Despite the repeated statements of the White House that President Donald Trump’s gala for the main headlines of his cryptocurrency meme currency had nothing to do with their official duties, several of those investors visited the White House on Friday afternoon so they described as a special VIP event, attendees said to ABC News.
Sangrok Oh, an investor and businessman of Korean cryptography, told ABC News on Friday that he and other main investors had been invited to tour the White House on Friday afternoon, although it was not clear to him if Trump himself would meet them.
“So, let’s visit and tour the White House [and] At the same time, talk about cryptographic industries and the future of cryptography, “OH said.
The Black Tite event on Thursday night, held at the Golf Club of the Trump Washington area, attended around 200 cryptocurrency merchants, including many abroad, which obtained admission through a contest that awarded invitations to the main investors in Trump Memes currency, with at least some of the funds that flow directly in the chests of the Trump family.
Critics have criticized the gala as an “payment for the game” event in which investors who invested millions in the Trump cryptography currency obtained special access to the president.
The news that Trump’s main investors visited the White House seemed to contradict the statement of the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, on Thursday that the president attended the Crypto gala to personal quality, and that since dinner did not take place in the White House, he was separated from his official duties.
“The president is attending [the dinner] In his personal time, “Leavitt said Thursday.” It is not a White House dinner. It is not carried out here in the White House. “
President Donald Trump speaks after signing executive orders at the Oval Office of the White House on May 23, 2025 in Washington.
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The White House did not immediately respond on Friday to a request for comments from ABC News.
Cherry Hsu, memecore executive, a blockchain startup based in Singapore, said the firm’s founder, publicly known as “ice”, had also been invited to the White House on Friday afternoon. Memecore, according to him Contest classification tableHe finished second in the competition with $ Trump Money Holdings exceeding $ 1 million.
And on Friday night, Justin Sun, a Chinese maid of Crupto and the main investor in Trump’s memes currency, Posted a highly produced video From his White House tour, writing in X, “it was an honor to be invited to travel the @Whitehouse. Such privilege of seeing him in person.”
In addition to its multimillionaire investment in La Moneda $ Trump, SUN has also invested $ 75 million in World Liberty Financial, another cryptographic company backed by Trump. A month after that investment, the lawyers of the SEC under the Trump administration moved to stop an alleged case of fraud against Sun.
The Trump Meme currency website in a moment earlier this month announced a “special VIP White House” for the 25 headlines of main memes as part of the contest, but from last week, the site said that only a “special VIP tour” would be organized, not to mention the White House.
The site also included a discharge of responsibility that said that the tour was being organized by the fight Fight Fight LLC, and that the president himself would appear as a “guest.”
