Influencers, tech bros, MMA fighters: Trump's inauguration guests

A big of little acquainted faces mingled with erstwhile presidents, household members and US officials astatine Donald Trump's inauguration.

From tech billionaires to societal media influencers, here's your usher to the impermanent list.

Trump's adjacent and arguable relationship with X proprietor Elon Musk is good known but Musk wasn't the lone tech main astatine Monday's inauguration.

Mark Zuckerberg, who earlier this period announced Meta was to get escaped of factcheckers and "dramatically trim the magnitude of censorship" connected its platforms, was besides there.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew besides made an appearance.

It comes arsenic TikTok is resuming work successful the US aft Trump said helium would contented an enforcement order to springiness the app a reprieve.

Trump antecedently backed a prohibition connected the level but connected Sunday promised to hold its implementation and let much clip for a woody to beryllium reached with the app.

Logan and Jake Paul besides shared a selfie of them travelling to the inauguration with arguable Irish MMA combatant Conor McGregor.

McGregor has said helium agreed to an accumulation boxing lucifer against Logan Paul successful India, nevertheless the bout is not confirmed.

Last twelvemonth McGregor mislaid a civilian lawsuit where helium was accused of raping Nikita Hand successful a Dublin edifice successful December 2018.

Logan Paul has besides precocious faced fresh questions implicit his cryptocurrency dealings amid ongoing concerns helium whitethorn person profited from misleading fans. Paul denied immoderate wrongdoing.

Podcaster Joe Rogan was besides seen successful the inauguration crowd.

In 2020, Rogan endorsed Democrat campaigner Bernie Sanders but soon earlier the 2024 election, helium endorsed Trump.

At times, Rogan's editorial attack has landed him successful blistery h2o - for example, during the Covid pandemic, erstwhile helium was accused of spreading vaccine misinformation.

In 2022, Rogan apologised aft footage emerged of him repeatedly utilizing the n-word successful aboriginal episodes of his show.

Rupert Murdoch, president emeritus of News Corporation, which owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the Sun and the Times, was pictured with his 5th woman Elena Zhukova.

Mr Murdoch, 93, joined the retired Russian biologist past twelvemonth successful a ceremonial astatine his Californian vineyard.

All 4 of the surviving erstwhile presidents attended, arsenic is customary.

Much has been made successful the media of Michelle Obama not accompanying her husband, Barack, who chopped a solitary fig arsenic helium walked into the Rotunda.

Obama lined up astatine the beforehand of the signifier alongside George W Bush and Bill Clinton.

World leaders and politicians made the ceremonial too. One acquainted look was erstwhile British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

When Johnson came to powerfulness successful 2019, Trump called him "a bully man", adding: "They telephone him Britain's Trump."

Javier Milei has been described by both supporters and detractors arsenic "crazy" and during his statesmanlike run successful 2023, helium brandished a chainsaw to symbolise his determination to substantially chopped nationalist spending.

He appeared to beryllium a fashionable fig astatine the inauguration, posing for selfies with respective US representatives.

Trump's household packed connected to the signifier to stitchery astir him arsenic helium was sworn in.

Lined up down Trump and his woman Melania were Barron, 18, Donald Junior, 47, Ivanka, 43 and Tiffany, 31, who was broadside connected to the camera. Eric, 41, tin beryllium seen down Ivanka.

Outgoing President Joe Biden watched Trump talk from the sidelines.

In the inheritance were Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos (mostly hidden by JD Vance), Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk.

Some notable figures decided to springiness the inauguration a miss. Barack Obama attended without his woman Michelle, who announced past week that she would not beryllium there, contempt attending Trump's archetypal swearing-in successful 2017. Her bureau did not supply an explanation.

Also missing was Karen Pence, the woman of erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence, with whom Trump had a falling retired implicit Pence's refusal to overturn the 2020 predetermination results.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a long-time Democratic person and Trump adversary, besides did not attend, having precocious undergone hep replacement surgery.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a starring fig successful the Democratic Party's progressive wing, announced she would skip the inauguration successful a widely-shared video connected Instagram connected Sunday.

Sitting closest to Trump were erstwhile President Joe Biden and entrepreneur and erstwhile Republican statesmanlike campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy.

Last year, Trump said helium would make an advisory bureau called the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), to beryllium headed by Ramaswamy and Elon Musk.

The prominence of the world's astir almighty businessmen whitethorn beryllium mounting the code for Trump's 2nd term.

Last week, Democrat Senators Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennett, shared a missive addressed to the tech executives, accusing them of trying to "cozy up" to Trump "to debar scrutiny, bounds regularisation and bargain favor".

But for now, Trump appears to beryllium enjoying being surrounded by the affluent and the powerful.

As helium wrote connected societal media past month: "Everybody wants to beryllium my friend!!!"

Graphics by the Visual Journalism squad and further reporting by Laura Blasey