The billionaires were joined by other prominent members of the tech community seated on the dais at the U.S. Capitol ceremony

Ideas about softness and weakness, hardship and strength, have been central to reactionary politics since the beginning of human history.

Billionaires to have arrived at the Capitol Rotunda Monday morning include Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, billionaire Trump supporter Miriam Adelson, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and others.

China has confirmed that Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng met the US vice-president-elect J.D. Vance in Washington on Sunday. Han also met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now a close aide to US president-elect Donald Trump,

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is being chastised by MAGA faithfuls after saying some January 6ers shouldn’t be pardoned.

Crowd cheers president-elect at Capital One Arena as he delivers campaign-style speech with his family, Elon Musk and JD Vance in attendance, and performances from Kid Rock and The Village People

Three separate lawsuits allege that DOGE violates the transparency rules of a 1972 law.

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday at the US Capitol. Follow for live news updates on all of the events.

Speaking at an inauguration eve rally in Washington, Trump claimed that the forthcoming pardons would make his supporters “very happy,” once again referring to the convictees—who tore through the U.S. Capitol complex in a deadly riot, halting Congress’s certification of votes in delirious support of his failed presidential bid—as “hostages.”

Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States at noon. We'll be posting live updates.

Donald Trump’s increasingly close relationship with tech leaders has been noted for weeks now. They’ve donated millions to his inauguration fund, taken trips to the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort and, in the case of Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, altered Facebook’s moderation policies to accommodate conservative concerns.