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BumRushDaShow

(172,425 posts)
Sat May 23, 2026, 08:25 AM 2 hrs ago

Japanese company pours $50 million into Trump Presidential Library

Source: msn/MEDIAite

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According to a Friday exclusive from Politico, Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group quietly donated $50 million to President Donald Trump’s future presidential library and foundation — one of the largest publicly known contributions to the project so far.

Politico’s Daniel Lippman reported, per two people familiar with the matter, that the donation is for a section of the library planned on the U.S.-Japan alliance, specifically the economic and strategic cooperation between the two countries.

As the report notes, SoftBank — one of the world’s largest investors in artificial intelligence and a major backer of OpenAI — has maintained close ties with Trump throughout both of his administrations. Founder and chair Masayoshi Son has appeared alongside the president multiple times at the White House, and even promised to invest $100 billion into U.S. companies during his second term in 2024.

The company also actively lobbies the federal government on AI and technology policy issues, according to recent disclosure filings cited by Politico.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/japanese-company-pours-50-million-into-trump-presidential-library/ar-AA23QS3o

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Japanese company pours $50 million into Trump Presidential Library (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 2 hrs ago OP
Nothing will be build but instead Javaman 1 hr ago #1
Perhaps they can have a video game kiosk cloudbase 1 hr ago #2
Blatant corruption pfitz59 40 min ago #3
They should just donate $50 million worth of books FakeNoose 32 min ago #4

Javaman

(65,984 posts)
1. Nothing will be build but instead
Sat May 23, 2026, 08:53 AM
1 hr ago

It’ll be renovated McDonald’s with all the orange pedos favorite burgers listed as his best achievements.

And the 50 million? in the orange pedos pocket of course

cloudbase

(6,319 posts)
2. Perhaps they can have a video game kiosk
Sat May 23, 2026, 09:15 AM
1 hr ago

that challenges visitors to beat Trump's high score on his cognitive tests.

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