Trump had promised a blitz of immediate orders on immigration and the US culture wars as he caps his extraordinary comeback.
79-Year-Old Republican Trump was a political outsider at his first inauguration in 2017, but as he takes the oath as the 47th US president he is surrounded by America’s wealthy and powerful.
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The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai all had prime seats in the Capitol alongside Trump’s cabinet members.
Musk, who bankrolled Trump’s election campaign to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars and promotes far-right policies on the X social network, will lead a cost-cutting drive in the new administration.
While Trump refused to attend Biden’s 2021 inauguration after falsely claiming electoral fraud by the Democrat, this time Biden has been keen to restore a sense of tradition.
Biden was joining former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the Capitol. Former First Ladies Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush were there but Former First lady Michelle Obama was not in attendance.