The TRUMP memecoin announced on Wednesday a dinner reserved for its 185 top holders, set for November 22 at Trump National in Virginia. The leaderboard that picks the guests locks on November 12, and the top four finishers will each receive an 18-karat gold Trump watch. No attendee will get a private meet and greet with the president, the event’s official site states.
Key Takeaways
- The TRUMP memecoin invites its 185 top holders to a dinner on November 22 at Trump National in Virginia.
- The leaderboard ranking guests runs on holding duration and locks on November 12; the top four get an 18-karat gold watch.
- The token trades at $2.04, down 97% from its January 2025 peak, while Trump reported $635M in royalties for the year.
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ChatGPTTRUMP Memecoin Picks 185 Holders on a Leaderboard That Locks November 12
The project’s official account, @GetTrumpMemes, posted the announcement on X on Wednesday. The TRUMP memecoin is holding its dinner on November 22 at Trump National, the presidential golf club in Virginia, a short drive from Washington. The leaderboard that picks the 185 guests runs on a time-weighted score: owning the token is not enough, holders also need to have kept it. The scoring window opened Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern and closes on November 12, the day the standings lock for good.
The top 29 on the leaderboard also get access to a VIP reception. The top four each receive an 18-karat gold Trump watch. No attendee gets a private meet and greet with the president, according to the rules posted on the event’s official site, which also sets the entry conditions: holding at least one token of the TRUMP memecoin and registering a wallet with verified identity information.
This filter on holding patterns echoes a recent precedent. In September, Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP memecoin built its airdrop around disappointed holders of the TRUMP memecoin, proof that this token’s holder base stays identifiable and targetable long after the initial purchase.
A Third Gathering After the April Conference and the May 2025 Dinner
The format is not new. Donald Trump had already brought token buyers together at the Mar-a-Lago conference in April 2025, where a simple $3,000 purchase qualified a guest. A first dinner followed in May 2025, with 220 holders invited and a much steeper entry bar: the top 25 VIPs of that edition had spent $4.8M on average to make the list.
The financial mechanics around the TRUMP memecoin go well beyond this dinner. According to his 2025 financial disclosure, filed with the Office of Government Ethics, Donald Trump collected $635M in royalties from the licensing deal behind the token, through his company CIC Digital. His total crypto income for the year tops $1.2B, more than his golf and club revenue combined.
On the buyer side, the picture flips. A Public Citizen study puts cumulative investor losses at $4.7B across five Trump-linked crypto products, with $3.2B of it sitting on the TRUMP memecoin alone. The token now trades at $2.04, against a peak of $75.35 hit on January 19, 2025, a 97% drop in under two years.
A Cryptonomic video breaks down how these losses piled up product by product, from Trump Media’s Crypto.com treasury to the World Liberty token.
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The TRUMP Dossier Weighs on a Capitol Already Stuck on the Clarity Act
The dinner’s timing lands in a tense political stretch. On September 15, the Senate rejected the Clarity Act 49-50, unable to agree on its ethics clause. Trump himself had hosted senators weeks earlier to try to untangle that exact point, without success: the president’s crypto holdings, this token included, stayed at the center of the gridlock.
Several states are now moving their own rules forward, absent a federal framework. California banned public officials from issuing a memecoin starting January 1, 2027, a bill its governor explicitly framed as the opposite of the TRUMP precedent. The November 22 dinner takes place outside any federal framework that would govern it.
Registration runs one way only: invitations are non-transferable, and gift bags go only to holders physically present, with no shipping or refund for anyone who skips the event. The TRUMP memecoin keeps full control of a ritual that mixes loyalty, financial reward and presidential messaging.
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