhile, Pichai, 52, who is stood between Musk and Bezos, is worth considerably less, with a net worth of $1.3 billion, as reported by The Street.
He became the CEO in 2019, after Google co-founders and co-CEOs Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped back from the day-to-day operations.
Meanwhile, news anchor Sanchez, 55, who is engaged to Bezos, is worth $30 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. The entertainment reporter also happens to be a licensed pilot and founder of Black Ops Aviation.
What is the combined net worth of the people in this photo?
Some of the wealthiest people in the world were present at Donald Trump’s inauguration (Julia Demaree Nikhinson – Pool/Getty Images)
Add all that together, and the combined net worth of the five people in this photo is $887.9 billion.
In total, there was $1 trillion’s worth of people in the rotunda of the Capitol on Monday.
Even though they weren’t in the photo, the fourth and fifth richest people in the world were also in attendance.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison ($213.2 billion) was there and so was Bernard Arnault ($184.2 billion), the LVMH owner who owns brands like Dior, Louis Vuitton, Moet & Chandon and Sephora.
Commenting on the picture over on X, one person said: “Together they could wipe out the national debt.”
“Too many billionaires in one picture,” another penned.
“Nah I can feel my brokeness just by looking at this pic,” someone else said.
Everything Trump has pledged to do as 47th US president
Immigration
Trump promised during a rally at Madison Square Garden: “On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.
“I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible.”
‘Make Greenland Great Again Act’
In a move that naturally has not gone down well with Greenlanders, Trump has said: “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.
“Greenland is an incredible place. The people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump plans to enter into negotiations with the King of Denmark to purchase Greenland.
January 6 pardons
A whopping 1,500 people who took part in the January 6 insurrection in 2021 have already been pardoned by Trump.
In an interview with TIME before being sworn in, Trump said: “I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”
Getting rid of birthright citizenship
Trump has already signed an executive order trying to end birthright citizenship, despite legal challenges.
This would be undoing a significant part of the US constitution, with the 14th amendment reading: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Trump wants to make it so that children who do not have at least one parent who is a lawful permanent resident of the US do not have automatic citizenship.
Cut federal funding for schools educating on ‘inappropriate’ topics
Speaking early last year, Trump promised to ‘cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity’.
He also promised to crack down on ‘any other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children’.
Delaying the TikTok ban
After going dark over the weekend, TikTok was back hours with a message reading: “Welcome back! Thank you for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the US!”
That’s because Trump has promised to delay the ban and give TikTok more time to find an American buyer.
Making hidden government files public
Trump promised at his recent rally in Washington D.C that, in a bid to increase government transparency, he will be making these disclosures in ‘the coming days’.
He said: “We are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
Making the US the ‘crypto capital’
Back in 2021, Trump called crypto a ‘scam against the dollar.’ Well, more recently he vowed to make America ‘the crypto capital of the planet’ at a Nashville cryptocurrency conference last year.
Both Trump and his wife Melania launched their own cryptocurrency memecoins ahead of the inauguration, much to the discontent of some experts.
“This may represent the single worst conflict of interest in the modern history of the presidency,” Norman Eisen, a former ethics adviser under Obama, told the Washington Post.
End Green Deals
Trump is not a fan of the Green New Deal. It was pitched by Democrats Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey in 2019, but is a non-binding resolutions so will never be signed into law.
The new president has dubbed it ‘the greatest scam in history, probably’ and vowed to ‘terminate’ it.
Electric vehicles
In 2021, Joe Biden signed an executive order with the target of making 50 percent of all vehicles on US roads electric. It wasn’t legally binding.
Trump has already repealed this, telling his supporters on Monday (21 January): “The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity.”
Arrange green cards for college graduates
In a surprising bid to relax immigration rules, Trump wants non-US citizens to be able to stay in the US after graduating college.
During an episode of the ‘All In’ podcast recorded this year, Trump said: “Somebody graduates at the top of the class, they can’t even make a deal with the company because they don’t think they’re going to be able to stay in the country. That is going to end on Day 1.”
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