President-elect Donald Trump is marking his return to the White Home with a record-breaking fundraising complete of $250 million for his inaugural efforts, sources aware of Trump’s fundraising advised ABC Information.
This complete consists of the official Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee in addition to Trump’s different massive fundraising automobiles which were placing collectively his inaugural festivities this weekend, surpassing his first inaugural fundraising complete of $107 million.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a rally forward of the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration, Jan. 19, 2025, in Washington.
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As ABC Information has reported, Trump’s second inauguration has had notable assist from quite a few tech giants brazenly celebrating his return to the White Home, with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Shou Chew and Jeff Bezos initially anticipated to be given prime seats on the inauguration.
Main inaugural tech donations embody $1 million every from Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Uber. For Meta, specifically, that is the primary time they’ve donated to a presidential inauguration, whereas Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have contributed to previous presidential inaugurations.
President-elect Donald Trump with businessman Elon Musk on stage throughout a rally in Washington, Jan. 19, 2025.
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Trump’s inaugural committee has additionally acquired main donations from the cryptocurrency trade, together with $5 million from Ripple, $2 million from Robinhood, and $1 million from Coinbase, sources advised ABC Information. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chief Authorized Officer Stuart Alderoty met with Trump earlier this month, they posted on social media.
Different main companies which have donated traditionally donated to presidential inaugurations have additionally donated this time as properly, together with Financial institution of America and Boeing.
-ABC Information’ Soorin Kim
