'America is not for sale:' Protesters mob Trump golf course guests ahead of exclusive crypto dinner

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Source: The Independent

Friday 23 May 2025 03:07 BST


Some 100 protesters gathered outside Donald Trump’s National Golf Course club in Virginia ahead of a secretive dinner for investors in his cryptocurrency – with spots reportedly costing over $1.5 million to dine with the president.

Holding signs reading “Stop Crypto Corruption,” “America is not for sale,” “Grift Gala,” as well as brandishing a large gold coin featuring a large image of Trump’s scowling face, the demonstrators shouted “shame, shame, shame” as the presidential motorcade arrived.

The controversial event was advertised last month as “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION” in the world, and involved a competition to buy access to the president by purchasing the most $TRUMP crypto currency. Around 80 percent of the meme coin’s supply is controlled by the Trump Organization and its affiliates.

The dinner is being hosted for the top 220 investors in the cryptocurrency, and the top 25 are also due to join him for a cocktail reception on Friday, according to The New York Times.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-crypto-dinner-anonymous-protesters-b2756392.html

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. It clearly IS for sale.

Despite what that sign says.

I can’t even imagine what we’re going to look like in four years.

[barbtries]

3. yep.

easy to imagine his "buyers" laughing at the protest.

it totally is

[Wiz Imp]

6. Yep. And it hasn't occurred to me before, but your title made me think about it and I concluded

that Trump would absolutely sell off pieces of the US if he could direct all the Money to himself. Putin want Alaska back? Well, if his buddy Vlad gives Trump personally 500 billion dollars, Trump would say Vlad can have it...

[speak easy]

8. Krasnov is not an American President.

He is a entirely different species of rotting fish hooked on juicy grift.

[sheshe2]

10. ...

[Onthefly]

2. The personal grift and enrichment is maddening!

[artemisia1]

4. That's right it's not. It was already sold by Ronald Reagan in the 1980's.

[GiqueCee]

5. As unspeakably evil as Trump is...

... the 70-odd million malicious, racist, brain-dead bags of pig excrement that voted for him – not in spite of his crimes, but because of them – have the potential to be far, FAR worse. Watch your six; these treacherous motherfuckers are everywhere. And a sick, twisted ideology isn't even their primary motivating force; they just love to hate "alla dem do-gooder libruls wut try ta help people alla time."

[ECL213]

7. I have a Second Amendment right to own a cruise missile and use it if I feel threatened...

don't I?

[twodogsbarking]

9. Maybe the electricity will go out.