How Trump is making coin from $TRUMP coin

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  NPR.

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  Well, and if you were trying to make as much money as you could from being the president,

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  what would you do?

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  I would turn the Situation Room into an escape room and rent it out for birthday parties and corporate team building.

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  I was thinking cameo videos would make a nice birthday present for somebody.

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  Yeah.

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  What if they just set up a big shady carnival on the South Lawn?

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  Be like, here, try this ring toss.

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  There are no bad ideas.

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  Carry on.

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  What about selling a meme coin with my name on it and the top meme coin buyers get to join me for dinner?

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  Now you're onto something, President Wong.

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  And that is exactly what President Trump is doing.

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  Well, tonight, in fact.

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  If you're among the top 220 holders of the Trump coin,

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  this cryptocurrency, you can join the president for a gala dinner.

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  I can taste that dry chicken now.

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  This is the kind of shenanigans that has me asking, is this legal?

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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