How many billionaires attended Trump’s dinner with Xi?

How plenty of billionaires attended Trump's dinner with Xi? Ramon Padilla, Janet Loehrke, George Petras USA TODAY.

Key points

• They included Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon; and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, to mention a few.
• Source: USA TODAY Network reporting and research; Reuters; Forbes; Bloomberg Billionaires Index; International Monetary Fund.
• Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Jane Fraser of Citigroup, and David Solomon and John F.W.
• Of the 35 business individuals, concerning 15 of them, or 43%, are connected to technology.
• Though Forbes either puts their net worth at less than $1 billion or does not publicly estimate them, 14 others are wealthy business leaders.

Almost three dozen high-profile and extremely wealthy technology, finance and other business executives attended President Donald Trump's state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House on Sept. 24.

How wealthy? Forbes estimates the combined net worth of the technology moguls at more than $2.4 trillion. That's almost the gross domestic product of Canada in 2026. How plenty of? Our review of the White House guest list demonstrates. 134 state dinner guests. 35 business figures among them, or 26% of all guests. 21 are billionaires, according to Forbes.

Trump and Xi were projected to discuss tariffs, trade, Taiwan and AI during Xi's three-day visit. But it was the billionaires at nearby dinner tables who drew public attention.

USA TODAY analyzed and compared the documented net worth of Trump's dinner companions. Here is what we discovered.

More: China state dinner with Xi: Elon Musk, a bald eagle and Trump 'off script'.

In practice, the state dinner guest list echoes Trump's inaugural dinner in 2025, where some of the billionaires were seated closer to the incoming president than his incoming cabinet, USA TODAY documented. And while these are some of the richest individuals in the world, the corporations they represent are worth far more.

Of the 35 business individuals, concerning 15 of them, or 43%, are connected to technology. The other 20 are spread throughout other industries, including 11 in finance, three in aerospace and defense, and others in automotive, energy, pharmaceuticals and media.

For context, a breakdown of the technology leaders by their firms' primary industry sector.

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Jane Fraser of Citigroup, and David Solomon and John F.W. Rogers of Goldman Sachs are among those in finance. Kelly Ortberg of Boeing, Jim Taiclet of Lockheed Martin and Larry Culp of GE Aerospace are in aerospace and defense. Albert Bourla of Pfizer is in pharmaceuticals.

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