{"id":11297,"date":"2025-10-13T00:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=11297"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:35:30","slug":"five-billionaires-who-attended-donald-trumps-inauguration-have-collectively-lost-209000000000-in-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=11297","title":{"rendered":"Five billionaires who attended Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration have collectively lost $209,000,000,000 in wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Donald Trump\u2019s second inauguration, five of the world\u2019s wealthiest men\u2014Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bernard Arnault, and Sergey Brin\u2014stood together in support. But seven weeks later, they collectively lost an astonishing <strong>$209 billion<\/strong>, according to Bloomberg. The S&amp;P 500 fell nearly 7% after Trump took office, reversing the pre-inauguration market highs that had briefly boosted their fortunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk\u2019s Tesla stock had soared 98% before the inauguration, but after political backlash and declining sales in Germany, he lost about <strong>$145 billion<\/strong>, erasing what was once the largest fortune ever recorded. Bezos\u2019 Amazon, which had donated $1 million to the inauguration, saw a 15% drop in sales, costing him <strong>$31 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google co-founder Sergey Brin lost <strong>$23 billion<\/strong> when Alphabet\u2019s shares fell 7% after missing revenue targets, while Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta stock dipped 21%, cutting his wealth by <strong>$8 billion<\/strong>. French luxury magnate Bernard Arnault fared slightly better but still lost <strong>$5 billion<\/strong> as tariffs on European goods hit his LVMH empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, the five moguls\u2019 companies shed <strong>$1.43 trillion<\/strong> in market value. What began as a show of political unity at the inauguration ended as a harsh lesson in volatility\u2014proof that even billionaires aren\u2019t immune to the unpredictable ripple effects of politics and the markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Donald Trump\u2019s second inauguration, five of the world\u2019s wealthiest men\u2014Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bernard Arnault, and Sergey Brin\u2014stood together in support. But seven weeks&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":303,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11299,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297\/revisions\/11299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}