Business is large connected galore fronts for President Donald Trump arsenic he was sworn successful for his 2nd word coming successful Washington, D.C. (His meme coin $TRUMP hit astir $11 billion successful marketplace worth since its motorboat connected Friday.)
Trump took his oath of agency wrong the U.S. Capitol Rotunda alternatively than extracurricular the West Front of the Capitol owed to the frigid upwind (it's presently 27 degrees Fahrenheit successful the nation's capital). Ronald Reagan made the aforesaid determination successful 1985.
An wrong root told NPR the Capitol Rotunda tin only fresh astir 750 people, making who was coming moreover much meaningful. According to the Joint Congressional Committee connected Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC), the inaugural level is typically reserved for the existent president and vice president and their families; the president-elect and vice president-elect and their families; members of the Supreme Court and different high-ranking officials.
Despite the quadrate footage challenges, a cavalcade of business leaders, for illustration Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, were successful attendance astatine the swearing-in ceremony, reports Fox Business.
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Some noted tech titans connected the exclusive impermanent database see Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew besides attended.
In a file for Time, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian write, "These business leaders are rushing to meet Trump now, arsenic they would immoderate President and Americans of each governmental inclinations should cheer them on, because their engagement is vitally needed for the use of our federation and for our economy, some successful position of making the astir of imaginable opportunities arsenic good arsenic avoiding imaginable pitfalls."