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dalton99a

(90,884 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:47 PM Yesterday

White House releases list of donors for Trump's multi-million-dollar ballroom

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-releases-list-donors-045917639.html

White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom
Kit Maher, Jake Tapper, Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN
Wed, October 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM CDT

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House.

Trump has repeatedly said that work on the ballroom is privately funded by himself and donors and will cost nothing to taxpayers.

On Wednesday, Trump discussed his plans for the ballroom, saying it will cost “about $300 million.” The administration previously put the cost of the ballroom project at $200 million.

Additional donors include co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and his family; and the Adelson family. Trump awarded Miriam Adelson, a Republican megadonor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018.

Read the list of White House ballroom donors:

Altria Group, Inc.

Amazon

Apple

Booz Allen Hamilton

Caterpillar, Inc.

Coinbase

Comcast Corporation

J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul

Hard Rock International

Google

HP Inc.

Lockheed Martin

Meta Platforms

Micron Technology

Microsoft

NextEra Energy, Inc.

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Ripple

Reynolds American

T-Mobile

Tether America

Union Pacific Railroad

Adelson Family Foundation

Stefan E. Brodie

Betty Wold Johnson Foundation

Charles and Marissa Cascarilla

Edward and Shari Glazer

Harold Hamm

Benjamin Leon Jr.

The Lutnick Family

The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Konstantin Sokolov

Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher

Paolo Tiramani

Cameron Winklevoss

Tyler Winklevoss

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White House releases list of donors for Trump's multi-million-dollar ballroom (Original Post) dalton99a Yesterday OP
I may have to cancel my Amazon and Apple accounts... wcmagumba Yesterday #1
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and his family; and the Adelson family. elleng Yesterday #2
The poor Winklevii C_U_L8R Yesterday #3
Does anyone believe anything he says, though? Johonny Yesterday #4
It's bribes now Johnny2X2X Yesterday #5
The craziest part... lame54 Yesterday #6
Corporatotacry progressoid Yesterday #7

wcmagumba

(4,980 posts)
1. I may have to cancel my Amazon and Apple accounts...
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:51 PM
Yesterday

I need to go back to reading books anyway...

elleng

(141,223 posts)
2. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and his family; and the Adelson family.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:56 PM
Yesterday

Trump awarded Miriam Adelson, a Republican megadonor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018.

C_U_L8R

(48,346 posts)
3. The poor Winklevii
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 02:30 PM
Yesterday

Trying so desperately to achieve recognition and respect after crapping their pants over Facebook.

Johonny

(24,918 posts)
4. Does anyone believe anything he says, though?
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 02:32 PM
Yesterday

I assume he pockets that money and uses tax payer funding. Why? Because no one would stop him.

Johnny2X2X

(23,522 posts)
5. It's bribes now
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 02:57 PM
Yesterday

It's a pay to play totally corrupt government.

Cynics will say it always was, but the truth is this is about 1000 times more blatant than has ever existed.

If Trump lives long enough, he'll drain the entire US treasury into his own pockets.

lame54

(38,696 posts)
6. The craziest part...
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 03:34 PM
Yesterday

It's generally accepted that he will stop there
90,000 sq ft ballroom
55,000 sq ft Whitehouse
There gonna need more room

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