In Trumpworld, Larry Ellison gets more credit than anyone else for operating in the shadows. Over a drink earlier in Donald Trump’s second term, one of the president’s advisers described the Oracle cofounder, chairman, and chief technology officer to me as a literal “shadow president of the United States,” if not necessarily the shadow president. In the months since, Ellison, who’s been trading the title of “richest man alive” with Elon Musk lately, has begun to live up to the moniker. As nice as it is to be a billionaire, it’s even better to be one flying below most people’s radar in Trump’s Washington. “He does a brilliant job of being, let’s call it the anti-Elon,” a Trumpworld source in the AI industry tells me, referring to Ellison.