Grifters gotta grift. " White House solicits corporate sponsors for its Easter Egg Roll event."

[Botany]

The White House is for the first time soliciting corporate sponsors for the annual Easter Egg Roll event to be held Monday on the South Lawn. This comes as billionaire tech executives have faced growing criticism for cozying up to the Trump administration.

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Listed among the sponsors were companies including YouTube, Amazon, and Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta.

Tech company executives, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerburg of Meta and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have been criticized for their firms' donations to Trumps inauguration fund and for taking meetings with Trump and his allies.

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CNN first reported earlier this month that the White House had begun courting sponsors for the typically apolitical family gathering, at between $75,000 to $200,000. The White House says the money raised will go to the White House Historical Association, a nonprofit. (Or Krasnov’s bank account )

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The event, which the White House said will use eggs "donated by American egg farmers," also comes as egg prices in the United States have reached record highs due to an outbreak of avian flu that has forced farmers to kill off millions of egg-laying hens.

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Funny I thought high egg prices were President Biden’s fault. Because I almost never heard about
Avian Influenza during the election. Biden had inflation under control by the summer of ‘24 but the
loss of > 120 million chickens made higher egg prices a given. F. T. M. Fuck the media and that
includes NPR.

[senseandsensibility]

1. CNN seemed to be very excited about this

All smiles about the corporate sponsors as if it was coolest thing ever.

[FirstLight]

3. gross

I was gonna ask about this since I hadn't seen anything since he opened up the idea of sponsors... Wondered who would be the BIG players?

Ugh... disgusting. I hope some of you will post some photos tomorrow of the "banners" with all the AD Logos...

[C_U_L8R]

2. Even Trump and Musk can't afford eggs

Not that they ever put their own money towards a cause (that doesn't line their pockets even further)

[badhair77]

4. Why would they use real eggs for such a large event.

Give them to a food bank. And if each plastic egg has an ad on it that is beyond their normal tackiness.

[Irish_Dem]

5. The billionaires are proud of their bribes to Trump.

[DoBW]

6. I'm my own sponsor

for my eye roll event happening now