Several speculations are on the regarding the fact that if Tesla CEO Elon Musk is going to have the last laugh or not as the former chief strategist to US President Donald Trump namely Steve Bannon remained absent in the inauguration.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has dubbed Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg a “criminal” and said he would be likely to betray the MAGA movement despite his recent efforts to woo the president-elect.

Tech bros have cosied up to Donald Trump in hopes the Republican President will not introduce regulations of the industry and protect them against governments around the world that do

Bannon and another Trump ally, now-incoming deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, worked on Trump’s first inaugural address. It’s been dubbed the ‘American Carnage’ speech, and painted a populist, dark picture of the country he was then inheriting.

Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon said tech billionaires attendance at Trump's inauguration is a sign of their "official surrender" to Trump.

They're not there because they support Trump. They're there because the Trump movement and President Trump broke them’ Bannon said ahead of Trump’s inauguration

Bannon called Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos ‘supplicants,’ not ‘oligarchs,’ seeking to curry favor with Trump ahead of his inauguration.

Steve Bannon has intensified the MAGA civil war by comparing the sudden support for Donald Trump from tech titans Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos

US President Donald Trump's inauguration saw attendance by top tech and business leaders like Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai

The crowd President Trump is riding into Washington with looks a little different than last time. Gone are the horned helms, body paint, and zip ties, in many cases replaced by a tailored suit and an astronomical net worth. The oligarchy is moving into the people’s house.