Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Foundation Founder Nita Ambani are among the influential billionaires and foreign leaders to attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump.
United States President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office for a second term on Monday (January 20) as the 47th US president.
Earlier in the day, Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani US President-elect Donald Trump met Donald Trump and congratulated him for his election victory a day ahead of the inauguration ceremony.
PHOTO | Washington, DC: US President-elect Donald Trump met Nita Ambani and Mukesh Ambani before his swearing-in ceremony.
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The Ambanis arrived in Washington DC on Saturday to attend several events to herald his second inauguration as president. The two were also part of a select 100 who attended an intimate ‘candlelit dinner’ with Trump on Saturday evening, news agency PTI said quoting sources aware of the matter.
The two were the only Indians to attend the dinner where Vice President-elect JD and Usha Vance also met them.
#WATCH | US: At the Private Reception in Washington, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani & Founder & Chairperson of Reliance Foundation, Nita Ambani congratulated President-elect Donald Trump ahead of his swearing-in ceremony
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The Ambanis will attend the January 20 inauguration as the personal invitee of the Trump family. The couple will have a prominent spot at the ceremony, seated together on the platform with other prominent guests, including Trump’s Cabinet nominees and elected officials.
The Ambanis are considered to have close ties with the Trump family and Mukesh Ambani was also present when Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, visited Hyderabad for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in 2017. Ivanka was an advisor to President Trump then.
He was also present when Trump visited India last as US President in February 2020. Ivanka, her husband Jared Kushner and their eldest daughter Arabella Rose were among the celebrities that attended the star-studded three-day pre-wedding celebrations of Ambani’s youngest son Anant and fiancee Radhika Merchant in Jamnagar, Gujarat in March 2024.
Trump’s second inauguration is likely to be a star-studded event. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, along with their respective spouses First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, as also former Presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush, and Bill Clinton are expected to attend.
The world’s three richest people – tech entrepreneur and Trump’s most vocal supporter Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple chief executive Tim Cook, and chief executive of Facebook’s parent firm Mark Zuckerberg – will have a prominent spot at the ceremony.
Other Big Tech executives who will reportedly be in attendance are OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
