Trending post of the day: Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai glued to their phones at Trump’s oath-taking ceremony

During Donald Trump’s oath-taking ceremony, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk were busy on their phones.

A post has been making rounds on the internet, garnering massive reactions from netizens. The post involves Donald Trump’s oath-taking ceremony, attended by several dignitaries, including Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai.

During Trump’s oath-taking ceremony, Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai were busy on their phones.

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States on Monday at the Capitol Rotunda, with several prominent figures in attendance, including tech CEOs. Among the enormous number of videos and photos widely spread across the internet, one particular image stood out—a photo of Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, both absorbed in their phones. This sparked a wave of laughter among netizens.

Pichai and Musk were seen engrossed in their phones during the inauguration.

Both tech leaders wore suits and were seen standing next to Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos and his fiancé Lauren Sánchez. They were busy with their mobile phones. Sharing a picture, an X user wrote, “These kids and their damn phones.” The post quickly gained traction and amassed over 2,86,000 interactions.

Watch the viral post here:

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Netizens react to the viral post.

One social media user wrote, “To be fair, Elon’s got a bunch of companies to run on top of all this.” Another wrote, “The kids are the future now. It’s always been said. It’s never been truer.” A third user wrote, “Yeah but they’re not on tiktok… its probably difficult leaving their trillion dollar companies alone for a couple of hours.” One more commented, “Google Pixel vs Apple iPhone right here.”