Donald Trump has returned for his second term as US president.
He invited some of the world’s most powerful billionaire oligarchs to his inauguration in Washington.
Sitting next to Trump’s cabinet nominees, at the center of his inauguration, were the three richest people on Earth: Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla; Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon; and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, which is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.
Together, these three men have nearly $900 billion in wealth.
They could be seen on video chatting alongside Sundar Pichai, who is the billionaire CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet.
Billionaire Apple CEO Tim Cook also attended Trump’s inauguration.
These Big Tech oligarchs donated millions of dollars to Trump’s inauguration fund.
The image was deeply symbolic, because Donald Trump has selected a slew of billionaires and multi-millionaires to fill his new administration.
At least 13 billionaires will have an important role in Trump’s second administration, and Trump himself is a billionaire.
This makes Trump’s team the richest administration in the history of the US government.
As Treasury secretary, Trump chose billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent; as education secretary, billionaire Linda McMahon; as commerce secretary, billionaire Howard Lutnick; as “White House AI & Crypto Czar”, Silicon Valley oligarch David Sacks; the list goes on.
Trump told wealthy donors during his campaign that he would continue reducing taxes on the rich and on corporations.
During his first term, thanks to Trump’s tax cuts on the rich, the 400 richest billionaire families in the US paid a lower average tax rate than the bottom half of households, of working-class Americans.
JonnyJames
2025-01-21 at 11:43
As disgusting and pathetic as this all is, the DT regime is more obvious and a more honest representation of the US ruling class and US govt. It is ruled by the oligarchy and the “elected” officials are merely bought-and-paid-for puppets. When you have the world’s most richest and most powerful oligarch (reportedly worth over half a TRILLION $$) in the WH with so much power, it should be more than obvious.
As Jimmy Carter said after the Citizen United decision by SCOTUS: “The US is an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery” Elections Inc. are merely PR stunts to “legitimize” tyranny.
The DT, like the previous geriatric freak, is serially mendacious, corrupt, elitist and genocidal. The only difference is that DT is louder, and an even better example of the Ugly American (which was inherited from our cousins cross the pond): loud, obnoxious, ignorant, ethnocentric, bigoted, elitist, a fkn liar and all around asshole.
The DT is an almost perfect example of a freakish puppet emperor in the slowly decaying Empire, and a perfect example of the Ugly American.
See, I’m not always pessimistic.
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-01-21 at 12:47
USA: Not even pretending to be a democracy anymore by using puppets as window dressing.
Now a blatant, naked Plutocracy: government of the rich, by he rich and for the rich.
The emperor has no clothes.
The time has come: let ten thousand Mangiones flourish.
Energieerhaltungssatz
2025-01-21 at 17:29
“The New Middle Ages” – This fits so well.
stephen l kelley
2025-01-21 at 19:27
this picture encapsulates what trump is all about- money! so many of us tend to overanalyze this character but it all comes down to one very simple truth. this man has ruled for the rich and will of course continue to do so. and the sad thing is that many of his supporters don’t have two nickels to rub together. they have been suckered!