Filing: OpenAI President Greg Brockman was the biggest donor to Trump's super PAC in H2 2025, donating $25M; Crypto.com operator Foris DAX donated $20M
President Donald Trump's super political action committee raised $102 million in the second half of 2025, fueled by eight-figure donations …
BloombergBill Allison
Context & Ripple Effects
The filing extends an existing pattern of crypto-sector money flowing to Trump-aligned political vehicles: earlier disclosures recorded more than $26 million in first-half crypto contributions to MAGA Inc. It also places a senior OpenAI executive alongside a sector that had already built sizable midterm-oriented PAC reserves.
Later coverage examined Brockman’s broader political giving and its stated connection to an AI mission, making this filing a concrete marker of how personally financed political activity is becoming part of the public posture of frontier-AI leadership.
First-order effects
Trump’s super PAC gains a large new pool of disclosed funding for political activity, with Brockman and Crypto.com operator Foris DAX accounting for substantial portions of the reported second-half total.
Brockman becomes the period’s most prominent disclosed donor to the PAC, while Foris DAX’s contribution deepens Crypto.com’s visible participation in Trump-aligned political finance.
Second-order effects
The disclosure raises the visibility of political spending by AI executives and crypto platforms, creating a clearer public benchmark against which peers’ political engagement may be assessed.
If such donations continue, policy-reliant technology sectors may increasingly treat political-finance capacity as a strategic complement to lobbying and public advocacy.
The overlap of frontier-AI leadership and crypto donors in the same political network could intensify scrutiny of how concentrated private wealth shapes technology-policy agendas, although a filing alone does not establish policy outcomes.
The trend: Technology leaders and crypto companies are making high-value political giving a more visible part of their strategy around policy-sensitive markets.
Looking back on AI progress in 2025: people are increasingly weighing how AI should fit into our lives and how vital it is for the United States to lead in its development. Being pro-AI does not mean being anti-regulation. It means being thoughtful — crafting policies that secure
Oh wow - OpenAI's Greg Brockman was the single largest donor to Trump's super PAC over the past 6 months. I knew OpenAI/Brockman were trying to flex their muscles politically to block all meaningful AI regulations, didn't realize they had literally become Trump's largest donor
Imagine if, during the Manhattan Project, the biggest lobby was 100% opposed to any restriction at all of how nuclear technology would be used. Maybe we'd have cheap abundant energy, but maybe we'd all be dead. Wouldn't you like to know the odds? OpenAI doesn't want you to know.
I wonder if this is related to Trump's recent shift from not caring about AI preemption to heavily pushing it. The OpenAI-Andreessen super PAC can spook rank-and-file members of Congress, but donating to Trump's super PAC would build a stronger relationship w/ Trump, specifically
Trump's mega donors are funding a superPAC against me. Turns out I undersold it: it's literally Trump's LARGEST mega donor. @gdb is both one of the biggest funders of “Leading the Future” superPAC and, at least during the second half of 2025, Trump's largest donor.
Many major Democrats are still in wait-and-see mode when it comes to AI. With yet more proof that these folks aren't their friends and aren't lining their pockets, that calculus will keep looking more and more braindead.