LVMH chief Bernard Arnault and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani—the world’s fifth- and eighteenth-wealthiest people—attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration events Monday, marking a pair of surprise billionaire appearances at the event attended by a cadre of moguls worth well over $1 trillion.
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00:00LVMH Chief Bernard Arnault and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, the world's fifth
00:07and eighteenth wealthiest people respectively, attended President Donald Trump's inauguration
00:11events Monday, marking a pair of surprise billionaire appearances at the event attended
00:16by a cadre of moguls worth well over $1 trillion.
00:22Arnault attended the inauguration alongside his wife and two children, who together make
00:27up the wealthiest family in France.
00:30Ambani also reportedly attended the event after attending the pre-inauguration church
00:35service.
00:36Ambani also attended a pre-inauguration reception Sunday night, taking a photo with his wife
00:41Nita, a Reliance Industries chairperson, and Trump.
00:46Other billionaires in attendance included the world's three wealthiest people, Tesla
00:51chief and Trump backer Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon co-founder Jeff
00:57Bezos, along with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
01:04Casino billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Miriam Adelson, as well as former Fox News
01:09chairman Rupert Murdoch, attended the inauguration.
01:14Some of the billionaires in attendance at Trump's inauguration contributed to the president's
01:18record-breaking inaugural fund, including Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Altman.
01:23The fund raised $170 million.
01:27Donors who provided $1 million to the fund, or raised $2 million from others, were reportedly
01:33given six tickets to a series of pre-inauguration events that included a black-tie ball.
01:39Some of the billionaires in attendance showed more public support for the president than
01:43others.
01:45For more on this story, check out Antonio Pequeño's article in the link in the description.