特朗普通過為他的標誌性特朗普硬幣加密貨幣的最大消費者舉辦私人晚餐來獎勵加密貨幣買家

當特朗普總統的新關稅開始限制貨運流量時，卡車運輸物流公司貨運技術的負責人使用了非正統的方法

President Trump’s new tariffs began slowing freight traffic so drastically that the leader of trucking logistics firm Freight Technologies used an unorthodox method to try and get the president’s attention.

特朗普總統的新關稅開始大大放緩貨運流量，以至於運輸物流公司貨運技術的負責人使用一種非正統的方法來引起總統的注意。

The California-based firm purchased $2 million worth of Trump Coin, the signature cryptocurrency backed by the president.

這家總部位於加利福尼亞的公司購買了價值200萬美元的特朗普硬幣，這是總統支持的標誌性加密貨幣。

The president and his family launched Trump Coin shortly before he took office in January. Anyone can buy the cryptocurrency. An analytics firm says Mr. Trump’s family and other backers have collected more than $300 million in transaction fees.

總統和他的家人在一月份上任前不久就發動了硬幣。任何人都可以購買加密貨幣。一家分析公司表示，特朗普的家人和其他支持者收取了超過3億美元的交易費用。

Donald Quinby, Freight Technologies’ chief financial officer, said the purchase seemed like “really the best platform for us to make a splash, to make some noise.”

Freight Technologies首席財務官Donald Quinby表示，這次購買似乎是“對於我們發揮作用，發出一些噪音的最佳平台。”

“With the Trump meme token, this was just an opportunity to really advocate for free and fair trade,” Quinby said. “I’m sure he likes to follow who’s purchasing his coins.”

奎比說：“有了特朗普的模因令牌，這只是一個真正倡導自由和公平貿易的機會。” “我確定他喜歡跟隨誰在購買硬幣。”

In April, the Trump family announced an “intimate private dinner” with the president at Mr. Trump’s golf course in Virginia to reward the biggest buyers of Trump Coin, or $TRUMP. A leaderboard was created so buyers could compete with one another. Buyers eventually spent $140 million trying to secure access to the event, according to data analytics firm Inca Digital.

四月份，特朗普一家在弗吉尼亞州特朗普先生的高爾夫球場上與總統宣布了“親密的私人晚餐”，以獎勵特朗普硬幣的最大買家，即特朗普。創建了排行榜，以便買家可以相互競爭。根據數據分析公司Inca Digital的數據，買家最終花費了1.4億美元，試圖確保訪問該活動。

Some of the 220 leading buyers of $TRUMP received tickets to attend the dinner. Mr. Trump will also host a smaller reception for the token’s top 25 holders. The guests are beneficiaries of a new opportunity to gain access and potential influence in a city with a long history of blending money and politics, experts said.

特朗普的220個領先的買家中有一些收到了參加晚宴的門票。特朗普先生還將為代幣的前25名持有人舉辦較小的招待會。專家說，客人是一個新機會的受益人，可以在一個悠久的融合金錢和政治歷史的城市獲得進入和潛在影響。

“This is really unprecedented,” said Jessica Tillipman, a George Washington University law professor. “This appears to be a president that could be potentially benefiting privately from something that he’s doing out in the open.”

喬治華盛頓大學法學教授傑西卡·達里普曼（Jessica Tillipman）說：“這確實是前所未有的。” “這似乎是一名總統，可能會從他公開做的事情中私下受益。”

The White House pushed back hard on the notion that the gala dinner or the president’s role in promoting the cryptocurrency crossed any ethical lines. Administration officials said they had not approved an initial plan suggesting top buyers of the meme coin product would receive a White House tour.

白宮努力推翻了盛大晚宴或總統在促進加密貨幣方面的作用的觀念。政府官員表示，他們尚未批准最初的計劃，建議模因硬幣產品的頂級買家將獲得白宮之旅。

“This is a personal dinner that the president is attending on his personal time,” a White House official told CBS News in a statement. “The White House has absolutely nothing to do with it.”

一位白宮官員在一份聲明中對CBS News說：“這是總統正在參加個人時間的個人晚餐。” “白宮與它完全無關。”

Meme coins are a type of cryptocurrency whose value is largely driven by social media buzz. They are not usually used in transactions, and are known for erratic price shifts. $TRUMP peaked at around $75 shortly after launch and plummeted to under $8 by April 2025, but soared in value after the dinner with Mr. Trump was announced.

模因硬幣是一種加密貨幣，其價值在很大程度上是由社交媒體嗡嗡聲驅動的。它們通常不用於交易，並且以不穩定的價格變化而聞名。 $特朗普在推出後不久以75美元的價格達到頂峰，到2025年4月下降到8美元，但在與特朗普先生的晚餐後飆升。

Among the attendees of Thursday’s dinner is Justin Sun, a Chinese-born crypto billionaire and the largest holder of Trump Coin. Sun has a net worth of $8.5 billion, according to Forbes, and is best known for creating the Tron blockchain. He was also the buyer who paid $6.2 million for a banana duct-taped to a wall by artist Maurizio Cattelan. Sun promptly ate the fruit.

週四晚宴的與會者中有賈斯汀·孫（Justin Sun），他是中國出生的加密貨幣億萬富翁，也是特朗普硬幣的最大持有人。根據福布斯的說法，Sun的淨資產為85億美元，以創建Tron區塊鏈而聞名。他還是買家，他為藝術家毛里齊奧·卡特蘭（Maurizio Cattelan）支付了620萬美元的香蕉管道。太陽迅速吃了水果。

Sun was sued for fraud by the Biden administration for allegedly “fraudulently manipulating the secondary market” and paying celebrities to promote a crypto token his company created “without disclosing their compensation.” Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission paused the lawsuit as part of a broader Trump administration shift toward easing crypto enforcement.

拜登政府因涉嫌“欺詐性地操縱二級市場”而欺詐欺詐，並支付名人來促進他的公司創建的加密代幣“而沒有透露他們的賠償”。今年早些時候，美國證券交易委員會（Securities and Exchange Commission）暫停了訴訟，這是特朗普政府朝著緩解加密執法的更廣泛政府的一部分。

Sun also said his firm has invested tens of millions in the Trump-linked World Liberty Financial. But the anonymous nature of cryptocurrency allows Sun, and other foreign buyers like him, to court access to power with little transparency.

孫還說，他的公司已經在特朗普與世界自由金融上投資了數千萬。但是，加密貨幣的匿名性質使太陽和其他像他這樣的外國買家幾乎沒有透明度來獲得權力。

“It’s almost like the perfect kind of opaque structure for any type of foreign government or, you know, non-U.S. citizens who wanted to try to seek favor, curry favor with this particular administration,” Tillipman said.

Tillipman說：“這幾乎就像任何類型的外國政府的完美不透明結構一樣，或者，您知道想要尋求青睞的非美國公民，對這一特殊的政府咖哩的青睞。”

Experts raise concerns about conflicts of interest

專家引起了人們對利益衝突的關注

Tillipman compared the Trump family’s foray into cryptocurrency to Hunter Biden’s art sales during his father’s administration.

Tillipman將特朗普家族涉足加密貨幣的嘗試與亨特·拜登（Hunter Biden）在父親的政府期間的藝術銷售進行了比較。

“The argument was that [purchasers of Hunter Biden’s artwork] could use it to influence” then-President Joe Biden, she said.

她說：“論點是（亨特·拜登（Hunter Biden）的藝術品的購買者）可以用它來影響它。”

Like cryptocurrency, “a lot of these types of transactions are by nature opaque because you don't know who's purchasing it. You don't know who the buyer is,” Tillipman said. She noted that in effect, the Biden administration tried to distance the president from the transactions by saying information about the buyers and transactions would be kept secret by the gallery owner.

就像加密貨幣一樣，“許多類型的交易本質上都是不透明的，因為您不知道誰在購買它。您不知道買家是誰，” Tillipman說。她指出，實際上，拜登政府試圖通過說有關買家和交易的信息來使總統與交易距離距離，畫廊所有者將保密。

Nonetheless, she said “there were a lot of legitimate concerns associated with that particular dealing, as there was fear that it could be a back door to President Biden” through a family member.

儘管如此，她說：“與該特定交易有關，有很多合理的擔憂，因為人們擔心這可能是拜登總統的後門”。

“The difference here is just the order of magnitude and the involvement of the president himself,” Tillipman said. Hunter Biden’s art netted him about $1.5 million

Tillipman說：“這裡的區別僅僅是總統本人的參與。”亨特·拜登（Hunter Biden）的藝術使他賺了大約150萬美元