Trump’s Got Big Tech And Crypto Bankrolling White House Ballroom

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

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

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