What you're looking at now is the biggest inaugural fund in the history of the United States.

Over $240 million dollars, nearly 800 donors, and no rules about how that money has to be spent, managed, or where it can come from.

This is all perfectly legal because, unlike on campaigns, there are virtually no laws regulating inaugural funds.

As a result, inauguration funds have become a major tool for corporate interests to buy influence in our government.

You're looking at all of big tech's donations to the second inauguration of Donald Trump.

Each of these companies gave a million dollars for the new President to throw a massive inauguration party, which many of their CEOs attended.

As a result, the historically anti-big tech Trump administration has softened its stance.

Before the inauguration, Meta was in poor standing with the government.

Under Biden, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was investigating Meta for illegally harvesting users' financial data to sell more ads on their platforms.

Then Trump takes office, Meta donates a million dollars, and the investigation vanishes.

In fact, the Trump administration basically shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau entirely.

Great for Mark Zuckerberg, not so much for the entire idea of protecting consumers.

In 2020, the previous Trump administration opened an antitrust case against Google - they said that Google had created an unfair monopoly.

Running the single biggest search engine and the single biggest web browser at the same time seemed unfair, they said.

Google actually lost the case, technically.

But the judge ruled that Google wouldn't have to change its business in a major way, they could keep the chrome web browser as long as they paid a measly fine that they could dig out of their couch cushions.

A lot of people saw it as a major blow to antitrust efforts.

And yet, 5 years after he opened the lawsuit, Trump changed course and congratulated the CEO of Google on the favorable ruling…

Nvidia got in on the action with a million dollar donation.

And what did they get? Permission.

The government had previously banned Nvidia from selling their most advanced AI chips to China, on the grounds that China would use them for military purposes.

Not the case anymore. AI chips can be sold to China again, although Nvidia does have to share 15% of the revenue with the US government.

Just like with Apple, tariffs seem to only apply to people who lack direct access to the President.

Unlimited corporate money has flowed into the coffers of the Trump inaugural fund, buying access without any oversight.

So of course, big tech companies weren't the only ones throwing their hats in the ring.

Up first, the top donor, a company called Pilgrim's Pride contributed $5 million.

They're one of the top chicken producers in the US, and this was their biggest political donation ever.

And you know what? It looks like they are getting good value for their money.

Because in March of this year, just a few months after the inauguration, the USDA started changing the rules around poultry production.

The USDA decided to let poultry giants speed up production, despite serious safety concerns.

On the first day of the new administration, Trump signed an order to expand drilling on federal land in Alaska where ConocoPhillips is the largest oil producer. The company gave $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund.

Then Republicans passed the "One Big Beautiful Bill" which had $18 billion in tax breaks and incentives for Big Oil.

And in July Trump reversed his own ban and decided that Chevron could operate in Venezuela.

All of this comes after Chevron made a $2 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund and ExxonMobil gave an additional $1 million.

Boeing made a contribution after having a VERY bad couple of years.

You might remember a few years ago their planes were falling out of the sky, hundreds of people died. Seems like the kind of events there might be a trial over.

But in May, the Department of Justice made a deal with Boeing to not prosecute them for crimes over the 737 crashes as long as Boeing paid about $1.1 billion in fines.

Sounds like a lot of money, until you learn that Boeing had just won a $50 billion contract with the Defense Department to build new F-47 fighter jets.

Delta and United airlines also got in on the action with $1 million donations each.

In September 2025, the Trump administration scrapped a Biden-era rule that would have required airlines to compensate stranded passengers with cash, hotels etc.

The Department of Transportation is also planning to rescind regulations requiring airlines to disclose service fees and revise rules on when airlines have to issue refunds for flight cancellations.

The crypto industry contributed more money than any other industry to President Trump’s inauguration fund - a whopping $14 million.

And they got their money's worth.

Crypto companies and schemes rocketed to the center of the Trump world at the start of this year, when Trump passed the GENIUS Act, the first major piece of legislation that brings crypto currencies into the formal economy, started dropping major investigations into crypto companies, created a strategic crypto currency reserve for the government, and launched his own memecoin on the Solana blockchain, another major donor.

Why are all of the largest corporations in the world funding Trump's vanity projects? The answer is quite simple: they are scared of Trump wielding power to hurt their businesses, and they recognize that Trump has set up a system of corporate corruption that allows them to buy the policies they want.

In the report below, you'll find every corporation that has enabled and financed Trump's inauguration and East Wing demolition…and the favors they got in return for that investment.