Trump Adviser Admits Larry Ellison Is "Shadow President of the United States"

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Trump Adviser Admits Larry Ellison Is “Shadow President of the United States”

A billionaire president. A billionaire "First Buddy." And now...

By Frank Landymore
Published Sep 26, 2025 10:25 AM EDT

Elon Musk may have blown up his relationship with Donald Trump like a Tesla battery that caught fire, but there’s another centibillionaire out there with deep influence in the Oval Office: Larry Ellison.

The Oracle cofounder — who drooled last year that omnipresent AI surveillance will ensure “citizens will be on their best behavior” — is now the second richest man in the world, with a net worth north of $350 billion. He commands a business empire that spans everything from cloud computing to the news you watch. Ellison’s so influential, in fact, that a Trump adviser admitted to a Wired reporter that he’s literally a “shadow president of the United States.”

“He does a brilliant job of being, let’s call it the anti-Elon,” another Trump associate in the AI industry told Wired in a new story. “He’s not kind of feared directly, but people in the know in Washington know he has some tremendous pull.”

Despite being enormously wealthy for ages, Ellison’s rise as an influential shadow orchestrator is a bit of a left turn. Three decades ago, Vanity Fair was calling Ellison Silicon Valley’s “most notorious playboy.” He burned through several marriages and reportedly flew fighter jets that he owned in mock dogfights with his son. He also had an appetite for buying colossal yachts, and even entire Hawaiian islands.

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