Apple Pledged $25 Million to Trump's White House Ballroom

Apple pledged $25 cardinal for Trump's White House ballroom, according to a database of donors obtained by The Washington Post.


Chipmaker Nvidia besides committed $25 million, making Apple and Nvidia 2 of the apical donors. Other donors see Microsoft, Comcast, Amazon, Cisco, Meta, T-Mobile, HP, Google (from a suit settlement), Palantir, Salesforce, and Micron. Private donations connected the database totaled $333 million, with immoderate donors paying successful afloat and immoderate paying successful installments.

The White House has not publically disclosed donation amounts, adjacent though governmental giving typically requires nationalist disclosure and adherence to run concern rules. The Trump medication is collecting ballroom donations done a nonprofit and moving the funds into a White House relationship controlled by Trump.

A White House spokesperson said the medication volition "relentlessly prosecute those responsible" for the leaked list.

The ballroom's last outgo hasn't been released, but a June contractor estimation suggested it would cost astir $600 million and that much than fractional of the wealth would travel from payer funds.

Trump says the ballroom volition beryllium astir 90,000 quadrate feet and volition spot 1,000 guests. The White House's East Wing was demolished to conception the ballroom.
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