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Big Tech is ‘donating’ to Trump’s ‘nonprofits’

The Verge · Tina Nguyen · last updated

I was recently riding a Lime scooter around downtown DC (don’t hate the player) and zipped across the intersection of 16th Street and I Street NW when I zoomed by the Motion Picture Association’s office building. Except now it had the logo of America 250 over the door. The last time I’d run into this nonprofit, it was at the 2025 Bitcoin Conference, where it was shaking down the crypto industry to pay for President Donald Trump’s controversial military parade.

Apparently, in the subsequent months, America250 — which is, to reiterate, a nonprofit established by Congress to plan next year’s nationwide celebra …

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