Trump family inc.
The Story
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Since being elected, Donald Trump’s personal fortune has more than doubled, and members of his family are doing well too. The White House says he’s given up a successful business career to serve the country, but critics say he’s cashing in on his position. How has the president made so much money?
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Host: Luke Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 0:11.4 | Last week, Donald Trump hosted a gala dinner at his Virginia golf club in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., |
| 0:18.9 | just across the Potomac River, for the top 220 or so investors in a meme coin he set up a few months ago. |
| 0:28.1 | A meme coin, if you haven't any, is a sort of unsettling marriage between cryptocurrency |
| 0:33.0 | and fan merchandise. |
| 0:35.9 | Those who spent big on the Trump coin |
| 0:37.8 | got an organic field salad, |
| 0:40.3 | filet mignon, |
| 0:41.6 | pan-seared halibut, |
| 0:43.0 | lava cake, |
| 0:44.1 | and a brief glimpse of the 47th President of the United States. |
| 0:47.9 | He spoke for about 20 minutes on the stage, |
| 0:52.0 | regaling everyone present |
| 0:53.7 | about how great the crypto market would be |
| 0:56.2 | under Donald Trump, how he's going to liberalise it, how he's going to deregulate it. |
| 1:01.4 | And cash in on it. |
| 1:04.0 | This is Donald Trump profiting his, sort of his opponents say, from being the president. |
| 1:09.1 | A lot of these people were foreign investors, |
| 1:11.5 | leaving to more accusations that this is a way that foreign interests have potentially bought |
| 1:16.5 | access to Donald Trump. Last week, the White House didn't respond to requests to release the guest |
| 1:22.6 | list, saying this was the president's personal time, not official business. One of the problems that people have with this dinner is that we just don't know |
| 1:30.6 | who some of the people in attendance were. |
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