Donald Trump is charging as much as $5 million to meet with him at Mar-a-Lago, a report claimed Tuesday.
That fat fee gets you one-on-one time with the president, sources with knowledge of the meetings told Wired. The magazine added the price tag has not slowed demand, calling the nearly million-a-minute sit-downs a “hot ticket” in the business world.
Where those millions are actually going and what they will be used for is not clear, however.
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Trump has also hosted group dinners at his Florida estate where it costs $1 million a person to get through the door. An invitation for a so-called candlelight dinner Trump spoke at Saturday shed some light on how the money may be moving around.
“You are invited to a candlelight dinner featuring special guest President Donald J. Trump,” the invitation reads, according to Wired. “Additional details provided upon RSVP. RSVPs will be accommodated on a first come, first serve basis. Space is very limited. $1,000,000 per person.”
That note was reportedly below a header that read “MAGA INC.,” which is the name of a super PAC that backed Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. RSVPs were to be made out to Meredith O’Rourke, a prominent Republican fundraiser, and to Abby Mathis, who is finance coordinator at MAGA Inc.
The invitation made clear Trump was “appearing at this event only as a featured speaker, and is not asking for funds or donations.” If that is the case, his super PAC appears the obvious receiver of the hefty entry fees—though that is not confirmed.
The Trump administration and MAGA Inc. did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Trump will be termed out of office in January 2029—at 82 years old—and, barring a change to the constitution, would have no personal need for campaign cash. Political science experts have noted it is unusual for a president to host pricey fundraising dinners for a super PAC in the early weeks of their second term.
“I can’t recall a sitting president in the first weeks of his administration asking for millions of dollars in fundraising,” Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, told Wired. “The concern is less about fundraising and more about access and influence … People hoping to get favorable treatment view it in their interest to donate money to Trump.”
One source with knowledge of the dinners told Wired the fees are “all going to the library,” referencing the eventual construction of a presidential library somewhere.
