America’s tech oligarchy is making nice with the 47th president, but what about the Facebook founder’s pediatrician-turned-philanthropist wife?

Like the oil and railroad tycoons before them, America’s tech bros now have a seat at the president’s table. |

Cabinet members, governors, and long-serving public servants are positioned in rows behind the tech billionaires, with only family seated ahead of them.

The mega-rich have long had a prominent role in national politics, and several billionaires helped bankroll the campaign of Trump’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden recently gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros, a billionaire donor to liberal causes.

Some of the most exclusive seats at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday were reserved for powerful tech CEOs who also happen to be among the world’s richest men.

Seats so close to the US president are usually reserved for the president’s family, past presidents and other honoured guests.

Donald Trump's swearing-in as the 47th US President marked a shift in protocol, with tech moguls like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos occupying front-row seats typically reserved for political elites.

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