U.S. President Donald Trump speaks holding a photos of the caller ballroom during a gathering with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, DC connected October 22, 2025.
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Big Tech and different publically traded companies are helping to concern the $300 cardinal White House ballroom planned by President Donald Trump.
The White House East Wing has been demolished to marque country for the 90,000 quadrate ft ballroom, sparking nationalist choler aft Trump promised successful July that the gathering would not beryllium impacted.
Trump has said the operation of the ballroom volition beryllium financed by his ain funds and firm and idiosyncratic donors astatine nary outgo to the taxpayer. The president said Wednesday the task volition outgo $300 million, up from an archetypal estimation of $200 million.
Trump has not said however overmuch helium is spending. White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters connected Thursday that the president volition disclose his contribution.
The White House has released a database of donors that see Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft and Meta.
Alphabet is contributing $22 cardinal which represents astir 7% of the project's estimated cost. Its publication is the effect of a colony reached with Trump past period implicit a suit helium filed against YouTube for banning him from the level aft a riot by his supporters against Congress connected Jan. 6, 2021.
The colony notes that $22 cardinal volition beryllium contributed connected Trump's behalf "to the Trust for the National Mall, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity dedicated to restoring, preserving, and elevating the National Mall, to enactment the operation of the White House State Ballroom."
Donors besides see Palantir, Micron, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, Continental Resources laminitis Harold Hamm, and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, according to the White House list.
"Lockheed Martin is grateful for the accidental to assistance bring the President's imaginativeness to world and marque this summation to the People's House, a almighty awesome of the American ideals we enactment to support each day," a institution spokesperson said successful a statement.
Comcast, CNBC's existent genitor company, is besides connected the donor list. CNBC has reached retired to Comcast for comment.
Here are the donors disclosed by the White House:
- Altria Group Inc.
- Amazon
- Apple
- Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- Caterpillar Inc.
- Coinbase
- Comcast Corporation
- J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
- Hard Rock International
- HP Inc.
- Lockheed Martin
- Meta Platforms
- Micron Technology
- Microsoft
- NextEra Energy Inc.
- Palantir Technologies Inc.
- Ripple
- Reynolds American
- T-Mobile
- Tether America
- Union Pacific Railroad
- Adelson Family Foundation
- Stefan E. Brodie
- Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
- Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
- Edward and Shari Glazer
- Harold Hamm
- Benjamin Leon Jr.
- The Lutnick Family
- The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
- Stephen A. Schwarzmann
- Konstantin Sokolov
- Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
- Paolo Tiramani
- Cameron Winklevoss
- Tyler Winklevoss
Disclosure: Comcast, the existent genitor institution of CNBC, is connected the database of firm donors. It is not wide however overmuch Comcast has contributed to the project. CNBC volition rotation disconnected from Comcast nether the ownership of a caller genitor company, Versant.
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