特朗普通过为他的标志性特朗普硬币加密货币的最大消费者举办私人晚餐来奖励加密货币买家

当特朗普总统的新关税开始限制货运流量时，卡车运输物流公司货运技术的负责人使用了非正统的方法

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.

特朗普总统的新关税开始大大放缓货运流量，以至于运输物流公司货运技术的负责人使用一种非正统的方法来引起总统的注意。

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

这家总部位于加利福尼亚的公司购买了价值200万美元的特朗普硬币，这是总统支持的标志性加密货币。

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.

总统和他的家人在一月份上任前不久就发动了硬币。任何人都可以购买加密货币。一家分析公司表示，特朗普的家人和其他支持者收取了超过3亿美元的交易费用。

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首席财务官Donald Quinby表示，这次购买似乎是“对于我们发挥作用，发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.”

奎比说：“有了特朗普的模因令牌，这只是一个真正倡导自由和公平贸易的机会。” “我确定他喜欢跟随谁在购买硬币。”

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亚州特朗普先生的高尔夫球场上与总统宣布了“亲密的私人晚餐”，以奖励特朗普硬币的最大买家，即特朗普。创建了排行榜，以便买家可以相互竞争。根据数据分析公司Inca Digital的数据，买家最终花费了1.4亿美元，试图确保访问该活动。

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个领先的买家中有一些收到了参加晚宴的门票。特朗普先生还将为代币的前25名持有人举办较小的招待会。专家说，客人是一个新机会的受益人，可以在一个悠久的融合金钱和政治历史的城市获得进入和潜在影响。

“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.”

乔治华盛顿大学法学教授杰西卡·达里普曼（Jessica Tillipman）说：“这确实是前所未有的。” “这似乎是一名总统，可能会从他公开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.

白宫努力推翻了盛大晚宴或总统在促进加密货币方面的作用的观念。政府官员表示，他们尚未批准最初的计划，建议模因硬币产品的顶级买家将获得白宫之旅。

“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.”

一位白宫官员在一份声明中对CBS News说：“这是总统正在参加个人时间的个人晚餐。” “白宫与它完全无关。”

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.

模因硬币是一种加密货币，其价值在很大程度上是由社交媒体嗡嗡声驱动的。它们通常不用于交易，并且以不稳定的价格变化而闻名。 $特朗普在推出后不久以75美元的价格达到顶峰，到2025年4月下降到8美元，但在与特朗普先生的晚餐后飙升。

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.

周四晚宴的与会者中有贾斯汀·孙（Justin Sun），他是中国出生的加密货币亿万富翁，也是特朗普硬币的最大持有人。根据福布斯的说法，Sun的净资产为85亿美元，以创建Tron区块链而闻名。他还是买家，他为艺术家毛里齐奥·卡特兰（Maurizio Cattelan）支付了620万美元的香蕉管道。太阳迅速吃了水果。

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“欺诈性地操纵二级市场”而欺诈欺诈，并支付名人来促进他的公司创建的加密代币“而没有透露他们的赔偿”。今年早些时候，美国证券交易委员会（Securities and Exchange Commission）暂停了诉讼，这是特朗普政府朝着缓解加密执法的更广泛政府的一部分。

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.

孙还说，他的公司已经在特朗普与世界自由金融上投资了数千万。但是，加密货币的匿名性质使太阳和其他像他这样的外国买家几乎没有透明度来获得权力。

“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说：“这几乎就像任何类型的外国政府的完美不透明结构一样，或者，您知道想要寻求青睐的非美国公民，对这一特殊的政府咖喱的青睐。”

Experts raise concerns about conflicts of interest

专家引起了人们对利益冲突的关注

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

Tillipman将特朗普家族涉足加密货币的尝试与亨特·拜登（Hunter Biden）在父亲的政府期间的艺术销售进行了比较。

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

她说：“论点是（亨特·拜登（Hunter Biden）的艺术品的购买者）可以用它来影响它。”

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.

就像加密货币一样，“许多类型的交易本质上都是不透明的，因为您不知道谁在购买它。您不知道买家是谁，” Tillipman说。她指出，实际上，拜登政府试图通过说有关买家和交易的信息来使总统与交易距离距离，画廊所有者将保密。

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.

尽管如此，她说：“与该特定交易有关，有很多合理的担忧，因为人们担心这可能是拜登总统的后门”。

“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说：“这里的区别仅仅是总统本人的参与。”亨特·拜登（Hunter Biden）的艺术使他赚了大约150万美元