A handful of Maryland business owners donated more than $2 million to the Trump administration’s 2025 inauguration, a Baltimore Sun analysis of federal records shows. Most Marylanders whose

President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee collected a staggering $239 million for the festivities surrounding his swearing-in this year — with some of the nation’s wealthiest people and biggest companies writing large checks as they sought to ingratiate themselves with the Republican ahead of his return to the White House.

The staggering amount, disclosed in a filing with the Federal Election Commission, was driven by corporate America’s eagerness to win the president’s favor.