$特朗普晚餐

周一清晨，自由世界的领导人有一个信息要传达。

Early Monday morning, the leader of the free world had a message to convey. Not about the economic turmoil from tariffs, any one of the skirmishes playing out abroad, or a surprise shake-up in his White House staff. Instead, President Donald Trump turned to Truth Social to post about something called the “$TRUMP GALA DINNER,” with a link to gettrumpmemes.com.

周一清晨，自由世界的领导人有一个信息要传达。与关税的经济动荡无关，任何一场小规模冲突在国外播放，或者他的白宫工作人员感到惊讶。取而代之的是，唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统转向“真理”（Truth Social Social）发表有关“ $ trump Gala晚餐”的信息，并与getTrumpMemes.com链接。

A visit to the latter website paints a slightly fuller picture: Buy as many tokens as you can of Trump’s personal cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, and you could be invited to a private event later this month at the Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, D.C. There, you will get the unique opportunity to meet with the president and “learn about the future of Crypto.” The gala looks very much like a thinly veiled gambit to pump up the price of $TRUMP, a so-called memecoin that is mostly owned by Trump-backed entities. Funnel the greatest amount of money to the president of the United States, and you could win some face time with the big man himself.

访问后一个网站的画面略微更全面：购买尽可能多的令牌，特朗普的个人加密货币，特朗普$，您可能会被邀请在本月晚些时候在华盛顿特区特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部，那里的特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部参加私人活动，您将获得与总统见面的独特机会，并“了解未来的Crypto of Crypto”。晚会看起来非常像一个薄薄的gambit，可以提高特朗普的价格，$ trump是一个所谓的成员，主要由特朗普支持的实体拥有。向美国总统筹集了最大的钱，您可以与大个子本人赢得一些面对面的时间。

In 2021, Trump called bitcoin a “scam.” Now he seems to understand exactly what crypto can do for him personally: namely, make Trump and his family very, very rich. The $TRUMP gala is one part of a constellation of Trump-affiliated crypto efforts that includes Trump Digital Trading Card NFTs, a crypto company called World Liberty Financial, and a bitcoin-mining firm. According to an analysis by Bloomberg, the Trump family has already banked nearly $1 billion from these projects. Long before he descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower a decade ago, Trump’s public image was rooted in his business prowess. But compared with his real-estate projects or The Apprentice, crypto is already turning into his most successful venture yet.

2021年，特朗普称比特币为“骗局”。现在，他似乎完全了解加密个人可以为他个人做什么：即，使特朗普和他的家人非常非常富有。特朗普的盛会是特朗普附属加密货币努力的一部分，其中包括特朗普数字交易卡NFTS，一家名为World Liberty Financial的加密货币公司和一家比特币矿业公司。根据彭博社的一项分析，特朗普家族已经从这些项目中赚了近10亿美元。十年前，在他在特朗普大厦的特朗普大厦下降之前很久，特朗普的公开形象就植根于他的商业能力。但是，与他的房地产项目或学徒相比，加密货币已经变成了他迄今为止最成功的冒险。

Trump perhaps wouldn’t be president at all if it wasn’t for crypto. During the 2024 campaign, the industry was among his campaign’s biggest donors. That money flowed in from both crypto corporations and individual donors, such as the bitcoin billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. (The identical twins gave $1 million each in bitcoin to the Trump campaign, but had to be refunded because they exceeded the legal donation limit.) In exchange, Trump promised the imperiled industry a fresh start after four years of a Biden-sanctioned crypto crackdown. Last summer, as the keynote speaker at the annual bitcoin conference, Trump promised that if elected, he would make America the “crypto capital of the planet.” The crypto industry is now getting its money’s worth. Consider the crypto firm Ripple, which spent four years squaring off against Biden’s regulators in federal courtrooms and donated $4.9 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Yesterday, the new administration dropped the government’s case, as the White House has effectively stopped enforcing crypto rules.

如果不是加密货币，特朗普也许根本不会担任总统。在2024年的竞选期间，该行业是他竞选最大的捐助者之一。这笔钱来自加密公司和个别捐助者，例如比特币亿万富翁泰勒和卡梅隆·温克尔沃斯。 （相同的双胞胎在特朗普竞选活动中分别给了比特币100万美元，但由于超出了法律捐款的限制，因此必须退款。）作为交换，特朗普承诺在经过四年的Biden批准的加密货币攻击之后，该行业崭新的开始。去年夏天，作为年度比特币会议的主题演讲者，特朗普承诺，如果当选，他将使美国成为“地球的加密之都”。加密货币行业现在正在获得其资金的价值。考虑一下加密货币公司Ripple，该公司在联邦法庭上花费了四年的时间与拜登的监管机构，并向特朗普的就职典礼捐赠了490万美元。昨天，新政府放弃了政府的案件，因为白宫有效地停止了执行加密规则。

Trump is still tapping crypto magnates for money. On Monday, he attended a super PAC’s “Crypto & AI Innovators” fundraiser, for which donors shelled out $1.5 million to get in the door. But for Trump, crypto has quickly become about more than soliciting campaign donations and rewarding supporters. In September, Trump announced the launch of World Liberty Financial, a decentralized-finance company to be managed by his sons Eric and Don Jr. and a couple of young entrepreneurs. (One previously ran a company called Date Hotter Girls, while the other is the son of Steve Witkoff, a longtime Trump ally serving as special envoy to the Middle East.) Then, in January, just before Inauguration Day, he launched $TRUMP. Like all memecoins, it has no underlying business fundamentals or links to real-world assets—the point is to just quickly capitalize on a viral trend, conjuring value out of practically nothing. This proved extremely lucrative almost immediately: $TRUMP initially spiked in value before crashing back down, at one point accounting for almost 90 percent of the president’s net worth. (There’s also an official $MELANIA coin, if that’s more your thing.)

特朗普仍在攻击加密富豪大亨。周一，他参加了超级PAC的“加密货币和AI创新者”筹款活动，为此，捐助者为此付出了150万美元的投入。但是对于特朗普来说，加密货币迅速​​不仅仅是征求竞选捐赠和奖励支持者。 9月，特朗普宣布推出世界自由金融公司，这是一家分散的金融公司，由他的儿子埃里克（Eric）和小唐（Don Jr.）和几个年轻企业家管理。 （一家以前经营着一家名为Date Hot Tir Girls的公司，而另一家公司是史蒂夫·维科夫（Steve Witkoff）的儿子，史蒂夫·维特科夫（Steve Witkoff）是一个长期的特朗普盟友，担任中东特别使节。）然后，在一月份，就在就职典礼那天之前，他推出了$ trump。像所有成员一样，它没有潜在的业务基本面或与现实世界资产的链接 - 关键是要快速利用病毒趋势，几乎没有任何东西来触发价值。事实证明，这几乎立即被证明是非常有利可图的：$特朗普最初在崩溃之前就价值飙升，占总统净资产的近90％。 （如果这是您的事情，还有一个官方的$ Melania硬币。）

With crypto, Trump has found an unnervingly effective way to transmute the clout and power of the nation’s highest office into cold, hard cash. Last week, World Liberty Financial announced that its cryptocurrency, USD1, would facilitate an Abu Dhabi investment firm’s $2 billion stake in the crypto exchange Binance. Eric and Don Jr. are also on the crypto press circuit, with plans to speak at the 2025 bitcoin conference later this month. Some of Trump’s decisions as president, such as creating a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve,” may also function to inflate his crypto riches, in the sense that a rising tide lifts all boats؛ promoting crypto as part of the national interest can only support the idea that these coins are worth buying into.

借助加密货币，特朗普找到了一种令人难以置信的有效方法，可以将美国最高职位的影响力和权力转移到寒冷，硬现金中。上周，世界自由金融（World Liberty Financial）宣布，其加密货币（USD1）将促进阿布扎比投资公司在加密货币交易所二手股票中的20亿美元股份。埃里克（Eric）和小唐（Don Jr.）也在加密新闻巡回赛上，计划在本月晚些时候在2025年比特币会议上发言。特朗普作为总统的一些决定，例如建立“战略比特币储备”，也可能起作用他的加密货币财富，从某种意义上说，涨潮会升起所有的船只؛促进加密作为国家利益的一部分只能支持这些硬币值得购买的想法。

The White House insists that there is nothing to see here. “His assets are in a trust managed by his children, and

白宫坚持认为这里没有什么可见的。 “他的资产是由他的孩子管理的信托，