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🗓️ 23 May 2025
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President Trump held a private dinner for the largest investors of the $TRUMP coin, a meme coin offered by his family’s cryptocurrency firm. It is the latest controversy surrounding the administration and allegations of corruption. From Elon Musk, to the Qatari government, opponents of Trump say that access and influence to the White House is available to the highest bidder. Is the president just benefiting from Americans’ low expectations about the integrity of their politicians?
There was another significant meeting for the president early this week. He spent two hours on the phone with Russian president Vladimir Putin. The two discussed a pathway to a ceasefire in Ukraine. Trump has often touted his ability to negotiate with Putin in a way other leaders can’t. Will there be a political price to pay if Russia gets what it wants in the negotiations for peace?
Sports betting, marijuana, pornography - access to these “tempting goods” has never been easier. Now you can add micro loans to the list. But one writer claims that this easy access could be harmful for American citizens. Is that the government’s business?
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0:00.0 | Welcome to left, right and center, everybody. I'm David Green, and I'm here with Moa Lathie and Sarah Isker. It's nice to have us all back together again. I feel like there's been vacations and various things that have kept us apart. Nice to be with you both. |
0:14.9 | And good to be with you. Always fun. Well, I want to start by saying that we believe in ethics on this show, being fully transparent about conflicts of interest. |
0:26.5 | And so just to be sure, I want to make sure that neither of you were invited to this fancy dinner at President Trump's golf course in Virginia. |
0:33.5 | I know it's right outside D.C., close for both of you. |
0:35.8 | Safe to say? |
0:37.0 | I just didn't have anything to wear. |
0:38.8 | I also wasn't offered a plane from Qatar. |
0:41.8 | Are we doing like everything? |
0:43.2 | So, okay, assuming that you have not been invited, let's talk about it, that there's this |
0:47.5 | private dinner Thursday night, the invite list, which didn't include any of us, was about |
0:53.2 | 200 of the top holders of the Trump token. |
0:57.9 | This is a meme coin that was offered by a cryptocurrency firm that is headed by the Trump organization. |
1:04.4 | It's spelled with a dollar sign at the front and then Trump, so I don't know if we should say strump. |
1:08.9 | I don't know, but it's a Trump coin. A number of |
1:12.4 | these top coin holders are reportedly foreign individuals or they involve accounts that are |
1:18.8 | controlled by foreign individuals. American or not, the people gathering for this dinner at the |
1:23.9 | Trump National Golf Club will have paid for a seat at the table with the |
1:28.5 | president of the United States. And this has really become a theme, we should say, of this presidency. |
1:33.8 | There was Elon Musk's $250 million investment into Trump's campaign, which was followed by, |
1:39.5 | you know, him having unfettered access to the president and also leading a new agency. There was, of course, |
1:45.1 | the image of the row of billionaires directly behind the president and his inauguration. And there's Trump |
1:51.8 | defending this pretty luxurious gift from the government of Qatar, an Uber luxury jet. |
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