No more Rose Garden???

[KaraBulut]

...but Obama's basketball court!

 

[rareboy]

The list of donors who are paying for the Epstein Ballroom. The donations are being managed by the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit that helps manage federal projects...based on WaPo:

1. Altria Group
2. Amazon (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Post.)
3. Apple
4. Booz Allen Hamilton
5. Caterpillar
6. Coinbase
7. Comcast Corporation
8. Hard Rock International
9. Google ($22 million toward the ballroom came from a settlement Trump reached with the Google-owned video site YouTube. The agreement, announced in September, ended a lawsuit he brought over the company’s 2021 decision to suspend his account in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.)
10. HP
11. Lockheed Martin (in a statement, the company said it was “grateful for the opportunity to help bring the President’s vision to reality and make this addition to the People’s House, a powerful symbol of the American ideals we work to defend every day.”)
12. Meta Platforms
13. Micron Technology
14. Microsoft (in a statement earlier this month, the company said: “This project will benefit not only this presidency, but presidencies to come, as they welcome guests to the White House on behalf of the American people.”)
15. NextEra Energy
16. Palantir Technologies
17. Ripple
18. Reynolds American
19. T-Mobile (in a statement reported by CNN, the company said it had donated to the Trust for the National Mall “ahead of America’s 250th anniversary,” but had “no role in the use of those funds or decisions related to the construction of the ballroom.”)
20. Tether America
21. Union Pacific Railroad
22. J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
23. Adelson Family Foundation
24. Stefan E. Brodie
25. Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
26. Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
27. Edward and Shari Glazer
28. Harold Hamm
29. Benjamin Leon Jr.
30. The Lutnick Family
31. The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
32. Stephen A. Schwarzman
33. Konstantin Sokolov
34. Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
35. Paolo Tiramani (The founder of BOXABL, a company that makes prefabricated homes, said in an email Friday that his donor advised fund had donated $10 million in personal equities to the project. Tiramani said current facilities at the White House were not large enough to host events that “our country deserves” and said Trump “has put blood, treasure, life and liberty on the line to serve and I love him for it.” He added that the White House has been modified “many times over two centuries.”)
36. Cameron Winklevoss
37. Tyler Winklevoss

 

[rareboy]

And more on some of them.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/us/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors-invs

 

[KaraBulut]

The list of donors who are paying for the Epstein Ballroom. The donations are being managed by the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit that helps manage federal projects...based on WaPo:

1. Altria Group
2. Amazon (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Post.)
3. Apple
4. Booz Allen Hamilton
5. Caterpillar
6. Coinbase
7. Comcast Corporation
8. Hard Rock International
9. Google ($22 million toward the ballroom came from a settlement Trump reached with the Google-owned video site YouTube. The agreement, announced in September, ended a lawsuit he brought over the company’s 2021 decision to suspend his account in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.)
10. HP
11. Lockheed Martin (in a statement, the company said it was “grateful for the opportunity to help bring the President’s vision to reality and make this addition to the People’s House, a powerful symbol of the American ideals we work to defend every day.”)
12. Meta Platforms
13. Micron Technology
14. Microsoft (in a statement earlier this month, the company said: “This project will benefit not only this presidency, but presidencies to come, as they welcome guests to the White House on behalf of the American people.”)
15. NextEra Energy
16. Palantir Technologies
17. Ripple
18. Reynolds American
19. T-Mobile (in a statement reported by CNN, the company said it had donated to the Trust for the National Mall “ahead of America’s 250th anniversary,” but had “no role in the use of those funds or decisions related to the construction of the ballroom.”)
20. Tether America
21. Union Pacific Railroad
22. J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
23. Adelson Family Foundation
24. Stefan E. Brodie
25. Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
26. Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
27. Edward and Shari Glazer
28. Harold Hamm
29. Benjamin Leon Jr.
30. The Lutnick Family
31. The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
32. Stephen A. Schwarzman
33. Konstantin Sokolov
34. Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
35. Paolo Tiramani (The founder of BOXABL, a company that makes prefabricated homes, said in an email Friday that his donor advised fund had donated $10 million in personal equities to the project. Tiramani said current facilities at the White House were not large enough to host events that “our country deserves” and said Trump “has put blood, treasure, life and liberty on the line to serve and I love him for it.” He added that the White House has been modified “many times over two centuries.”)
36. Cameron Winklevoss
37. Tyler Winklevoss

This looks like a good list for the next Democratic FTC chair to look at for anti-trust actions. They can also divert some of that wasted money on ICE into FTC trust-busting actions.

 

[rareboy]

The US cannot and will not ever bust the techno-trusts. Because they now wholly own all branches of government and all the people in both parties that could do it and there is no mechanism to do it. Not even some future Dem. FTC chair. We saw that clearly during the Biden era.

 

[rareboy]

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[KaraBulut]

The US cannot and will not ever bust the techno-trusts. Because they now wholly own all branches of government and all the people in both parties that could do it and there is no mechanism to do it. Not even some future Dem. FTC chair. We saw that clearly during the Biden era.

It's worth noting that while Biden's Administration pursued anti-trust litigation to break up monopolies, Trump's FTC/DOJ are doing the same thing, however it usually results in a consent decree with a big donation from the company after "the v.".

Department of Justice Wins Significant Remedies Against Google

Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts...

www.justice.gov

Amazon, Apple and Google are helping pay for Trump’s ballroom as donor list revealed

Big Tech giants helping to bankroll president’s $300m White House project, full list of sponsors reveals

www.independent.co.uk

 

[rareboy]

The error that the person below makes is assuming that the 90,000 sf is all on one floor.

There would be at least two floors with the ballroom on the upper floor.

But more likely 3 levels with a basement, meeting rooms and offices etc on the ground floor and the Ballroom on the upper floor.

And the link to the White House residence itself will be at least two levels so even at 40 feet wide, would be about 6000 sf+ per floor. So this would be about 27,500 sf per floor...still fucking huge.

But he is right. This is all just imagination. Renderings and concepts.

But what Trump did is an old developer's trick to force a project. Demolish what you want to replace as fast as possible and get some excavation going while the actual design and construction drawings are being developed.

As TrumpCo. noted...the National Capitol Commission only addresses what is to be built, not what is demolished.

So move fast and break things.

 

[KaraBulut]

The error that the person below makes is assuming that the 90,000 sf is all on one floor.

There would be at least two floors with the ballroom on the upper floor.

But more likely 3 levels with a basement, meeting rooms and offices etc on the ground floor and the Ballroom on the upper floor.

And the link to the White House residence itself will be at least two levels so even at 40 feet wide, would be about 6000 sf+ per floor. So this would be about 27,500 sf per floor...still fucking huge.

But he is right. This is all just imagination. Renderings and concepts.

But what Trump did is an old developer's trick to faorce a project. Demolish what you want to replace as fast as possible and get some excavation going while the actual design and construction drawings are being developed.

That's one puzzling thing... the White House has had several underground excavations to build bunkers- during the 1940s-1950s during the Cold War, possibly during the Kennedy Administration, definitely in the Obama Administration and those are just the ones that we know about.

Because the East Wing was used for war planning during WWII, it definitely had a bunker underneath it.

Washington DC was once a marsh. It has alluvial soils and some of it is actually landfill where they filled in marshland.

I'm just puzzled what will happen when an enormous building is placed upon an area that is partially reinforced bunker and partially alluvial soils that are prone to subsidence. You know that with the fast way that this is happening, they didn't bring in engineers to study that section of the grounds.