{"id":4033,"date":"2025-10-24T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/heres-the-list-of-donors-paying-for-trumps-new-white-house-ballroom\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:37:27","slug":"heres-the-list-of-donors-paying-for-trumps-new-white-house-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/heres-the-list-of-donors-paying-for-trumps-new-white-house-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s the list of donors paying for Trump’s new White House ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 The East Wing of the White House was fully demolished Thursday<\/a>, a White House official said, as construction pushes forward to build President Donald Trump\u2019s new ballroom.<\/p>\n

The project is a significant expansion<\/a> from what Trump said over the summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt won\u2019t interfere with the current building,\u201d Trump said on July 31. \u201cIt\u2019ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I\u2019m the biggest fan of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said Wednesday that the project would cost roughly $300 million, paid for by donors, including himself. He has also said it will hold up to 999 people.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the biggest change to the White House exterior since President Franklin D. Roosevelt expanded the East Wing \u2014 which traditionally houses the office of the first lady \u2014 in 1942.<\/p>\n

Trump hosted a dinner in the East Room on Wednesday evening to thank the corporations and individuals who contributed. (Comcast Corp., the parent company of NBCUniversal, is one of the donors.)<\/p>\n

The list of donors to the new ballroom, provided by the White House, is below. It\u2019s not clear how much each corporation or individual contributed:<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 The East Wing of the White House was fully demolished Thursday, a White House official said, as construction pushes forward to build President Donald Trump\u2019s new ballroom. The project is a significant expansion from what Trump said over the summer. \u201cIt won\u2019t interfere with the current building,\u201d Trump said on July 31. \u201cIt\u2019ll <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}