Calling them “pioneers”, President Donald Trump praised the main investors in his cryptocurrency meme currency in an exclusive black tie dinner on Thursday when the protesters outside the event sang and showed signs that exploited the gala as a game payment event.
Two hundred twenty cryptocurrency merchants, including many abroad, pumped dozens of millions of dollars in Trump memes currency to obtain income from the gala Through a contest That gave invitations to the main investors, with at least some of the funds that flow directly to the Trump family coffers.
Among the views that arrived for the event at Trump’s private golf club on the outskirts of NBAs were Lamar Odom and “keep up with the Kardashians” Fame, the controversial magnate of the cryptocurrencies Justin Sun, and Kendall Davis, an investor of cryptoc to advocate for the things that are done in the crypto space
The 220 main headlines of Trump’s meme coin, a type of digital currency that is often based on an internet meme, collectively spent more than $ 140 million for a seat on the table on Thursday, according to an analysis of the Nansen data analysis firm. According to CNBC reports from Blockchain’s analysis firm Chain data58 cryptographic wallets had made millions of Trump coins investments as of May 6, while approximately 764,000 cryptographic wallets had lost money.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that the gala was not a White House event and that the president attended his personal capacity. The White House did not publish a list of the event attendees.
The protesters outside the event, which included Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. – Song slogans and showed signs that said “stop Trump’s cryptographic corruption” and “the United States is not on sale” when attendees arrived at the scene.
Trump, addressing dinner attendees, said he always puts the country “far ahead of the business” and added: “You can’t say that about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden,” according to publications on social networks.
President Donald Trump raises a fist when he leaves the White House to attend a private dinner at the Trump National Golf Club, in Washington, on May 22, 2025.
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On the subject of cryptocurrency, Trump attacked the previous administration and promoted the support of his own administration to cryptography.
“The Biden administration pursued the innovative cryptographic, and we bring them back to the US. Where they belong. They were fleeing. They were leaving our country,” Trump said in a social media video published by an assistant.
Many of the guests at dinner were investors abroad, and several of them told ABC News that they had flown to the country only for the opportunity to see the president of the United States.
An assistant, who asked him not to be identified, told ABC News that he flew from Taiwan for dinner.
“The second day, Trump made the announcement about dinner, I bought a lot of tokens,” he said. The assistant said he had nothing specific that he wanted to know about Trump, but that he wanted to attend dinner because “I only think that having the opportunity to reach an event like this is very rare.”
Another assistant, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Alex, told ABC News that he is an investment banker from Moscow, Russia, who currently resides in Cancun.
He said he did not understand much about what Trump spoke at dinner due to the language barrier, but that he is a Trump defender and that he was happy to see him.
The Bryce Paul assistant, in a video he published on social networks, compared the Trump meme coins gala with the moment “Iwo Jima” of Crypto, where attendees would be “raising the flags, behind the enemy lines, here in the DC swamp”
“I’m just one of the 220 people who are invited,” said Paul. “There are no media, there is no recording, there is no plus -it is really some of the most influential figures in cryptography, politics and, of course, man himself.”
