Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun wins “exclusive invitation” to private gala dinner with Donald Trump promising the top 220 $TRUMP meme coin holders

A week after Donald Trump announced an “‘exclusive invitation’” promising the top 220 $TRUMP crypto meme coin holders a “private gala dinner with the President”

A week after Donald Trump announced an “‘exclusive invitation’” promising the top 220 $TRUMP crypto meme coin holders a “private gala dinner with the President” with the top 25 holders getting an “‘ultra-exclusive private VIP reception'”, government watchdog Accountable.US released an analysis showing the top-ranked holder on the $TRUMP “leaderboard” could likely be Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun, whose federal fraud case was mysteriously paused in February 2025.

The analysis, titled "How A Trump Family Crypto Scheme Could Open The Door To Foreign Interference In The 2024 Election," also explained how the campaign finance implications of the $TRUMP crypto venture are "rapidly becoming a time bomb for the Trump campaign and his allies in Congress."

The report comes after Trump announced the dinner invitation in a Sunday post on his social media platform, Truth Social.

According to Accountable.US, Sun, the founder of the TRON cryptocurrency, could be the top-ranked $TRUMP coin holder with 15.9 billion tokens, valued at $17.9 million as of Tuesday morning.

Now, Justin Sun has personally confirmed Accountable.US’s suspicion, tweeting at exactly midnight Tuesday morning: “Honored to support @POTUS and grateful for the invitation from @GetTrumpMemes to attend President Trump’s Gala Dinner as his TOP fan As the top holder of $TRUMP, I’m excited to connect with everyone, talk crypto, and discuss the future of our industry.”

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Honored to support @POTUS and grateful for the invitation from @GetTrumpMemes to attend President Trump’s Gala Dinner as his TOP fan 🤩

As the top holder of $TRUMP, I’m excited to connect with everyone, talk crypto, and discuss the future of our industry at the dinner. I’m personally inviting…

— Justin Sun (@justinSSun) October 17, 2023

Additionally on Twitter/X, Sun wrote “All in USA” along with a reposted thread boasting about his newfound political influence, which translated to: “Business dealings are just the appetizer, and the right to speak is the main course. At the TOKEN2049 event in Dubai, Sun Ge and Trump’s son Eric Trump had a dialogue on the same stage to talk about the future of encryption. This is no longer a typical activity of encryption projects, but a meeting point of the boundary between politics and business.” The post also translated to, “From investment layout to political core, from circle resources to national dialogue, a clear path emerges: Sun Ge is not watching the opportunities in the United States, but personally writing into the main plot of this American on-chain finance!”

Accountable.US has called the dinner competition the most nakedly corrupt self-enrichment scheme in U.S. presidential history that could easily lead to the administration selling out the public interest to the highest bidder with secret agendas—including foreign actors, greedy corporate interests and even criminals elements—that could also compromise our national security.

“The potential for corrupting foreign influence through the Trump family’s rapidly sprawling and ballooning crypto ventures was obvious, and now we’re seeing that corruption unfold in real time,” said Accountable.US Executive Director Tony Carrk.

“A Chinese billionaire who has already seen a Trump SEC fraud case against him paused after dumping $75 million into one Trump crypto venture is now openly bragging of being the #1 investor in another one – winning him the opportunity to personally rub elbows with Donald Trump in private while publicly celebrating working with the President’s son to become a crypto finance leader in the U.S. This dubious situation perfectly sums up why this $TRUMP coin competition was always going to become a magnet for corrupting foreign influence, unprecedented self-dealing and next level swampiness. The question is: when are President Trump’s allies in Congress going to start asking tough questions about what Sun and all the other likely foreign competitors are getting in return from this administration, and what is going to cost working people and our national security?”