Apple and Nvidia each gave $25 million toward President Trump's White House ballroom, according to donor records published by The Washington Post today. They're the two biggest tech donors on the list.
Google is next at $22 million, money that came out of a 2025 legal settlement. Microsoft and Palantir put in $10 million each, and Amazon, Meta, Cisco, T-Mobile, ServiceNow and Coinbase gave $5 million apiece. Add up just Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta and you get $92 million. Counting crypto firms and individual executives like Roblox CEO David Baszucki and the Winklevoss twins, The Verge says tech and crypto have put in more than $150 million.
Some of the money came straight from the companies, some through affiliated charities and some from individuals. These are companies with plenty of business pending in Washington, from antitrust cases to chip export rules, so this list is going to come up again.
— via The Verge