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MineralMan

(150,013 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:24 PM Yesterday

It Is Time for the Corporations That Are Funding Trump's Ballroom to Hear from Us!

Yes, indeed. Let's tell them exactly what we think of the idea.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/trump-ballroom-donors-list-00620230

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C_U_L8R

(48,340 posts)
1. Trump embarrasses them already
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:28 PM
Yesterday

How many will ask to have their names taken off the plaque on that overgilt ubergrifted gaudy mess of a ballroom?

MineralMan

(150,013 posts)
2. They need to claw back their contributions to it, or cancel them if not
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:30 PM
Yesterday

already paid out. We need to tell them that.

Scrivener7

(57,510 posts)
3. They're either crypto firms or companies like amazon and facebook that we have refused to boycott in the past
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:39 PM
Yesterday

and who have subsequently risen to positions of power with Cankles such that they don't need to care about our opinions.

Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta Platforms. Also heavily represented on the list were key players in the crypto industry, including Coinbase, Ripple, Tether and the influential Winklevoss twins, who have emerged as fierce allies of the president in recent months. Rounding out the list are tobacco companies Altria Group and Reynolds American, an oil magnate, and others who are subject to government regulations.


The only thing we can do about this is vote him out and then tear this monstrosity down.

Would have been nice, though, if we had boycotted facebook and amazon when it could have done something.

beaglelover

(4,360 posts)
4. No one is going to tear it down once it's built and now that the east wing is gone, there's no stopping the new
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:43 PM
Yesterday

construction. But you are right, the only way to change anything is to vote Republicans out of office including tRump!

Scrivener7

(57,510 posts)
6. I don't know about that. This is getting more and more extreme, and I wonder if, by the time
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:47 PM
Yesterday

he's dead or out, we won't have a French Revolution-type sentiment in the air.

SNAP benefits aren't going out next month. And MAGA are the biggest consumers of SNAP benefits. Lot's of people are going to be shocked and hungry.

Attilatheblond

(7,544 posts)
7. With trump handling the $ and the 'building' of the project, that ballroom will probably self-destruct within a decade.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:47 PM
Yesterday

Shoddy 'builder' known for cheating contractors and cutting corners does NOT build anything well.

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