In the year since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States, several prominent American billionaires have added billions to their personal fortunes.
A new Financial Times report found that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — the billionaire CEOs of Tesla, Amazon and Meta, respectively — each saw major jumps in wealth after attending Trump’s inauguration in January 2025. Together, the three reportedly gained about $250 billion.
The outlet also noted that leaders tied to Apple, Google, OpenAI and TikTok recorded significant gains in stock performance or company valuation during the first year of Trump’s second administration — a period the report described as reflecting an “increasingly transactional nature of Washington,” with policy and access often intersecting with the interests of major players in American tech.
Musk’s wealth grew the most, according to the report. Over the past year, he has alternated between acting as a close adviser to Trump and clashing with him, though their summer rift appears to have eased in recent months. The Tesla CEO, who reportedly visited Trump’s Palm Beach residence, Mar-a-Lago, more than a dozen times this year, added an estimated $234 billion under the new administration, per FT.
Bezos, meanwhile, gained roughly $15 billion since last January, the report said, while also strengthening his relationship with Trump through at least two trips to Mar-a-Lago and “several phone calls” with the president over the last year. FT reported that Amazon has contributed billions in U.S. investment and donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund, along with an undisclosed amount toward construction of a White House ballroom.
Zuckerberg reportedly gained $1.9 billion since Trump’s inauguration and made at least two trips to Mar-a-Lago. Like Amazon, Meta pledged up to $600 billion in U.S. investment.
The Financial Times also reported that Amazon and Meta each contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund, as did Apple CEO Tim Cook, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The latter three executives reportedly made at least six Mar-a-Lago visits combined.
After Apple invested $600 billion in the U.S. and contributed toward the ballroom project, Apple shares rose nearly 15% since January 2025, according to the report. Google pledged $22 million to the ballroom effort, and its shares climbed 66% over the past year. OpenAI, part of a consortium that pledged $500 billion to strengthen U.S. AI infrastructure, saw even sharper growth in valuation — rising from $157 billion in late 2024 to an estimated $500 billion.
In contrast, the report said TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew did not publicly support Trump either personally or financially. However, FT reported that a prominent investor in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, pledged millions to Trump’s Maga Inc. Even so, the privately owned platform’s valuation reportedly grew to an estimated $500 billion.
Many of these executives also attended a White House dinner in September 2025 that appeared focused on supporting American tech. Trump was joined by Zuckerberg, Cook and Altman, as well as Google founder Sergey Brin and Microsoft founder Bill Gates — a group Trump described as a “high IQ group.”
