US EditionWhite House releases donor list for Trump ballroom amid East Wing demolition
Private donors including major tech and crypto firms fund the $300 million White House ballroom project with military involvement ensuring design and construction standards.
- The White House is demolishing the East Wing to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, as claimed by Trump, who stated the project will cost "about $300 million" and be privately funded, costing taxpayers nothing.
- Hakeem Jeffries of New York criticized the construction, saying the White House is more focused on Trump's ballroom than on rising living costs and health care.
- The National Trust for Historic Preservation expressed concerns that the proposed new construction will overwhelm the White House and disrupt its classical design.
- Major companies, including Apple and Amazon, are reportedly donating funds for the ballroom project, which Trump says costs nothing to taxpayers.
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Here are the corporations and donors footing the bill for Trump’s new White House ballroom
Billionaire donors and top corporations are footing the bill for President Trump's $300 million ballroom at the White House, according to officials — and include Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Coinbase, Gemini and GOP megadonors like the Winklevoss twins and Miriam Adelson.
This week began the construction of the $250 million ballroom that President Donald Trump is adding to the White House, while construction teams began to tear down the East Wing façade, where the new space is being built. The 90,000-square-foot ballroom will dwarf the White House itself, almost twice the size, and Trump says it will have capacity for 999 people. Trump said on social media that the ballroom will not cost the taxpayers a penny bec…
Trump ballroom donors list draws allegations of 'pay to play'
President Donald Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing and his plan to construct a 650-person ballroom in its place have attracted deep-pocketed donors, some of whom are now facing ethical concerns, or condemnation for supporting what many view as the needless erasure of American history and heritage.“Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donatio…
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