{"id":36140,"date":"2025-10-22T21:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/youtubes-settlement-with-trump-is-helping-pay-for-the-white-house-demolition-and-ballroom\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:51:31","slug":"youtubes-settlement-with-trump-is-helping-pay-for-the-white-house-demolition-and-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/youtubes-settlement-with-trump-is-helping-pay-for-the-white-house-demolition-and-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube&#8217;s settlement with Trump is helping pay for the White House demolition and ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68f932a7599d46a4ccc0a957?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Construction equipment tear down part of the East Wing of the White House to construct Trump&#039;s ballroom\"\/><figcaption>Alphabet is helping pay for President Donald Trump&#039;s plan to build a White House ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Alphabet contributed $22 million to Trump&#039;s White House ballroom project.<\/li>\n<li>The contribution is part of a legal settlement after Trump&#039;s YouTube suspension.<\/li>\n<li>The ballroom&#039;s total cost is estimated at $250 million, with private funding sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alphabet is helping pay for President Donald Trump&#039;s White House ballroom, according to federal court filings.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a legal settlement reached last month with Trump, Alphabet, which owns YouTube, is contributing $22 million toward Trump&#039;s White House construction plans. Trump sued the tech giant after it suspended his YouTube channel for two years, following the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>Images showing demolition work on the East Wing to make way for the ballroom have sparked scrutiny this week and renewed the question over who&#039;s paying for the estimated $250 million, 90,000-square-foot addition.<\/p>\n<p>According to court filings in Oakland, California, Alphabet&#039;s contribution, which accounts for roughly 10% of the total projected cost, will be made on Trump&#039;s behalf to the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit entity dedicated to restoring and preserving the National Mall.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The White House Ballroom is being privately funded by many generous Patriots, Great American Companies, and, yours truly,&quot; Trump said Monday on his social media platform Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in July that the ballroom construction would not &quot;interfere&quot; with the current building.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;ll be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I&#039;m the biggest fan of,&quot; Trump said of the East Wing in July during an executive order signing.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported earlier today that the entire East Wing is being demolished.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68f945ebc007ca8c27377489?format=jpeg\" alt=\"The demolished east wing crumbling down.\"\/><figcaption>The East Wing facade is crumbling down under demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is unclear exactly who else will be footing the bill for the ballroom aside from Alphabet, or if Trump himself would privately contribute to the project. A list of potential donors attended a dinner at the White House on October 15, including executives from Blackstone, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>According to a White House statement in July, the ballroom is being designed by DC-based McCrery Architects, which specializes in religious architecture and boasts a portfolio of designing cathedrals and monasteries. A construction team led by Clark Construction and an engineering team headed by AECOM are in charge of the demolition and building process.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet is helping pay for President Donald Trump&#039;s plan to build a White House ballroom. Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images Alphabet contributed $22 million to Trump&#039;s White House ballroom project. The contribution is part of a legal settlement after Trump&#039;s YouTube suspension. The ballroom&#039;s total cost is estimated at $250 million, with private funding sources. 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