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Trump's Corporate Favor Factory
• By David MooreWe researched more than 150 top donors to Trump's inauguration fund and White House ballroom to find the government favors they've received this year.
Hundreds of large companies and wealthy individuals donated to the inaugural fund of Donald Trump and JD Vance after their election last year, more than doubling President Trump's previous record and raking in $248 million. Since the Trump administration has taken power and reeled off executive orders and regulatory changes, more enormous donations from companies looking to curry favor with the White House have piled into Trump's presidential library nonprofit—and recently, to the nonprofit behind his ballroom project.
What favors have Trump's inaugural and ballroom donors received from his administration this year? We dug in to find out: Trump's Corporate Colluders.
In collaboration with the nonprofit More Perfect Union, we researched the regulatory handouts, legal relief, and policy wins of more than 150 top donors to the groups. The website lets visitors search by company or donor name and see the range of benefits that accrued to them this year—which also include industry-favorable laws signed, ambassadorships bestowed, and dozens of halted enforcement actions.
A new video by More Perfect Union covers how the CEOs of tech giants like Amazon and Meta appeared alongside Trump after making million-dollar donations, then saw their Federal Trade Commission cases ended or Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigations frozen. Not just Big Tech—companies like Chevron, Boeing, and Delta notched wide-ranging wins this year in Washington:
The crypto industry donated more than any other industry to Trump's inauguration fund, according to a categorization by OpenSecrets, giving at least $14 million. In March, donors Ripple Labs ($4.9 million) and Solana ($1 million) had their crypto tokens (SOL and XRP) included in the president's US Digital Asset Stockpile, a decision that some crypto analysts called a surprise. A few months later, the exchange Crypto.com, whose parent company Foris Dax donated $1 million, was selected by Trump Media and Technology Group to be the custodian of its crypto exchange-traded fund.




