President Donald Trump is being accompanied on his key trip to China by an entourage of the super-rich, boasting a combined net worth in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The list of tech and financial industry titans includes Elon Musk, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Musk posted from Air Force One on Wednesday that he was on his way to Beijing, and was pictured greeting dignitaries on the red carpet when the plane landed. Trump earlier confirmed a number of high-profile attendees in a lengthy post on Truth Social, referring to Cook as “Tim Apple”.
According to Forbes, the group has a combined net worth of $870 billion, excluding Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who was originally not thought to be attending. Including Huang’s net worth, which the magazine estimates to be $190.6 billion, the combined number soars to over $1.06 trillion.
Musk alone has an estimated net worth of around $819 billion, according to Forbes. Cook, who recently announced that he planned to step down as the CEO of Apple, has a net worth of $2.9 billion.
Executives from Boeing, Cargill, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Meta and Visa are also joining the trip. Outside the world of tech and finance, Hollywood director Brett Ratner was also spotted on board Air Force One, reportedly scouting locations for the fourth film in the Rush Hour series.
