PIF’s Yasir Al-Rumayyan sits with Trump, Musk at UFC 309 matches
Saudi sovereign wealth fund chief spotted chatting with the President-elect during United Fighting Championship event at Madison Square Garden
Saudi Public Investment Fund Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan (left) watches UFC 309 with President-elect Donald Trump and Tesla founder Elon Musk at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night (Getty Images)
Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, sat with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk in ringside seats at the United Fighting Championship’s UFC 309 event on Saturday night in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Al-Rumayyan, who is also Chairman of Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, as well as the PIF-owned LIV Golf tournament and English football club Newcastle, showed up in a photo posted on Musk’s X social media platform, chatting with fellow golf lover Trump while watching the fights.
Al-Rumayyan has been negotiating for the past two years over a proposed merger with the PGA golf tour after luring some of the top professional golfers with paychecks of over $200 million. The two sides, along with Europe’s DP World Tour, reached a framework merger agreement in June 2023 that has yet to be finalized.
The former President’s Trump National Golf Club in Bedminister, N.J., hosted LIV Golf tournaments in 2022 and 2023.