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That didn’t take long.

The price of Trump’s palatial ballroom, no doubt to feature plenty of gold, was originally priced at $200 million but in the few weeks since it was first announced, the cost as already risen by 50 percent, to $300 MILLION.

Could Trump’s tariffs be behind the increase?

No matter. It’s all being paid for by private donors.

Kinda like Mexico’s paying for the wall, right?

Well, maybe so, maybe not. The White House has released the donor list for the structure. Of course, the Epstein files still haven’t been released.

Following is the complete list of donors, though the White House conveniently omitted the amounts pledged by each of the sycophants:

• Altria Group, Inc.
• Amazon
• Apple
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Caterpillar, Inc.
• Coinbase
• Comcast Corporation
• J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
• Hard Rock International
• Google
• HP Inc.
• Lockheed Martin
• Meta Platforms
• Micron Technology
• Microsoft
• NextEra Energy, Inc.
• Palantir Technologies Inc.
• Ripple
• Reynolds American
• T-Mobile
• Tether America
• Union Pacific Railroad
• Adelson Family Foundation
• Stefan E. Brodie
• Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
• Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
• Edward and Shari Glazer
• Harold Hamm
• Benjamin Leon Jr.
• The Lutnick Family
• The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
• Stephen A. Schwarzman
• Konstantin Sokolov
• Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
• Paolo Tiramani
• Cameron Winklevoss
• Tyler Winklevoss

Most of the donors appear to be individuals as opposed to corporations, though there are a few of those, as well.

You can bet the farm that those people/corporations are not writing checks out of the goodness of their hearts. It’s either because Agent Orange us using political leverage or because the donors want something in return.

Take Lockheed Martin, for example. Do you reckon they are going to get their contribution back in spades by fudging just a bit on their federal contracts?

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon, T-Mobile, et al? They aren’t in the habit of being benevolent without expecting something in return.

And let’s not forget the CHEETO BANDITO’s demand that the federal government pay him $230 million to cover his costs in defending the investigations of his hoarding classified documents and a few other violations. Remember, Cadet Bone Spurs said the bulk of the cost of the ballroom would be paid by him, with no cost to taxpayers – like perhaps, $230 million?

Now we just have to brace ourselves for the next cost estimate increase.