Brief
- The top 185 holders of the TRUMP meme coin will attend a gala dinner on November 22 with President Trump at his Virginia golf club, although no attendees will be allowed a private meeting with him.
- The event follows the Senate failure of the Clarity Act on September 15, where restrictions on Trump’s crypto holdings were a central sticking point.
- Trump earned more than $635 million from the meme coin in 2025, mostly from licensing fees, according to his financial disclosures.
President Donald Trump is cooking another dinner for his biggest backers, just weeks after a fight over his crypto interests helped derail the industry’s top legislative priority.
The official account of the TRUMP meme token announced on Wednesday The event will take place at Trump National, the Virginia, Washington-area golf club that hosted the inaugural Token Dinner last year.
Seats are awarded to the top 185 registered holders, according to the event page maintained by Fight Fight LLC, the company behind the play. Holders are ranked according to a time-weighted score that rewards holding more tokens for longer, with a final snapshot on November 12.
The top 29 will receive a VIP reception with Trump and one of the guest “legends,” and the top four will receive an 18-karat gold Trump watch.
Don’t expect face-to-face time, though. “No participant will be granted a private meeting with the President,” the page states.
The announcement comes just over two weeks after the Clarity Act, which aimed to set federal rules for crypto markets, failed in a key procedural vote in the Senate, 49-50. Restrictions on Trump’s crypto holdings were a central sticking point.
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→The final ethics language, which Trump approved, would have required covered officials to divest their crypto interests or place them in a qualified blind trust.
Democrats say this doesn’t go far enough. Hours before the vote, they called for stricter rules on large crypto holdings, dependent children, and paid crypto promotions. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., argued that the language left loopholes that would allow the president to continue profiting from some of his existing crypto businesses.
The coin itself is among the most lucrative of them. Trump’s latest financial disclosure showed that he earned just over $635 million from the token in 2025, almost entirely from licensing fees. His total crypto income has exceeded $1.2 billion, although some estimates place it above $1.4 billion.
The November 22 dinner is the third such event. The first, in May 2025, attracted the top 220 holders, and the 25 VIPs among them had spent an average of $4.8 million. Trump stayed for about an hour, leaving some attendees feeling aggrieved, while more than 100 protesters gathered outside. At an April conference at Mar-a-Lago, one attendee said Decrypt he qualified after purchasing just $3,000 worth of tokens.
TRUMP is currently trading around $2.04, for a market cap of $576 million, down more than 97% since its launch in January 2025.
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