难以置信。这是我上周看到唐纳德·特朗普总统宣布的第一个字

难以置信。这是我上周看到唐纳德·特朗普总统宣布的第一个字

Unbelievable.

难以置信。

That’s the first word that came to mind when I saw President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that he will host a dinner for the 220 top holders of the $TRUMP meme coin, with a private reception and White House tour for the top 25 investors.

这是我上周宣布唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）公告，他将为$ trump Meme Coin的220名顶级持有人举办晚宴，并举行了私人接待和白宫之旅，为前25名投资者举行了晚餐。

My organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has tracked 3,700 conflicts of interest over the course of Trump’s presidency. All of these conflicts stemmed from Trump’s failure to meaningfully divest from his business holdings. We saw Trump promote his own products and services, accept emoluments from foreign governments and engage in other conflicts of interest throughout his presidency.

我的组织是华盛顿的责任和道德公民，在特朗普总统任期内追踪了3700起利益冲突。所有这些冲突源于特朗普未能有意义地剥离其业务持有的冲突。我们看到特朗普在宣传自己的产品和服务，接受外国政府的梅洛遗嘱，并在他的整个总统任期内参与其他利益冲突。

Throughout those thousands of examples, I’m not sure we ever anything as blatant as this meme coin dinner. This is over the top — even for Trump — because while the practice of putting money in his pocket and subsequently gaining access to the presidency is far from new, it is more shameless than it has ever been. And even MAGA Republicans are beginning to take note. On Friday, Trump ally Sen. Cynthia Lummis, of Wyoming, for example, said the dinner "gives me pause."

在这些成千上万的例子中，我不确定我们是否有任何模因硬币晚餐那么公然。这是最高的 - 即使对于特朗普 - 因为将钱放在口袋里并随后获得总统职位的做法远非新任，但它比以往任何时候都无耻。甚至杂志共和党人也开始注意。周五，怀俄明州的特朗普盟友辛西娅·卢米斯（Cynthia Lummis）说，晚餐“让我停顿了”。

Let’s be explicit about what’s happening here. Trump appears to be auctioning off access to the presidency. The more of his cryptocurrency that people buy, the higher their chances of meeting Trump at his club. And there’s no ambiguity about who is profiting. Trump launched $TRUMP on Jan. 17, and Trump is able to personally in a few ways. As The New York Times reported:

让我们明确这里发生的事情。特朗普似乎正在拍卖总统任期。人们购买的加密货币越多，他们在俱乐部会见特朗普的机会就越高。而且没有歧义谁在获利。特朗普于1月17日推出了特朗普$，特朗普能够以几种方式亲自。正如《纽约时报》报道的那样：

A business entity linked to Mr. Trump owns a large tranche of the coins, meaning the president personally profits every time the price increases, at least on paper. Mr. Trump and his business partners also collect fees when the coins are traded, a windfall that amounted to nearly $100 million in the weeks after the coin debuted in January.

与特朗普先生相关的企业实体拥有大量硬币，这意味着总统每当价格上涨时，至少在纸面上都会上涨。特朗普先生和他的业务伙伴在交易硬币时也收取费用，在一月份硬币首次亮相后的几周内，这一意外收获了近1亿美元。

The public is clearly paying attention — after Trump made his reception announcement, the price of Trump’s coin surged more than 50%. That brings Trump more money. He may also stand to make an additional profit by holding the dinner at one of his golf clubs.

公众显然正在关注 - 特朗普宣布了他的接待后，特朗普硬币的价格飙升了50％以上。那带来了王牌更多的钱。他可能还可以通过在他的高尔夫俱乐部举行晚餐来赚取额外的利润。

The buying process is also extremely opaque. At the end of the day, we don’t know everyone who is spending money at his properties, investing in Truth Social or buying up his crypto assets. We also don’t know if any foreign governments or government officials are among the biggest buyers of $TRUMP coins. We may never know.

购买过程也非常不透明。归根结底，我们不知道每个人都在自己的财产上花钱，投资于真相或购买他的加密资产。我们也不知道任何外国政府或政府官员是否是特朗普硬币的最大买家之一。我们可能永远不会知道。

(Neither the White House nor the company behind the meme coin responded to recent NBC News requests for comment.)

（白宫和模因硬币背后的公司均未回应最近的NBC新闻置评请求。）

This raises glaring ethics concerns but, unfortunately, for the most part, our ethics laws outside of the Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution don’대로. Those clauses bar the president from receiving profits, gains or advantages from foreign, state and federal governments. Unless a state, federal or foreign government purchased the $TRUMP coins, there’s very little we, or anyone, can do.

这引起了伦理的关注，但不幸的是，在大多数情况下，我们的伦理法在《宪法》的《纪念品条款》之外。这些条款禁止总统获得外国，州和联邦政府的利润，收益或优势。除非州，联邦政府或外国政府购买了$ trump硬币，否则我们或任何人都几乎无法做到。

But because the buyers behind crypto transactions are generally not disclosed, foreign governments could in fact be buying these coins, meaning that Trump could be violating the Constitution without the public finding out. Individuals or special interests could also be buying the coins in the hopes of directly influencing presidential decisions that will affect all of us. Again, the public wouldn’t know.

但是，由于通常没有透露加密交易背后的买家，因此外国政府实际上可能是购买这些硬币，这意味着特朗普可能在没有公众发现的情况下违反宪法。个人或特殊利益也可能是购买硬币，以期直接影响将影响我们所有人的总统决定。再次，公众不知道。

This is unacceptable.

这是不可接受的。

In 2019, the Trump administration announced its intention to hold the G-7 summit, a gathering of heads of state and government officials from seven major countries, at Trump’s Doral golf resort. This was met with widespread outrage, and just two days later, the administration reversed course. A similar level of outrage is appropriate, and needed, here. We cannot allow Trump to continue to flout the law and our democratic norms with impunity.

2019年，特朗普政府宣布打算举行G-7峰会，这是来自七个主要国家的州和政府官员在特朗普的Doral高尔夫度假胜地举行的聚会。这受到了广泛的愤怒，仅仅两天后，政府扭转了道路。在这里，类似的愤怒是适当的，需要的。我们不能允许特朗普继续违反法律和我们的民主规范。

A president is supposed to serve the public, not his own interests or the interests of a wealthy few. With this meme coin dinner, Trump is giving the highest bidders access to the president while lining his own pockets. These wealthy investors are getting a unique chance to potentially influence decisions that could affect regular Americans’ lives. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of civil servants are losing their jobs thanks to his administration’s budget cuts, with a possible recession on the horizon as a result of Trump’s tariff policy.

总统应该为公众服务，而不是他自己的利益或富人的利益。在这次模因硬币晚宴上，特朗普在自己的口袋里排队的同时，给总统提供了最高的竞标者。这些富有的投资者获得了一个独特的机会，可能会影响可能影响美国人生活的决策。同时，由于他的政府削减预算，成千上万的公务员正在失业，由于特朗普的关税政策，可能会衰退。

This is disturbing corruption, and we cannot allow it to pass by as a new normal.

这是令人不安的腐败，我们不能允许它作为新的常态通过。