Technology companies such as Amazon, Apple and Gemini, along with more than a dozen magnates from various sectors, are included in the list of sponsors who raised $300 million to build the controversial ballroom that President Donald Trump will locate in the east wing of the Presidential House, which began to be demolished this week.
The Trump Administration shared the extensive and complete list of wealthy donors and corporations for the 90,000 square meter project that will be built in the area of the White House that is being demolished by bulldozers this week.
Among the dozens of companies, Amazon, owned by tycoon Jeff Bezos, Meta owned by Mark Zuckerberg, Google, Gemini and Microsoft owned by Bill Gates stand out.
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The list directly mentions investor Konstantin Sokolov, Trump’s oilman and financier Harold Hamm, as well as the couple made up of former Republican senator Kelly Loeffer and Jeff Sprecher, who is the director of Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the New York Stock Exchange.
The list includes Benjamín León, the magnate of Cuban origin who this morning was confirmed as the new United States ambassador to Spain, after having been proposed in early 2025 by Trump.
During a dinner sponsored by Trump last week at the White House, the Republican gathered the magnates and jokingly assured that “this is the price of having access to the president” and also said that the ballroom work would not cost Americans a cent.
The design corresponds to the firm McCrery Architects, which will preserve the American neoclassical style characteristic of the presidential complex.
The East Wing of the White House was built in 1902, during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, to visually balance the West Wing, where the Oval Office is located.
Initially it was a simple two-story structure, which was expanded in 1942, under the mandate of Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the addition of an underground bunker.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit organization, issued an urgent call for a halt to work “until the plans go through the required legal public review processes.”
With information from EFE.
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