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Lingering WH gaslight won't set the Lincoln Bedroom ablaze to hide the Trump MemeCoin Dinner [1]
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Date: 2025-05-22
More grifting using the People’s House. The residual fumes from yesterday’s South African replay of Rourke’s Drift won’t get to places on the privatized White House VIP tour following the exclusive dinner at “Trump National” golf course.
Trump’s daily “blunders” aren’t random. They’re part of a deliberate strategy to dominate the news cycle by triggering predictable outrage.
Understand his strategy
Recognizing the pattern is the first step. Once you see it, you can choose not to feed it.
The goal of the Trump administration isn’t just distraction — it’s disempowerment.
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x President Trump is hosting an exclusive dinner tonight for the largest investors in the $TRUMP meme coin, putting the murky world of cryptocurrencies on a collision course with White House ethics.
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On May 13, 2025, The New York Times reported that GD Culture Group, a China-linked Nasdaq firm with no revenue, announced plans to buy up to $300M of the Trump-affiliated $TRUMP memecoin. The funding comes via a stock sale to a British Virgin Islands entity, sparking ethics concern.
Critics of the president’s decision to auction off a private dinner via his Trump-branded crypto token were worried about the stunt for a few reasons. At the top of the list: the potential for foreigners to buy access to the sitting president, something the US Constitution explicitly prohibits.
Those concerns, it seems, were well founded. The vast majority of the top holders of Trump’s memecoin appear to be based overseas, including the top investor — a Chinese-born crypto mogul who, until recently, was facing civil fraud charges in the United States.
Billed by organizers as the “most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the world,” Thursday’s gala is set to take place at the president’s private Trump National Golf Club, just outside of Washington, DC, according to an email sent to guests and reviewed by Fortune.
The guests are expected to include President Donald Trump himself and 220 of the top $TRUMP buyers, who collectively dumped an estimated $148 million over three weeks into the memecoin — a type of crypto product that is functionally useless as a currency or investment vehicle, and one that serious investors avoid because of their tendency to collapse in value. Initially, the $TRUMP website said the top 25 holders would be eligible for a private White House tour — the kind of access typically reserved for heads of state. The website later dropped the reference to the White House but still promised an unspecified “special VIP tour.”
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