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Eric Lipton

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Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

Yeah, that's right.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

Yes. Yet another in the crazy roadmap of things that we've been trying to examine is that there are two crypto companies that the Trump family has started recently. The second one is selling a meme coin, which is something like a collectible. It's like a Beanie Baby or a baseball card and you buy it and it has a certain value.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

Yes. Yet another in the crazy roadmap of things that we've been trying to examine is that there are two crypto companies that the Trump family has started recently. The second one is selling a meme coin, which is something like a collectible. It's like a Beanie Baby or a baseball card and you buy it and it has a certain value.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

Yes. Yet another in the crazy roadmap of things that we've been trying to examine is that there are two crypto companies that the Trump family has started recently. The second one is selling a meme coin, which is something like a collectible. It's like a Beanie Baby or a baseball card and you buy it and it has a certain value.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And so the day before Trump was inaugurated, he announced that he was issuing a new meme coin, dollar sign Trump. And overnight, it became one of the most valuable meme coins in the world. And of course, in this case, yet again, the Trump family owns most of the stockpile of the meme coins that are being issued there. And it also is going to make transaction fees off of it.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And so the day before Trump was inaugurated, he announced that he was issuing a new meme coin, dollar sign Trump. And overnight, it became one of the most valuable meme coins in the world. And of course, in this case, yet again, the Trump family owns most of the stockpile of the meme coins that are being issued there. And it also is going to make transaction fees off of it.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And so the day before Trump was inaugurated, he announced that he was issuing a new meme coin, dollar sign Trump. And overnight, it became one of the most valuable meme coins in the world. And of course, in this case, yet again, the Trump family owns most of the stockpile of the meme coins that are being issued there. And it also is going to make transaction fees off of it.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

So every time that meme coin is bought and sold, it gets a small chunk of money. And now in order to continue to drive up the price of that meme coin, President Trump announced recently they're going to have effectively an auction where whoever owns the most of these meme coin tokens will have the privilege of having dinner with President Trump at his golf club in Virginia later this month in May.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

So every time that meme coin is bought and sold, it gets a small chunk of money. And now in order to continue to drive up the price of that meme coin, President Trump announced recently they're going to have effectively an auction where whoever owns the most of these meme coin tokens will have the privilege of having dinner with President Trump at his golf club in Virginia later this month in May.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

So every time that meme coin is bought and sold, it gets a small chunk of money. And now in order to continue to drive up the price of that meme coin, President Trump announced recently they're going to have effectively an auction where whoever owns the most of these meme coin tokens will have the privilege of having dinner with President Trump at his golf club in Virginia later this month in May.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And the people who – among the 220 that – the people at the top of that list will actually also get to make a visit to the White House.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And the people who – among the 220 that – the people at the top of that list will actually also get to make a visit to the White House.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And the people who – among the 220 that – the people at the top of that list will actually also get to make a visit to the White House.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

So, I mean, again, it's like this is how – I can't even like imagine that the president of the United States and his family are doing an auction that is now playing out as we sit here to be able to buy more of their crypto token and to bring money to the Trump family in exchange for – getting access to the president. So it's for his personal benefit. It's not a campaign contribution.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

So, I mean, again, it's like this is how – I can't even like imagine that the president of the United States and his family are doing an auction that is now playing out as we sit here to be able to buy more of their crypto token and to bring money to the Trump family in exchange for – getting access to the president. So it's for his personal benefit. It's not a campaign contribution.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

So, I mean, again, it's like this is how – I can't even like imagine that the president of the United States and his family are doing an auction that is now playing out as we sit here to be able to buy more of their crypto token and to bring money to the Trump family in exchange for – getting access to the president. So it's for his personal benefit. It's not a campaign contribution.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

It's to personally enrich the family of the president. That's happening right now. In addition to all the other things that we've spoken about, that's playing out with the meme coin.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

It's to personally enrich the family of the president. That's happening right now. In addition to all the other things that we've spoken about, that's playing out with the meme coin.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

It's to personally enrich the family of the president. That's happening right now. In addition to all the other things that we've spoken about, that's playing out with the meme coin.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

Yeah. Well, that's I mean, you know, if anything, you know, Donald Trump is an incredible marketer and brand builder and and he's marketing and brand building. And he's been doing that for decades now. And that's what he's doing here again.