Dining with Trump because you acted considerably in his memecoin: how the US President Crypto embraced

Morten Christensen (39) from Nijmegen joins a dinner with President Donald Trump on his golf club near Washington on Thursday evening. He is one of 220 winners of a match buying Trump coins that the president proclaimed at the end of April. Anyone who acted the most fanatic in Trumps in the few weeks after that (crypto coins without intrinsic value) and who also kept possession of for a while received an exclusive invitation.

Christensen saw the game as a kind of computer game. « A Funny Side Quest to compleat”, Says the experienced crypto speculant, who speaks in Jargon in which gaming, poker and investing merge seamlessly. Just as seamlessly as with Trump, business and making money overlap.

The event at the golf club at the Potomac will be a kind of ‘networking drink’, Christensen expects. With good food and Trump the entrepreneur who squeezes all the tables and so taps contacts. Perhaps he announces a new crypto project and the guests can immediately participate.

The US president has recently been converted in terms of digital money and now the most powerful proponent of Crypto. The day before his inauguration on January 20, Trump launched two memecoins, crypto coins linked to an online joke, Under his own name ($ Trump) and that of the First Lady ($ Melania). When the price of this collapsed after a short -lived hype, he issued the competition to reduce the value and the number of the transactions.

Of the 220 winners, the Top-25 will also receive an ‘ultra-exclusive VIP reception’ with Trump and a tour of the White House. Access to the president is for sale for foreign investors who, according to American rules, are not allowed to donate to political campaigns.

About who will come on Thursday evening and with which intentions have been speculating since then. Just like what the Trump yields, which he is not transparent about. On the published list of winners, only the Aliass are included under which they act. A few have confirmed his or her participation, including the Chinese cryptomiljerardaire Justin Sun. He recently came in the news by buying a work of art from a stuck banana for $ 6.2 million and then eating it. Since the end of 2024, he has also been an important investor in the new crypto company of the Trump family: World Liberty Financial. The moment Sun invested $ 75 million, there was a investigation against him at the American stock market watchdog for suspicions of price manipulation. That was stopped after Trump came to power.

On the published list of winners of Trumps cryptow competition, only the Aliass are included under which they act

Between the donation of an aircraft by Qatar, the conflict of interest of the international projects of Trumps real estate company and the dismantling of supervision and prosecution of corruption in the US, the exploitation of a memecoin is probably not Trumps outrageous self -enrichment. His critics see full of bewilderment how the president unashamedly opened the door of the White House for those with the highest bid, to be dealt with in digital coins that the president still despised during his first term.

‘Drunk Karaokemomentje’

The Dutch Christensen finished in 188 and is open about his participation. A few days after the game closed and he received an invitation, he wrote on x that he had come through the safety screening. « They apparently see that one drunk karaokemomentje in Vegas. »

He does not care politically, he says in a hem conversation from Mexico, where he has been living since the Coronapandemie. If Kamala Harris had organized something similar, he would have also participated because of the game element. By speculating smartly, his place in the rankings cost him only around $ 1,200. Plus a ticket to Washington, three hotel stays and a new tuxedo, because the old one still hangs with his mother in the Netherlands. It is expected at half past five in the snow -white golf club building with a large terrace, ten excessive chandeliers and gold -colored chairs around round tables. It can be rented for weddings on other days.

Christensen has been in the crypto since 2013, when he started using digital coins for online poker. He also participates in World Liberty Financial, the company of Trumps Zonen Don Jr., Eric and Barron, together with, among others, the son of Steve Witkoff, the project developer who is now Trumps envoy for the Middle East. It must be a platform through which people can borrow and lend cryptocurrency. President Trump’s involvement in particular means that Christensen estimates it as an investment that will pay off.

Trumps sons raised more than $ 550 million in recent months for crypto platform World Liberty Financial

Opaque tangle

Exactly how much the Trump family is left with their crypto projects cannot yet be calculated and is constantly changing. The best substantiated sums now exceed two billion dollars (1.76 billion euros).

Trump put his companies prior to his presidency in a trust run by his children. He has promised to keep their distance from daily management, but still earns it.

The Crypto empire of the family is an opaque tangle of entities and investors, whereby it is not always clear who gets which percentage. Crypto race increases do not just translate into growing capacity. For this, coins must first be cashed in, what the creators of the $ Trump have not done yet. Every transaction with the coins, however, immediately yields the Trump empire: part of the transaction costs that users pay. So far at least hundreds of millions. The president therefore benefits by hiding the trade in it.

Trumps embrace digital coins is recently. In the field of immigration, import duties and paints of alliances, he is a more radical variant of the president he was eight years ago in 2025. But in terms of digital money, it has been drastically turned. In 2019 he called crypto coins « baked air » for drug traders where he was « no fan ». Two years later it was « scam » against the dollar. But in 2024, during his third presidential campaign and after advances of the ever -richer cryptolobby, he turned. According to him, the United States should not only become leading in crypto. If it is scam, he would also like to earn it himself, it seems.

Attention and credibility

The dinner in which Christensen sits is only one of many examples of a conflict of interest. Trump promotes a favorable investment climate for cryptobeleggers through a special crypto-task force, with presidential decrees and by penting the decisiveness of supervisors. Trump has strategic places in his government filled with people who are pocked and trapped in the crypto industry. All this drives the rates. Crypto owners benefit from this. According to son Eric Trump, his father himself also owns « a lot » bitcoins, he said recently during a cryptoconference in Dubai.

In those circumstances, it takes no effort to find investors for World Liberty Financial in those circumstances. They raised more than $ 550 million in recent months, especially outside America. The New York Times revealed That several crypto entrepreneurs were directly approached by partners of the sons. They received a proposal for an unfavorable deal, which they would still have to consider, because the involvement of the Trump family would guarantee attention and credibility.

The White House takes off every question about Trumps interests with the announcement that Trump has placed his possessions remotely and that there are therefore no question of a conflict of interest. In addition, during his first term, Trumps company had an ethical code not to enter into new projects with foreign investors and that that code has now been deleted. In addition to cryptodeals, the Trump Organization has also concluded all kinds of contracts to install resorts, golf courses and apartment complexes in the Middle East.

Cynical games

The hand clap is viewed with mixed feelings within the crypto world. Trump is clearly good for the rates, but not necessarily for the image of Crypto, and his own companies smell like distortion of competition. American crypto entrepreneurs who donated to Trumps campaign because of possible favorable legislation and the investment climate had not expected that the Republican itself would enter the cryptocasino. The Crypto projects of the Trump family confirm the image of hyper -capitalist cynical games with virtual flash capital and that also evokes political resistance.

In the meantime, the Democratic opposition and activists argue steps to stop Trumps self -enrichment. In Trumps first term they wounded over a hotel that he owned in Washington, where all kinds of foreign guests booked rooms and drank expensive cocktails to get into the grace. That seems child’s play compared to what he is doing now. But the Democrats do not have a majority in the House of Representatives or the Senate to conduct an official investigation in the congress.

Moreover, what Trump is probably not punishable. Although the president may not accept gifts that are a direct reward (Quid Pro quo). But a case with regard to his hotel in Washington did not lead anything in his first term. Moreover, the Supreme Court gave the President even more far -reaching immunity for persecution than he already had last year. The only place where Democrats can advocate Trumps corruption is at the court of public opinion.

Steamed out of nothing

In the meantime, both Republicans and Democrats think that it is highly necessary to create clear legal frameworks for digital assets in the US. Many other countries and the EU already have it and the sector is screaming. It is one of the few topics that both parties largely agree on. Despite the risk that it will benefit Trump himself, almost all Republicans and sixteen Democrats in the Senate voted this week for rules that give so -called stablecoins a role in the financial system.

A stablecoin is a crypto coin with a stable value. For example, a user pays one dollar in collateral in exchange for one cryptodollar with which he can pay in crypto. The Trump Organization recently released its own stablecoin via World Liberty Financial.

Almost from scratch this USD1 has been steamed into one of the most used stablecoins in the world. Thanks in part to a fund from the United Arab Emirates. That country did the day after Eric Trump in Abu Dhabi was a striking transaction of 2 billion dollars with this Trump coin.

Morten Christensen is impressed by the speed with which the Stablecoin conquers market share. He is curious what else the Trumps will do and thinks aloud about a smart strategy for them during the video call to earn from their coins. They can become much richer with speculating on price changes of their own currency. Whether that is allowed? He stays still for a moment. « There are fixed rules for this at a company like Apple, but probably not with Memecoins. »

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