Like the oil and railroad tycoons before them, America’s tech bros now have a seat at the president’s table. |

Cabinet members, governors, and long-serving public servants are positioned in rows behind the tech billionaires, with only family seated ahead of them.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Central America for his first trip as the top US diplomat. Rubio is expected to depart late next week for Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said.

The mega-rich have long had a prominent role in national politics, and several billionaires helped bankroll the campaign of Trump’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden recently gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros, a billionaire donor to liberal causes.

Seats so close to the US president are usually reserved for the president’s family, past presidents and other honoured guests.

Donald Trump's swearing-in as the 47th US President marked a shift in protocol, with tech moguls like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos occupying front-row seats typically reserved for political elites.

Donald J. Trump, the 47th president of the United States, made history by signing a record number of “America First” executive orders and promising to enact more, on the first

The wife of Mark Zuckerberg and co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative attends the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.

Rubio was widely expected to be confirmed as the U.S.'s top diplomat and was the least controversial of Trump's Cabinet picks. He is the first nominee to be confirmed by the Senate and Republicans ...

The confirmation process includes several rounds of investigation and review, beginning with the submission of a personal financial disclosure report and a background check. The nominee is then evaluated in a committee hearing, which allows for a close ...

The crowd at Donald Trump's inauguration had four of the worlds five wealthiest men, five former presidents, tech titans and business moguls, and two foreign leaders front and center with prime seats.

Some of the most exclusive seats at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday were reserved for powerful tech CEOs who also happen to be among the world’s richest men. That’s a shift from tradition,