A long list of individual and corporate donors to Trump’s ballroom project was released on Thursday, and it includes tech giants, crypto kings, tobacco companies, oil companies, and other entities who would be subject to government regulation.
- From the tech industry, there were leaders of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta.
- From the world of crypto, there was Coinbase, Ripple, Tether and the influential Winklevoss twins, early buyers of bitcoin.
- There are Cabinet members, including the Lutnick family, Kelly Loeffler and her husband, and Benjamin Leon, Jr.
- Several billionaires who dined with the Dictator Wannabe last week have donated, including Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, oil magnate Harold Hamm, Israeli-American investor Isaac Perlmutter, private equity investor Konstantin Sokolov and Edward Glazer, who owns the British soccer team Manchester United.
- Stefan Brodie, a biotech entrepreneur who was convicted of violating sanctions on Cuba in 2002, and was denied a pardon by Joe Biden, was on the list.
- Cuban-American sugar baron José Fanjul and his wife, Emilia, donated after convincing Trump to push Coca-Cola to use cane sugar in its signature soda.
The complete list, according to Politico:
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase
Comcast Corporation
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
Hard Rock International
Google
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. Schwarzman
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
Of note, according to Karoline Leavitt:
Renovations to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center below the East Wing would also be funded privately and the Office of the First Lady would continue to be housed in the East Wing following the renovation.
The Presidential Emergency Operations Center is a bunker underneath the East Wing of the White House. It serves as a secure shelter and communications center for the president of the United States and others in case of an emergency. — from Wikipedia