President Donald Trumpâs 2025 inaugural committee enjoyed big donations from several travel and tourism industry titans â much more than in the two prior inaugurations, a Skift analysis of federal records indicates.
United Airlines and Delta Air Lines gave Trumpâs 2025 inaugural $1 million each after having contributed nothing to Trumpâs 2017 inauguration.
The seven-figure contributions also represent a major boost from what the two leading air carriers gave President Joe Bidenâs 2021 inaugural committee: $228,223 from United and zero from Delta. Neither airline responded to requests for comment.
Hilton Worldwide, whose hotel brands include the Waldorf Astoria, Embassy Suites, Hampton and all Hilton-branded properties, made an in-kind contribution of $282,897.04 to Trumpâs 2025 inaugural committee for what the company told Skift was an effort to âassist with the Presidential Inaugural Committeeâs activities taking place at Washington, DC-area Hilton hotels.â
But Hilton made no donations at all to either Trumpâs 2017 inaugural or Bidenâs 2021 inaugural, according to records maintained by the Federal Elec