Why Is Trump Involved In Crypto?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, political reporter Stephen Fowler, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:39.4 | 107 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 14th, 2025. |
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| 1:03.7 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics. I'm Stephen Fowler. |
| 1:08.1 | I also cover politics. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. |
| 1:14.2 | Today on the show, how President Trump's business interests and policies are intersecting. |
| 1:16.3 | Stephen, let's start with this. |
| 1:21.1 | The president has launched his own crypto exchange and his own meme coin. |
| 1:24.5 | So I want you to just break that down for us initially, if you would. What is a crypto exchange and what is a meme coin? So we're talking about |
| 1:30.7 | this decentralized digital currency where transactions are recorded on this open source database |
| 1:36.8 | called blockchain. And unlike a US dollar, crypto isn't backed by a government or any sort |
| 1:43.2 | of financial institution, meaning the |
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