Trump inauguration pulls in $200 million in donations, doubling previous record
SalonPresident-elect Donald Trump's second inauguration has raised over $150 million so far, plus another $50 million in post-election PAC cash, soaring far beyond the previous record high of $107 million in funds set by his first inauguration in 2017. Sources told the New York Times that the president-elect’s fundraising has already surged past his 2017 inauguration sum with weeks to go, promising an opulent ceremony atop the steps his supporters stormed four years earlier. “It is a time-honored D.C. tradition that corporations are enthusiastically embracing this cycle in all manners, largely because they were on the sidelines during previous Trump cycles,” lobbyist and former Trump fundraiser David Tamasi told the Times. Earlier this week, Trump lamented the commemoration of late President Jimmy Carter and fumed over the fact that flags on federal buildings will be at half-mast during his inauguration.