It should be named the $TRUMPET. For how it's promoted.
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For the full story from promoters: https://gettrumpmemes.com/dinner
There's more -
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It gets a tweet -
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It gets media coverage. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/trump-crypto-coin-dinner-00306707
It gets critiqued:
Wall Street investors scoffed at it. Democrats have railed against it. But cryptocurrency traders can’t get enough of President Donald Trump’s memecoin.
In the two weeks since plans for an exclusive dinner with the $TRUMP memecoin’s namesake were unveiled, a rush of interest has boosted the once-flagging collectible crypto token and reignited a firestorm on Capitol Hill.
The memecoin — whose logo is an image of Trump raising his fist — has jumped nearly 20 percent in value as traders have raced to snatch it up, hoping to score an invite to the May 22 dinner at the president’s golf club in Virginia. The surge of trading has generated more than $1 million in fees for the Trump family and its partners, who have now collected more than $320 million since the memecoin debuted in January, according to blockchain analytics company Chainalysis.
The event is drawing criticism from Democrats — who call it a pay-to-play scheme — [No! Not that. Not from the nation's President] and even from some Republicans. Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York introduced a bill on Tuesday that would bar senior executive branch officials, including the president, from offering or endorsing financial products like memecoins. The bill was cosponsored by 13 lawmakers.
“The sitting president appears to be selling personal cryptocurrency while in office, granting access to people who buy it, and thereby enriching his business and his family. It’s gobsmacking,” Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia told POLITICO in a statement. “I’d like to hear one Republican senator defend it. Any self-respecting Congress would demand an accounting of everyone trading this coin who has any business before the government.”
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NOTE: You can have dinner with me at the house in Minnesota if you pay me a million dollars; no purchase necessary. We can pick up something at Culvers. Or eat in at their Anoka site on West Main Street. Buy into the offer and it is promised your name will be posted on DEVELOPERS ARE CRABGRASS. - Offer limited to first 25 payees -
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