
The event, scheduled for November 22 at Trump National, follows the recent legislative failure of the Clarity Act due to disputes over presidential crypto holdings.
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The Clarity Act failed a Senate vote due to disputes over whether the President should divest crypto holdings. Trump earned over $635 million from the TRUMP token in 2025.
President Donald Trump is putting another dinner on the table for his biggest meme coin backers, just weeks after a fight over his crypto interests helped sink the industry's top legislative priority.
The official account for the TRUMP meme coin announced Wednesday on X that top holders will attend a "gala dinner" with Trump and three as-yet-unnamed "superstars" on Nov. 22. The event will take place at Trump National, the Washington-area Virginia golf club that hosted the token's first dinner last year.
Seats go to the top 185 registered holders, according to the event page run by Fight Fight Fight LLC, the company behind the coin. Holders are ranked by a time-weighted score that rewards holding more tokens for longer, with a final snapshot on Nov. 12.
The top 29 get a VIP reception with Trump and one of the guest "legends," and the top four will receive an 18-karat gold Trump watch.
Don't expect face time, though. "No attendees will be granted a private meet & greet with the President," the page states.
The announcement lands just over two weeks after the Clarity Act, which aimed to set federal rules for crypto markets, failed a key procedural vote in the Senate, 49-50. Restrictions on Trump's crypto holdings were a central sticking point.
The final ethics language, which Trump signed off on, would have required covered officials to divest their crypto interests or place them in a qualified blind trust.
Democrats said that didn't go far enough. Hours before the vote, they sought tighter rules on large crypto holdings, dependent children and paid crypto promotions. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., argued the language left loopholes that would let the president keep profiting from some of his existing crypto ventures.
The meme coin is among the most lucrative of them. Trump's latest financial disclosure showed he earned just over $635 million from the token in 2025, almost entirely from licensing royalties. His total crypto income topped $1.2 billion, though some estimates place it above $1.4 billion.
The Nov. 22 dinner is the third such event. The first, in May 2025, drew the top 220 holders, and the 25 VIPs among them had spent an average of $4.8 million. Trump stayed about an hour, leaving some attendees feeling shortchanged, while more than 100 protesters gathered outside. At an April conference at Mar-a-Lago, one attendee told Decrypt he qualified after buying just $3,000 worth of the token.
TRUMP is currently trading around $2.04, at a $576 million market cap, down more than 97% since launching in January 2025.
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Top 185 holders will attend the gala dinner on Nov. 22.
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