Apple has committed $25 million to President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom project, matching the contribution from Nvidia as one of the largest gifts disclosed so far, according to a Washington Post report on Thursday.
The Post’s reporting, based on internal fundraising records, shows Apple and Nvidia each at the top of the donor list at $25 million. The Adelson family, longtime major Republican supporters, and billionaire Charles Ergen, co-founder and chairman of Dish Network, each committed the same amount. The documents indicate roughly $333 million in private donations for the project overall.
The White House has declined to release detailed donor information. Spokesman Davis Ingle described the contributors as representing “a wide array of great American companies.” Trump has previously said he and wealthy donors would cover the estimated $400 million cost of the ballroom itself. He later sought additional congressional funding for an underground bunker and security features to harden the facility.
Trump has described the overall project as including a six-story subterranean complex beneath the ballroom, with a military hospital, research facilities, bomb shelters, and other emergency and military installations. He has also said the roof would serve as a drone base or port with capacity for large numbers of drones, designed both to be drone-proof and to support defensive operations protecting Washington. Features he has outlined include hardened steel construction, missile-resistant elements, and blast-proof glass. The president has also described the ballroom itself as essentially a “shed” covering the more complex military and emergency facilities below. The White House has provided limited further details on these aspects, as many of them are classified.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s $25 million gift places the Cupertino-based company among the most prominent contributors to the privately funded ballroom portion of the project.
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Let the Trump taint licking continue.
Will the Democrats and the Left be excluded from using the Ballroom when they are in power, or will they be their typical hypocritical self, despite all their whining and complaining of cost, size, destruction of White House etc., be whooping it up with their Hollywood and News Media sycophants in said facility?
I have little to say about the new ballroom, but WHY in the World is the CEO of one of the World’s wealthiest companies “chipping-in” for the build?