Trump Put His Bribes on a Leaderboard!
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business, serving the best Americano in town is up to you. |
| 0:04.1 | But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to sum up. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new sum up terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the sumup point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best selling blends. Visit sumup.com.com.com to learn more. Hey, everybody, It's Tim Miller from the bulwark here with my colleague Andrew Eger, author of the |
| 0:24.1 | Morning Shant's newsletter, and we're here to discuss the most ostentatious, absurd scam in the |
| 0:29.6 | history of the presidency happening right now under our nose with the Trump meme coin. |
| 0:35.0 | We've been covering the Trump crypto grift a lot here. But this one, |
| 0:40.0 | I think, is, I don't know, the most clownish, the most right on the nose. I don't know what |
| 0:45.3 | you want to describe it. Andrew, explain to people what is happening. Yeah, this crypto story, |
| 0:50.3 | I keep almost forgetting about it because it's only Trump, like, nakedly |
| 0:56.1 | enriching himself at the expense of the entire body politic, at the expense of, you know, |
| 1:00.6 | all of us making a mockery of all the corruption laws and things like that. But in theory, |
| 1:04.7 | that's the worst that's happening. And, you know, there's all this other shit going on. |
| 1:08.0 | But this is just kind of an amazing thing. He rolled out this meme coin, you know, ages ago right before he became president. |
| 1:13.4 | He is now, or I guess technically the people who run the meme coin, what they're doing is they have launched have dinner with President Trump. |
| 1:21.8 | The most exclusive invitation in the world, the website proclaims, It's the top 220 holders of the meme coin |
| 1:29.3 | are going to get to sit down in May, May 22nd, and have an unforgettable gala dinner with the |
| 1:36.1 | president. It's amazing because not only is it just like, hey, good news if you happen to be |
| 1:41.0 | the person who holds the most Trump coin, as of the time of this announcement, |
| 1:45.3 | no, there's going to be a rolling average with leaderboards from now until the dinner. |
| 1:50.6 | And if you yourself become and are able to maintain one of the top 220 people in the world |
| 1:56.1 | in terms of owning this particular meme coin, you get to do it. |
| 2:00.1 | You get to come along. You get to |
| 2:01.2 | have the dinner. It's all great. And as you might imagine, this is quite the perk. As soon as they |
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