People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Guests are paying millions of dollars to dine and conscionable with President Donald Trump astatine peculiar events held astatine his Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach, Florida.

Business leaders tin unafraid a one-on-one gathering with the president astatine Mar-a-Lago for $5,000,000, according to sources with nonstop cognition of the meetings. At a alleged Candlelight Dinner held arsenic precocious arsenic this past Saturday, prospective Mar-a-Lago guests were asked to walk $1,000,000 to reserve a seat, according to an invitation obtained by WIRED.

“You are invited to a candlelight meal featuring peculiar impermanent President Donald J. Trump,” the invitation reads, nether a “MAGA INC.” header. MAGA Inc, oregon Make America Great Again Inc, is simply a ace PAC that supported Trump’s 2024 statesmanlike campaign. “Additional details provided upon RSVP. RSVPs volition beryllium accommodated connected a archetypal come, archetypal service basis. Space is precise limited. $1,000,000 per person.”

Invitees were asked to RSVP to Meredith O’Rourke, who served arsenic nationalist concern manager and elder advisor astatine Donald J. Trump for President 2024, a run committee, and the proprietor of The O’Rourke Group, which O’Rourke describes connected her LinkedIn leafage arsenic a “Republican governmental fundraiser.” Invitees were besides directed to email Abby Mathis, the concern coordinator astatine MAGA Inc. Mathis was antecedently a unit adjunct for legislator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama—a erstwhile Auburn University shot coach—and besides served arsenic an intern astatine the White House bureau of the unit secretary, according to LegiStorm, a probe enactment that posts accusation connected politicians and their staffers.

O’Rourke and Mathis did not instantly respond to a petition for comment, nor did the White House.

The invitation specifically states that “Donald J. Trump is appearing astatine this lawsuit lone arsenic a featured speaker, and is not asking for funds oregon donations.” The lawsuit occurred astatine 7:00pm connected March 1 and was listed connected the president’s authoritative schedule arsenic the “MAGA INC. Candlelight Finance Dinner.” This is the lone lawsuit by that sanction connected Trump’s authoritative docket since helium took office.

Michael Solakiewicz, a pro-Trump integer creator, posted photographs of the lawsuit connected Instagram. WIRED has besides viewed photographs and videos of Elon Musk with his lad X astatine Mar-a-Lago the pursuing time during a charity event hosted by a radical called Wine Women & Shoes that besides featured Trump.

“It’s everyone other who missed the boat,” a Trumpworld root with cognition of the meetings says, referring to latecomers to the Trump agenda. The root pointed specifically to the tech sector, wherever executives person scrambled to amusement fealty to the caller administration. While X proprietor Elon Musk notably spent astatine slightest $260 million to elite Trump, different tech companies and executives collectively donated millions to Trump’s inauguration fund: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Amazon enforcement president Jeff Bezos, Meta, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Uber, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman each donated $1,000,000 each.

The $5 cardinal one-on-one meetings person go a “hot ticket” successful the concern community, says a root acquainted with them.