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Salon
Salon
Politics
Cara Michelle Smith

Trump's Big Tech turnaround

Scattered among President Donald J. Trump's family members, his vice president, his Cabinet appointments and a handful of his billionaire donors on Monday were a few key faces that sent a clear signal: Big Tech is in the president’s inner circle.

Behind Ivanka and Donald Jr., a pouf of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s strawberry-blonde curls could be seen. Second Lady Usha Vance and Barron Trump provided a similar framing for Elon Musk, the Tesla, X and SpaceX multibillionaire who spent a quarter-billion dollars on Trump’s reelection. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who donated $1 million to the inauguration, sat in front of billionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, the former GOP presidential primary candidate and co-chair of DOGE who is leaving that position to run for Ohio governor.

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