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Big Tech helps fund $300m ballroom for White House
The Independent
|October 25, 2025
The full list of donors to Donald Trump's $300m (£225m) White House ballroom project has been published, with Big
Tech giants Amazon, Apple, Google, HP and Microsoft all chipping in.
Other notable contributors include the cryptocurrency businesses Coinbase and Ripple, the Winklevoss Twins, Comcast, Lockheed Martin, Palantir Technologies, T-Mobile, Union Pacific Railroad, oil baron Harold Hamm, the family of commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and members of the Glazer family, which owns Manchester United and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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