President Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities were still underway as prominent leaders of the Democratic Party accused him of selling out the country to a cadre of tech billionaires who received premium seating at the swearing-in ceremony.
At the swearing-in ceremony inside the Capitol rotunda, Trump gave better seats to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai than he did to the people the president had nominated to fill his Cabinet.
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