Donors to Demolition: the Destruction of the People's House

Out of the enormous number of outrages, provocations, and recurring disasters that have characterized the Regime since January, one that seems like it might have struck a deeper nerve that surely the Occupier would have thought, is the destruction of the East Wing of the People’s House. The People’s House. Let that sink in, deeply. 

I thought I was going to be doing a lot more research and having to do some serious searching to get a list of donors who have agreed to fund or are funding the Trump-Epstein Ballroom. There seem to be a number of drawings of what it’s supposed to look like; but not real architectural scheme or bid has been presented. The Chief Occupier started with a proposed figure of $200 million that has recently inflated to $300 million. Who the hell knows what polyp in his ass that came out of?

The point isn’t even that he wants to inflict his wannabe/faux-Versailles aesthetic on the country further. It really isn’t. It’s one more of the man-baby and his coterie’s move of demonstrating that they can shit on we the people to their hearts’ content (or contents, despite how empty their hearts appear to be). 

I will list the donors at the bottom and to a friend’s Substack that in addition to having more granular information (addresses, and so forth, which I’ll try to add here later), has been compiling an ongoing and ever-growing list of companies to boycott who actively support the Regime and it is about this that I want to chat about, both in relation to the destruction of the East Wing (which really might as well be the whole White House) and to the wider overall direction the country is heading.

What boycotts do

We’ve recently seen what boycotts do. They negatively impact the bottom line of companies that insist on carrying on business as usual when the stakes have all to do with our quality of life or more directly, our lives themselves. Target’s stock tanked and its profits shrank almost immediately when it turned its back on supporting Pride. More recently, Jimmy Kimmel's reinstatement was a direct result of cancellations of subscriptions cancelled and viewers lost. We could go back further in history across the world, but the point is simply that that which attacks a corporation’s bottom line can bring that corporation to heel. 

In the past, it might have been for specific issues;  environmental, health, safety, and so on; but I would argue that what’s at stake right now is the continued existence of the United States as a democracy. We are dealing with a dictator; not a wannabe - I’ll give him that - but a full-on dictator. He knows it, his cabinet knows it, the judiciary and the legislature know it, and by numbers, they are fine with it. This has been said so many times, but no one is coming to save the country, which is implicitly, innately, us. We the People are having to rely on ourselves and leverage what we can to push back. Do we have the will to do so? I hope so.

In the meantime, whether intentional or not (it’s so hard to tell with the Regime), they’ve kicked a hornet’s nest. We can’t give into dismay or despondency. After No Kings, what did the communications team for Trump do? They released an AI slop video of him wearing a crown in a cockpit, dropping a payload of shit, literal shit on the people below. The pettiness and juvenile nature of the video aside, obviously it’s intended to send the same message as the destruction of the White House and the cavalier matter-of-factness that while the Epstein Ballroom won’t be built with the people’s taxes, as we see more corporate giants pay-to-play so that it becomes, eventually, the Rich People’s House.

In many cases, the corporate entities listed are easily boycotted. I understand that for some, completely boycotting everyone on the list may not be feasible (for me, it comes down to Meta and Google; I have friends on Facebook who rely on the platform to communicate with the rest of the world and until I can convince everyone I know on it to follow me on my blogs or contact me via Signal, or adopt other approaches, I’m going to maintain that service and as for Google, here I am on blogger, which admittedly, after all these years, I am loathe to end, but I am looking at other platforms); not so, the rest. I ditched Amazon sometime ago and haven’t looked back and I don’t patronize anyone else on there. Apple ends this weekend (I have one thing left to watch that I paid for and after that, I’m free!); for the record, all my Apple tech is secondhand, no profits went to Tim Cook and company.

People ask if it’s difficult not using Amazon anymore; of all of them, that’s the main question and no, it really isn’t. Whole Foods is stupid, anyway, and lost its soul when they got bought, and there is nothing I need, ever, that I can’t get by simply going to a store and buying it. I don’t consider that an inconvenience; I consider it an opportunity to engage with real people, and use as an excuse to get out and about.

That’s the issue, though, isn’t it? Convenience. We need our gratification instantly. We need our food delivered to us, our clothes, our dry goods, our entertainment. This is just plain sad. Unless you’re incapacitated, I see no reason for spending money for delivery. I know that most Americans live too far from the stores they patronize because nothing says America like, “I don’t want to drive there.” You don’t want to walk there, you don’t want to take public transportation. You kind of suck. And frankly, America, it would do you good to do a little walking.

Palantir

While some of these are straightforward because they do offer goods or services the purchase  of which if terminated, would be felt at some point, what  to do with organizations like Palantir? Well, here’s where Duck Duck Go’s search assistant came in handy: "To boycott Palantir, you can stop using their products and services, avoid investing in the company, and participate in campaigns that raise awareness about their practices, particularly regarding their contracts with government agencies like ICE. Joining local activist groups or online movements that oppose Palantir's involvement in surveillance and data privacy issues can also amplify your efforts.” Look at that! Just what I was going to say. Thanks DDG!

We can go back years to when the push to protest Peter Thiel and his company got serious, and it remains ongoing, but this is the point. While it’s easy to decouple from more product and public-facing service corporations,  how do we fight tech giants which already wield power behind the scenes? 

I find the best place to start is with Mijente: https://mijente.net/blog/5-things-you-should-know-to-fight-against-palantir/. Palantir is more dangerous than Google or Apple (though, for all we know, they are likely in bed helping with developing more robust surveillance tech) and frankly, representative of a longterm battle beyond boycotting. This battle may be more all-consuming than we might wish, but we are the targets and I suggest also joining the Electronic Frontier Foundation for a couple of reasons.

One, they have plenty of tools and instruction on how to fight digital surveillance. Two, though, they are active in bringing suits against companies like Palantir. So consider donating the money you spend on a yearly Amazon subscription to eff.org.

(RE)Sources

The main source/resource I want to share is the Notes from the Apocalypse Substack. “Psychopete” is performing an essential service in creating and expanding a general boycott list, as well as a more specific post on the contractors and donors on the East Wing demolition. This is a critical resource: Pete's listed a number of details and actions that you can do. I would rather you follow the link than copy and post wholesale;  please, avail yourself of this resource!

Also, regarding my switch to Substack, myself;  it seems likely. I am getting to the point, too, where the research I do for any given any piece takes time and just a few subscriptions for those who can pay, would go some way to helping expand my capabilities to do more. I don’t know if this is likely to happen anytime soon, but certainly, I’ll let people know.

In the meantime, let’s get out there and put a tourniquet on our bleeding republic.

Resources

Electronic Frontier Foundation: eff.org

Mijente: mijente.net

Notes from the Apocalypse: https://psychopete1.substack.com

Sources

Batista, Chris. “5 Things You Should Know to Fight Against Palantir". Mijente. June 25, https://mijente.net/blog/5-things-you-should-know-to-fight-against-palantir/

Notes from the Apocalypse. “A Ballroom for Ghosts”. October 21, 2025. https://psychopete1.substack.com/p/a-ballroom-for-ghosts?r=5j616r

Ortiz, Andi. “Apple, Amazon Among Donors for New White House Ballroom as Demolition Photos Show Destruction of Movie Theater”. The Wrap. October 23, 2025. https://www.thewrap.com/white-house-ballroom-donor-list-apple-amazon/

Schulze, et al. “What we know about the donors funding the White House ballroom”. ABC News Go. October 22, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donors-funding-white-house-ballroom/story?id=126778550

The Donors and Demolishers

Adelson Family Foundation

Altria Group

Amazon

Apple

Betty Wold Johnson Foundation

Booz Allen Hamilton

Stefan E. Brodie

Caterpillar Inc.

Charles & Marissa Cascarilla

Coinbase

Comcast Corp.

Edward & Shari Glazer

Google

Hard Rock International

Harold Hamm

HP Inc.

Lockheed Martin

Benjamin Leon Jr.

Kelly Loeffler

The Lutnick Family

J. Pepe & Emilia Fanjul

Meta

Micron Technology 

Microsoft

NextEra Energy

Palantir Technologies

Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation

Ripple

Reynolds American

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Konstantin Sokolov

Jeff Sprecher

T-Mobile

Tether America

Paolo Tiramani

Union Pacific Railroad

Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss