Billionaires congratulate Trump and themselves on their election victory

In the 2024 elections, Republicans won major victories in all votes, as did a key group of supporters: billionaire oligarchs who poured their immense wealth and resources into a red wave.

Of course, no one was more pleased than Elon Musk, a top deputy to President-elect Donald Trump and a major donor to the MAGA cause. Confident, he took to , set and win.” He later repeated a gag from his first day as Twitter owner, sharing a meme with the caption “Let that sink in,” which shows him holding a sink in the Oval Office. In the early hours of Wednesday morning he declared: “The people of America have given [Trump] a crystal clear mandate for change tonight.”

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who is among the super-rich to publicly embrace Trumpism, along with Musk and other Silicon Valley executives and venture capitalists, reposted almost everything Musk said, including a photo by Musk at Trump’s rally in late October at Madison Square Garden with the headline “The most consequential person of all time.” Ackman also quipped, “At least Peanut didn’t die in vain,” referring to the recent euthanasia of an OnlyFans model’s internet-famous squirrel by New York authorities – an incident that right-wing extremists saw as an example of government overreach in the United States Weekend before the election. On Wednesday, Ackman criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for withholding a concession to Trump, at one point calling her “pathetic.” (Harris eventually called the president-elect.)

Other wealthy Trump supporters taking a victory lap included venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, who posted that it was “morning again in America,” and Musk ally David Sacks, who declared on X Tuesday night that “Nixon ’68 was the greatest “Comeback – until tonight.” Sequoia Capital’s Shaun Maguire, one of the tech world’s early Trump supporters, foresaw a “renaissance” and wrote that it was “time to rebuild.” On Wednesday, he added: “Woke is dead.” Over in the crypto space, where major investors were betting on a Trump administration that would take a lax approach to regulating decentralized currencies, the mood was similarly optimistic. Bitcoin billionaire Cameron Winklevoss congratulated the “tenacious” Trump and marveled: “Imagine how much we will achieve in the next four years if the crypto industry doesn’t waste billions of dollars on legal fees fighting the SEC and instead wastes this money “will invest in building the future of money.” His twin brother Tyler Winklevoss reshared both comments, noting on Wednesday: “Crypto has become a bipartisan issue overnight.” Well done, crypto army.”

Several billionaire tech CEOs who didn’t explicitly join the Trump campaign nevertheless expressed their kindness on the occasion of his historic election victory. Among them was Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, also the owner of the Washington Post and widely criticized for scuttling the newspaper’s support for Harris. (The paper didn’t publish an endorsement, which angered staff and led a quarter of a million readers to cancel their subscriptions.) “Congratulations to our 45th and now 47th president on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory,” Bezos posted on X , which he had not used since writing in July, that Trump had “shown tremendous grace and courage” when he was shot at by a suspected assassin at a rally in Pennsylvania. “No nation has greater opportunities. Wish [Trump] “Good luck leading and uniting the America we all love.” The postBezos’ staff union has not yet addressed Bezos’ remark and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg both expressed their own good wishes after an election season in which they remained virtually neutral. On he wrote. “I look forward to working with you and your administration.” Both men had expressed positive feelings after Trump survived the July assassination attempt and have gone to great lengths to lobby Washington on behalf of their companies. In a book published by Trump in September, the Republican candidate threatened to send Zuckerberg to prison for life and blamed him in part for the alleged rigging of the 2020 election (which was not stolen). But the relationship between Trump and Zuckerberg has warmed since then, with Trump saying in October that he likes the Facebook founder “a lot more” than he once did because he had stayed out of the 2024 race.

Finally, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, praised Trump for his “decisive victory on Benefits for All,” he wrote. Pichai reportedly had a friendly conversation with Trump in the final days of the campaign.

While Democrats tried to shift blame for the losses suffered by Harris and other candidates and liberal measures in votes across the country, at least one person argued that a powerful class of elites was most responsible, Trump and his ilk to bring into office. That would be Vivian Wilson, daughter of Musk, who legally changed her name and gender in 2022 with the aim of severing all ties with her father. The alienation, Musk said, led to his political shift to the right on transgender identity and other culture war issues and inspired his fight against what he calls the “woke mind virus.”

“‘Blame this population, blame this population,'” Wilson wrote in her Threads account. “NO. Blame the damn politicians and oligarchs who caused this. Direct your anger at them.”