Breaking All Records, Trump's Inauguration Set to Bring in $250M from Billionaires & Corporations

[Uncle Joe]

The ultra-rich have donated a record-shattering amount of funds to the 2025 Trump-Vance Presidential Inaugural Committee, with contributions from major corporations like Apple, Chevron, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Google, Pfizer, Microsoft and the pharmaceutical lobby. On Monday, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos will attend Trump's inauguration with the world's richest man, Elon Musk, and a slew of other wealthy individuals tapped to join the new White House administration. "What's even more concerning than the total amount being spent is the size of the donations that are coming in from corporations and billionaires, all of whom — just about all of whom — want something from the Trump administration," says Craig Holman, Public Citizen's Capitol Hill lobbyist, who is pushing for new legislation to regulate donations to the inauguration ceremony. "They are buying influence with the Trump administration, so we're going to see scandal after scandal follow this inauguration. And reform often comes on the heels of scandal."

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[CousinIT]

1. Because that is who this oligarchy will represent. Exclusively.

To the grave detriment of the rest of us.

[riversedge]

2. Sadly, I agree.

[unblock]

3. blatant and staggering corruption

they can't even pretend there's a legitimate basis for these contributions.

"currying favor" is the polite way to say they are paying in an effort to corruptly influence the government.

inaugural contributions have always been dodgy, but the scale is now such that it's impossible to say it's anything but a corrupt payment.

and this go-round, donnie has been pretty explicit on the shakedown side of things. these aren't just businesses looking to bribe, this is also donnie already abusing his power to hit up companies for money, he's basically said that companies who don't contribute enough will be treated adversely under his administration.

entirely corrupt.

[rickford66]

4. I hope he invests all of it in NFT's