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.

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.

President Donald Trump raised a record-shattering $239 million for his inauguration festivities, buoyed by generous donations from large companies. The haul more than doubled his 2017 inauguration record of $107 million. Around 140 different people and companies gave the committee at least a million dollars.