Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
Two American auto giants — Ford and General Motors — will each donate $1 million and provide a fleet of vehicles for President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
The Michigan conglomerates join a growing list of mega-corporations that are pitching in for Trump‘s highly-anticipated second inauguration.
Other corporate donors so far include Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, Robinhood, Uber, and Bank of America, the Detroit News reported.
In 2017, Ford donated $250,000 to Trump’s first inauguration, while General Motors contributed $500,000, according to OpenSecrets.
Both automakers donated the same amounts to President Joe Biden‘s 2021 inauguration.
The top overall donor for Trump’s 2017 inauguration was billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson, who gave $5 million, according to OpenSecrets. Adelson was the late CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp.
This election cycle, his widow, Miriam Adelson, donated a staggering $100 million to Trump’s re-election campaign.
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