On Wednesday morning, it was already a foregone conclusion that Donald Trump would become the next one president of the USA. On the same day, the value of the fortunes of the ten richest people in the world increased by a record amount of PLN 64 billion dollars – reports CNN.
Billionaires became rich after Trump's victory
Of course, he gained the most Elon Muskwho occupies the first place of the world's richest people on the Bloomberg's Billionaire Index list (list updated based on shares in companies listed on stock exchanges securities). In one day, the CEO of Tesla became richer by USD 26.5 billion, and his fortune reached USD 290 billion. He is the only rich man on the list whose assets increased by double-digit billions. The second largest increase was recorded by Larry Ellison (president of Oracle Corporation), who gained $9.88 billion – he now has $193 billion.
Jeff Bezos became richer by $7.14 billion (up to $228 billion), Bill Gates by $1.82 billion (up to $159 billion), Larry Page by $5.53 billion (up to $158 billion), Sergey Brin by $5.17 billion (up to PLN 149 billion), Warren Buffett by PLN 7.58 billion (up to PLN 148 billion), and Steve Ballmer, closing the TOP10, by USD 2.81 billion (up to PLN 148 billion).
Only two billionaires in the top ten suffered losses. Mark Zuckerberg is $80.9 million in the red. However, with a fortune of USD 202 billion, he retained third place in the ranking. Bernard Arnault lost $2.85 billion and ranks fifth on the rich list with $173 billion.
Which billionaires supported Donald Trump and which supported Kamala Harris?
On the list of the 10 richest, Trump's biggest supporter is, of course, Elon Musk, who openly supported him on social media and showed up at rallies. No other billionaire expressed his support so obviously, they did it rather quietly. For example, Jeff Bezos, who in his Washington Post, stopped the newspaper's long-standing tradition of expressing support for one of the candidates. “WP” was supposed to support Kamala Harris.
Former Microsoft executives Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, former Google executives Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett did not endorse any candidate this year. However, in the past they supported Democratic candidates and demands.
At the end of October, the Financial Times reported that billionaires spent a total of $695 million on the US presidential campaign, which is approximately 18%. all donations. Trump received a total of $568 million from billionaires, and Kamala Harris received $127 million. In total, out of 800 billionaires, 144 of them financially supported the presidential campaign.