Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus, who donated millions to Donald Trump, has died.
The billionaire died at the age of 95, according to an internal memo, obtained by cnn.
The details surrounding his death are currently unknown.
Marcus, who had a net worth of $7.4 billion, founded The Home Depot in 1978 with Arthur Blank. The hardware store would have a value of $400 billion and more than 2,300 stores, CNN reported.
The hardware store’s founder was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1929, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, and was the youngest of four children.
In recent years, Marcus was known for being a mega-donor to Republican efforts, including to former President Donald Trump.
The retail heavyweight told New York Post last year that Joe Biden was a ‘fool’ and ‘the most divisive president we’ve ever seen’, while blaming him for many of America’s problems.
Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus, who donated millions to Donald Trump, has died at the age of 95.
In recent years, Marcus was known for being a mega-donor to Republican efforts, including to former President Donald Trump.
He also backed claims that Biden, 81, the oldest president in US history, was mentally unfit to hold high office and even claimed he could be a “puppet” spokesperson for others within the Democratic Party. .
“Someone is feeding him like a puppet,” the businessman told the Post before the president dropped out of the race, adding that if Biden were elected again, the United States would become “a Third World country.”
FEC data shows the 95-year-old billionaire has invested $64 million in Republican campaigns over the years, including Trump’s run for the White House in 2016, but admitted he was “struggling” to back many of his former favorites politicians.
He often appeared on right-wing shows, such as Fox News, and actively showed his support for the 45th president.
Marcus has also donated millions to the campaigns of John McCain and Ron DeSantis, according to CNN.
In 2022, he criticized Americans for being too socialist, saying that “nobody works” and “nobody gives a damn.”
‘Just give it to me. Send me money. “I don’t want to work. I’m too lazy, too fat, too stupid,” he scoffed. ‘Woke people have taken over the world.
“We used to have freedom of speech here. “We don’t have it,” he said at the time.
The Rutgers University graduate met his co-founder while working at Handy Dan Home Improvement in California.
Home Depot would emerge after the two were fired from the Golden State store and came up with a plan to create a larger hardware store, according to CNN.
They started their company in Atlanta, Georgia, where Marcus and his wife Billi were well-known philanthropists.
He was CEO of the company until 1997 and president until 2002. He later retired.
He and his wife also founded the Marcus Autism Center at Emory University and donated to various Jewish and medical organizations over the years, including a $250 million grant to help open the Georgia Aquarium in 2005, according to CNN.