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

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2025, 12:59 AM ET


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 more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/ballroom-donors-white-house-trump

[Walleye]

1. Bribery is not donation

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Will eventually cost over a $1 billion

once all the graft is included.

[Bengus81]

19. That's why Trump doesn't want taxpayers $$,he wants to grift millions of his marks

[otchmoson]

3. Thank you (or boycott)

Do we owe all these corporations a thank you note (or a boycott) in appreciation for their destructions of an iconic American building?

[unblock]

4. At $300 million and 90,000 square feet, that's about $3,333 per square foot.

I think skyscrapers are usually no more than around $1,000 per square foot, though I admit I haven't built too many skyscrapers lately....

Plus, a "ballroom" is a lot of empty space, much easier to build than having a lot of interior walls and such.

Yes, it's government and everyone involved should have security clearance, etc., but still. Sounds like 1/3 ballroom, 1/3 grift, and 1/3 secret underground who knows what that they aren't telling us....

[generalbetrayus]

7. Security clearances? Orange Julius Caesar will issue them himself instantly from the Oval Office at no cost

to the Federal budget.

[Farmer-Rick]

23. Pedo Trump is a really bad negotiater if he's paying that much

It's just an empty room. I guess they have toilets in it. Where else will the Pedo park his top secret documents?

Maybe a small kitchen for staging food from the larger kitchen. The rest is just empty space. Pedo Trump is really overpaying for a a useless bauble.

[generalbetrayus]

5. "Trump has repeatedly said that work on the ballroom is privately funded by himself and donors ..."

I'll believe that Orange Julius Caesar has contributed a single dime of his own to this hideous effort once I see the signed and cancelled check.

[PatSeg]

16. My reaction as well

He doesn't pay for anything he doesn't have to. Meanwhile, we still haven't seen his damn tax returns.

[BadgerKid]

6. Could've-been tax money for programs. Nt

[littlemissmartypants]

8. But that's a long term, repeat commitment. ...

This one off makes it a short term bribe. What the donors haven't figured out yet is extortion follows bribery.

But you make an excellent point. They're only "donating" for self enrichment. They don't care about society at-large.

[C_U_L8R]

9. It's not the East Wing

It’s the Right Wing (aka Reich Wing)

[Mawspam2]

20. The Right-Right Wing.

[Owens]

10. It's a money laundering slash bribery scheme

Find out who got the no-bid contract to do this construction, bet all the money is going back into his pocket

[Raven123]

11. One thing is for certain. If the contractors are getting paid, it's through 3rd parties

Taxpayers and/or corporations. Not Trump. If they don’t get paid, well - who cares?

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Normally during funding lapses

contractors are SOL (no billable hours are accepted for government payment), unless their prime pays them out of their own pocket.

[Ray Bruns]

13. Sounds like some corporations and people have plenty of money to pay extra taxes.

[mackdaddy]

14. I wonder if that just did a copy and paste from the Epstein list?

I do not doubt there is some overlap....

[twodogsbarking]

15. It will cost more and take longer than planned. Mistakes will be made.

[twodogsbarking]

17. Is Mexico on the list?

[Mawspam2]

18. The Jeffrey Epstein Ballroom will be filled with Russian, Chinese, Trump, Bezos, Zuckerberg bugs.,

The next president should move all White House operations to Andrew's AFB and declare the current White House a forever museum for the people.

[pwb]

21. All these Corporations could have lowered prices

for consumers with that money? But No.

[Mawspam2]

22. This should forever be known as "Shitler's List".

[Deminpenn]

24. The complete list

The complete list from the CNN link in the OP

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