Apple is among the major tech companies donating to fund President Trump's 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom that demolition has already started for, a project the President says will be privately financed.
Apple is among several prominent tech companies that have made donations to help fund President Trump's ballroom project. Apple was found among the usual suspects, including tech giants Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.
The proposed ballroom will come in at an impressive 90,000 square feet. Trump has stated that the project will cost "about $300 million," although the administration had previously suggested a budget of $200 million.
Allegedly, the ballroom will be entirely funded by Trump and private donors. He has repeatedly said the work will not be funded by taxpayer money.
According to CNN, the list includes companies such as:
- Amazon
- Apple
- Caterpillar, Inc.
- Coinbase
- Comcast Corporation
- 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
The move isn't terribly surprising. Companies like Apple have found themselves making increasingly elaborate gestures to the Trump administration in an effort to curry favor and avoid punitive action.
In August, Apple CEO Tim Cook gifted Trump a glass-and-gold commemorative plaque. To take it a step further, the entire plaque, including the box it came in, was all made in America.
