With all that money that's pouring into TSF's inauguration fund,

[Sogo]

it's too bad he still won't be able to get any other talent than the likes of Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock, or The Village People to perform....

[Attilatheblond]

1. The 'donations' are not intended for actually making the inauguration spectacular

They are pay to play transactions.

[allegorical oracle]

7. Think it's both. He wants to create more of a "coronation" affair over several days, and

stuff his baggy pant pockets with moolah.

[magicarpet]

2. The plan is,...

...... without any congressional oversite being, that both Houses are in ReThug's hands, not investigations will be done.

Djt intends to balloon the total take on the inaugural funds. Spend a small portion coming in on the innauguration. Then pocket millions upon millions left over of the innauguration funds into his personal accounts.

[EndlessWire]

3. LOL!

Oh, I don't know. How much does a military parade cost? He always wanted that. You know, whose is bigger? Still plenty left over for his personal accounts.

[magicarpet]

4. Djt grabbed the money in 2017 to stuff in his pockets.

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NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's family business and his 2017 U.S. presidential inaugural committee will pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit by Washington, D.C.'s attorney general claiming that the committee funneled excessive amounts of charitable funds to the Trump International Hotel.
The payment is nearly three-quarters of the $1.03 million that Attorney General Karl Racine said the nonprofit inaugural committee "dramatically" overpaid to rent event space at the hotel, including for a private party for Trump's adult children on the night Trump became president.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-organization-settles-lawsuit-over-dc-hotel-payments-tied-inauguration-2022-05-03/

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October 18, 2017

What Happened to the Surplus Funds From Trump’s Inauguration?
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Oct. 18, 2017

What Happened to the Surplus Funds From Trump’s Inauguration?

What Should Be a Significant Surplus Remains Unaccounted For

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nine months after the inauguration, President Donald Trump’s 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) has provided no accounting of the amount of surplus funds left over and very little explanation as to how the committee has managed this surplus. Today several civic groups and academics sent a letter to Trump and his inaugural committee asking what happened to the leftover funds and calling for them to be given to the U.S. Treasury.

The letter is signed by American Family Voices, Campaign for Accountability, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Common Cause, Democracy 21, End Citizens United, Friends of the Earth, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Prof. James A. Thurber, Norman J. Ornstein and Public Citizen.

Typically, inaugural committees begin dispensing surplus funds three or four months after the inauguration and close up shop shortly after.

“That is not the case with Trump’s 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee,” wrote the groups in their letter to the president. “Trump’s Inaugural Committee raised an all-time record of $107 million, well over twice the amount raised by [President Barack] Obama’s 2009 Inaugural Committee, and in all likelihood spent considerably less for Trump’s inauguration than was spent on either of Obama’s inaugurations.”

https://www.citizen.org/news/what-happened-to-the-surplus-funds-from-trumps-inauguration/

[mopinko]

5. he got away w siphoning off half the money last time. y wd he change?

[2naSalit]

6. As mentioned above...

Very little might end up paying for the inauguration, it's pay to play offerings. Think of it as a kind of corporate tithing.

[RussBLib]

8. So how much $$$ did Biden take in in 2021?

I'm sure it was far from $0, just don't remember any reporting about it.