On Forbes‘s US list, he is sandwiched between Elon Musk, number one, who bought the social media network Twitter and rebranded it as X, and Mark Zuckerberg, who runs Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram. Like some of the others in the deal, he is part of the inner circle of Trump’s favorite corporate ideologues. My son.” Enter Larry’s son, David Ellison, who was born into the kind of riches most can barely dream of. As I wrote for FAIR, the younger Ellison is the CEO of Skydance, which recently merged with Paramount, giving him control over CBS. Musk has previously taken credit for helping Trump secure the White House in 2024 through his positioning of X as a supportive social network.