Other donors includes Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Charlie Ergen and Ike Perlmutter
\n\nComcast forked out $7.5 million to help fund President Donald Trump‘s new 90,000-square-foot gold-plated ballroom and event space, with the company among the 57 corporate donors to the project.
\n\nTotal donations to the new ballroom, which is being built on the site of the White House’s East Wing, have come to $330 million, according to a Washington Post report published Thursday. Comcast and other companies had already been identified as contributors toward the ballroom but the specific dollar figures of the amounts were not previously disclosed.
\n\nTech giants Nvidia and Apple each gave $25 million toward the ballroom, as did Charlie Ergen, co-founder and chairman of Dish Network, per the Post. The Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Foundation gave $20.27 million; Ike Perlmutter is the former CEO of Marvel Entertainment who was ousted by Disney in 2023.
\n\nMicrosoft donated $10 million, while Amazon, T-Mobile and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta each gave $5 million, per the report.
\n\nIn addition, Alphabet, parent company of Google and YouTube, agreed to pay Trump $22 million as part of settling the president’s lawsuit alleging “censorship” over YouTube’s suspension of his account for his role in…
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