Bernard Arnault said a wind of optimism is blowing through the US after Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, in contrast to his native France, where the government is seeking to raise corporate taxes and unemployment is increasing.

He’s someone Trump really looks up to and wants to make happy,” a source said of LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, the wealthiest man in France.

"It's clear that we are being strongly pushed by the American authorities to continue to build out our presence," Bernard Arnault told reporters.

The LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton titan had prime seating near former Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush and Barack Obama.

With the economic outlook in France looking grim, Arnault said LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, Dior, Fendi and Moët & Chandon, is "seriously" considering opening more factories in the United States. Such a move would help the company to avoid the tariffs Trump has promised to enact on foreign goods sold in the United States.

Bernard Arnault said he spoke with Mark Zuckerberg about Meta layoffs, which the LVMH boss described as workers being "promoted outwards."

From the color of their neckties to the fit of their suits, male politicians can be intentional with their choices.

A shift seems to be happening for those selling Trump-branded real estate as well. In his first go-around as president, his name was considered so objectionable that six residential buildings on Riverside Drive went to great effort and expense (costs were estimated at as high as $1 million per building) to remove it from their facades.

LVMH chief Bernard Arnault and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani—the world’s fifth- and eighteenth-wealthiest people—attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration events Monday, marking a pair of surprise billionaire appearances at the event attended by a cadre of moguls worth well over $1 trillion.

A who's who of tech titans, business magnates, and global elites attended President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, including Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg.

Bernard Arnault, CEO of French magnate LVMH ... National Convention and briefly speaking at a rally over the weekend. She is the daughter of Donald Trump Jr., who has helped his father with some of his picks and is seen as an enforcer of loyalty in ...

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