There’s a new ballroom being built in Washington – and it’s not for the people.
The White House’s $300 million “Presidential Ballroom” will reportedly be funded by a coalition of America’s most powerful corporations: Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, T-Mobile, and Comcast.
The guest list doesn’t stop there.
Among the donors are billionaire Trump supporters: casino heiress Miriam Adelson, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, oil tycoon Harold Hamm, crypto twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Howard Lutnick, now Commerce Secretary and former Cantor Fitzgerald chief.
The official explanation?
To “foster diplomatic unity and strengthen America’s image abroad.”
Translation: an opulent networking lounge where the same billionaires who funded the campaign now fund the walls around it.
Big Tech builds the ballroom.
Big Oil brings the champagne.
And Big Money gets a front-row seat at democracy’s costume party.
If corruption once tried to hide behind closed doors, it’s now building its own chandelier.
The government didn’t just sell naming rights – it sold the illusion of independence.
In a world where Google sponsors governance and Lockheed Martin buys the backdrop, the line between state and corporation isn’t just blurred – it’s gone.
“Freedom – brought to you by whoever wrote the biggest check.”
