Trump’s got Big Tech and crypto bankrolling White House ballroom

Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House to marque mode for a gilded expansive ballroom. The president says taxpayers won’t beryllium footing the $300 cardinal measure and that backstage donors, himself included, volition prime up the tab. 

Big Tech volition beryllium paying for a batch of it, if the database of donors released by the White House Thursday is thing to spell by (though it does not accidental however overmuch each contributed). Featured are immoderate of the country’s biggest tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Google-owned YouTube has already agreed to wage much than $20 cardinal to the task arsenic portion of a controversial settlement to end a suit Trump filed successful 2021 and the companies are big donors to Trump’s “nonprofits.” 

Crypto is good represented, too, with donations from Ripple, Tether America, Coinbase, and some Winklevoss twins (Cameron and Tyler diagnostic separately). Defense and telecom giants similar Lockheed Martin, Comcast, T-Mobile, and Palantir besides appear.