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WaPo: Apple revealed as one of the top donors to Trump’s White House ballroom
A new investigation by The Washington Post reveals that Apple and Nvidia each pledged $25 million toward Trump’s new White House ballroom, making them two of the project’s largest donors. Here are the details.
“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.”
The controversial project, whose estimated construction cost has climbed to $600 million, has now come under even closer scrutiny following a new investigation by The Washington Post, which obtained internal fundraising records containing previously undisclosed details about donors and the amounts they committed.
According to the report, Apple, Nvidia, the Adelson Family Foundation, and the Charlie Ergen household and donor-advised fund each pledged $25 million, collectively accounting for roughly 30% of the $333 million in reported contributions.
The numbers are from an internal spreadsheet obtained by The Post.
While Apple’s involvement was already public knowledge, the amount of its contribution had not previously been disclosed.
Other donations associated with the tech sector reportedly include:
The list also includes $5 million contributions from Cisco, Coinbase, Ripple, ServiceNow, and T-Mobile, as well as $1 million from cryptocurrency exchange Kraken and space-station developer Vast Space.
To read The Washington Post’s full report, follow this link.
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