Documents Detail More Than $330 Million in Donations for Trump’s White House Ballroom
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Documents obtained by The Washington Post detail more than $330 million in private contributions toward President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom, including large donations from technology and media companies.
Nvidia and Apple each pledged $25 million, while Comcast donated $7.5 million, according to the Post. The Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Foundation contributed $20.27 million, Microsoft gave $10 million, and Amazon, Meta, T-Mobile, Cisco and ServiceNow each gave $5 million. CNBC said Nvidia, Cisco and ServiceNow confirmed their donations.
At least $77 million came from anonymous donors, the Post reported. The documents recorded 67 contributions exceeding $10,000 as of late September and showed that donations were routed through a nonprofit trust. Donors received pledge forms identifying the project as the “Donald J. Trump Ballroom.”
Alphabet also agreed to direct $22 million toward the ballroom as part of a settlement of Trump’s lawsuit over YouTube’s suspension of his account following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents cited by Variety.
The White House has described the project as a roughly 90,000-square-foot event space with seating for 650 people. Construction was continuing at the former site of the demolished East Wing after the Supreme Court allowed work to proceed in a 5-4 ruling on Aug. 31.
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