Another Trump meme coin contest promises an ‘exclusive’ dinner with the president

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The firm behind President Donald Trump’s crypto keepsake known as a meme coin is promoting yet another contest for investors to secure an invitation to “the most exclusive dinner in the world” — a sequel to the May 2025 gala that experts at the time called a textbook pay-to-play scandal.

The meme coin’s website on Thursday offered “an evening with 3 Legends and President Donald J. Trump” at his private club in Washington , DC , for the top 185 holders of the $TRUMP coin. The top 29 purchasers of the crypto keepsake will be invited to a VIP reception “with YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT,” and the top four will receive an 18-karat Trump-branded gold watch.

The contest began Wednesday and runs through November 12, according to the site.

At the same time, the site also states that “no attendees will be granted a private meet & greet with the President” and that “no gifts will be accepted.” The event is scheduled for November 22.

Early Thursday afternoon, the GetTrumpMemes.co site appeared to crash.

It’s the latest episode of Trump and his businesses seemingly profiting off his presidency. Financial disclosures have shown him raking in more than a billion dollars off his crypto ventures and making thousands of stock trades , including in companies that are directly affected by his policies. The White House has repeatedly said Trump is not involved in his investment accounts and that his portfolio “is independently managed by third-party financial institutions.”

And it’s not the first meme coin event the president has held. The top 220 holders of the $TRUMP meme coin were invited to a black-tie dinner at Trump’s golf club outside Washington, DC, in May 2025, with those in the room having contributed millions in investment in his crypto token. The 25 biggest investors also got access to a small VIP reception with the president.

The White House referred questions about the event to the hosts. The companies behind the event, CIC Digital and Fight Fight Fight LLC, are affiliates of the Trump Organization, which didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Trump has made more than $1 billion from his crypto portfolio, most of which he launched shortly before retaking office in January 2025. Investors in those products have been less fortunate: A report from the watchdog Public Citizen recently tallied investors had racked up $4.7 billion in paper losses on Trump crypto assets managed by the president’s adult sons.

Memecoins are particularly risky investments because they have no intrinsic value and are prone to sudden collapses. The US Securities and Exchange Commission last year wrote that memecoins have a failure rate “exceeding 90% for new tokens.”

Trump launched his memecoin shortly before his inauguration in 2025. Its value initially surged to $70 but quickly fell. It currently trades around $2.

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为美国总统唐纳德·特朗普打造的加密货币纪念品（被称为“模因币”）背后的公司，正在推广另一项竞赛，投资者可以通过竞赛获得“世界上最独特的晚宴”的邀请函——这是 2025 年 5 月那场盛会的续集，当时的专家称那场盛会是教科书式的付费游戏丑闻。

周四，该网络迷因币的网站宣布，将为持有$TRUMP币数量最多的185位用户提供“与三位传奇人物和唐纳德·J·特朗普总统共度良宵”的机会，地点是特朗普总统位于华盛顿特区的私人俱乐部。此外，持有该加密货币纪念品数量最多的29位用户将受邀参加VIP招待会，与“您最喜爱的总统”见面；排名前四位的用户还将获得一块18K特朗普品牌金表。

据该网站称，比赛于周三开始，一直持续到11月12日。

与此同时，该网站还声明“所有与会者均不会获得与总统的私人会面机会”，并且“不接受任何礼物”。活动定于11月22日举行。

周四下午早些时候，GetTrumpMemes.co 网站似乎崩溃了。

这是特朗普及其商业帝国似乎利用其总统职位牟利的最新例证。财务披露显示，他从加密货币投资中获利超过10亿美元，并进行了数千笔股票交易，其中包括一些直接受其政策影响的公司。白宫一再表示，特朗普本人并未参与其投资账户，其投资组合“由第三方金融机构独立管理”。

这并非总统首次举办“梗币”活动。2025年5月，$TRUMP 梗币的前220名持有者受邀前往特朗普位于华盛顿特区郊外的高尔夫俱乐部参加一场盛大的晚宴，这些宾客都已为他的加密代币投入了数百万美元。其中，持有量最大的25位投资者还获得了与总统会面的VIP小型招待会的资格。

白宫将有关此次活动的问题转给了主办方。此次活动的承办公司CIC Digital和Fight Fight Fight LLC均为特朗普集团的关联公司，特朗普集团尚未对此置评。

以下12项举措展现了特朗普第二任期的肆无忌惮——例如那些用纳税人钱买单的广告。

特朗普通过其加密货币投资组合赚取了超过 10 亿美元，其中大部分是在他 2025 年 1 月再次就职前不久推出的。这些产品的投资者就没有那么幸运了：监督机构“公众公民”（Public Citizen）最近的一份报告统计显示，投资者在由总统成年儿子管理的特朗普加密资产上累计了 47 亿美元的账面损失。

模因币是风险极高的投资，因为它们没有内在价值，而且极易突然崩盘。美国证券交易委员会去年曾指出，模因币的失败率“新发行代币超过90%”。

特朗普在2025年就职典礼前不久推出了他的“模因币”（memecoin）。该币价值最初飙升至70美元，但很快下跌。目前交易价格约为2美元。