Overview

• At a lavish White House dinner, President Trump thanked billionaire and corporate donors for financing the new ballroom now under construction.
• Representatives from Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Palantir and Lockheed Martin were listed among guests, with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss observed in attendance.
• Trump said the ballroom is entirely privately funded and claimed $22 million came from a September agreement with YouTube following his past account suspension.
• He drew back East Room curtains to reveal ongoing work, describing the addition as the largest to the White House in more than a century with capacity for 1,000 people and four bulletproof-glass walls.
• Beyond the ballroom, Trump displayed models for a proposed 'Arc de Trump' near the Lincoln Memorial to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary, with a scale model photographed on the Resolute Desk during his meeting with Finland’s prime minister.