Japanese megacorp SoftBank donates $50M to Trump's presidential library

[Eugene]

Source: Politico

Japanese megacorp SoftBank donates $50M to Trump’s presidential library

It is one of the largest publicly disclosed gifts to Trump’s presidential library.

By Daniel Lippman
05/22/2026 06:00 PM EDT

Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group recently donated $50 million to the Trump presidential library and foundation, two people familiar with the matter said, as companies continue to curry favor with the Trump administration.

The donation from SoftBank is one of the largest known gifts to the fund. The Trump library is in the process of raising hundreds of millions of dollars for the project, and donations from media and tech organizations including ABC News, Paramount, X and Meta as part of lawsuit settlements are also other sources of funds.

The donation is intended to support a focus at the library on the strength of the U.S.-Japanese relationship and the longstanding alliance between the two countries, particularly on strategic and economic issues, according to the two people, who were granted anonymity to discuss the not-yet-public donation.

SoftBank, which pledged in 2024 to invest $100 billion in American companies during Trump’s term, is one of the largest AI investors in the world and also has its own controlling stakes in tech companies, including a semiconductor chip designer.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/softbank-trump-library-donation-00934285

[wcmagumba]

1. Dementia Donny can barely speak or read, WTF will even be in that "library"...pedo toys?

[newdeal2]

4. A gallery of softcore porn, presented by SoftBank

All of Trump's favorites.

[JBTaurus83]

2. The fascists aren't just in the US

Freak all around the world are bowing to worship.

[JT45242]

3. Emoluments and bribes...

The corruption is so blatant.

Spineless enablers who should have impeached and banned him post Jan 6

[bob4460]

5. That should be illegal

Any donations given by foreign corporation to a president is just a setup for corruption.

[Diraven]

6. I thought all his library money disappeared

Like someone completely drained the accounts and no one knows who took it. I guess this money will disappear soon too.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. buying influence

[IcyPeas]

8. Library with a hotel you mean...

.... The next day Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums” and that the building was “most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby.”
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The decision to make Trump’s presidential library a hotel raises several questions, including about how it could legally operate as a nonprofit.

Every president’s library thus far has had an associated nonprofit, which funds the development and then assists with events and fundraising after the building is transferred to the federal government to be operated by the National Archives. All presidential library foundations are subject to the Internal Revenue Code which prohibits the foundation from being used to benefit “any person having a personal and private interest in the organizations’ activities.”

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-trump-organization-is-developing-trumps-presidential-library-maybe-as-a-trump-hotel/

[Princess Turandot]

9. The current rendering..

it's so grotesque, it's hilarious. Considering the erosion that's already occurring under buildings along the Florida coast, it's a curious location. But the state is providing the land, so...

[wcmagumba]

10. That's truly hideous looking...imo...

[oasis]

11. Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog also donated.

💩💩💩💩💩

[Initech]

12. Fuck you Softbank!

[Cha]

13. I absolutely hate those fucking Nazi PEDO

pusher Assholes. Fuck them and their fukcing Billions for ruining the planet.

Ya Dumb Fucks! Blow up your faces.