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US Government Registered Several Websites Potentially Linked to Trump Meme Coin | Thetrilliondollardinner.gov, DinnerForAmerica.gov, and TheTrillion.Gov were all registered recently.


Thetrilliondollardinner.gov, DinnerForAmerica.gov, and TheTrillion.Gov were all registered recently.

404 Media reports that the administration registered three websites with .gov domains that all appear to be potentially related to Trump’s cryptocurrency meme coin. That promotion prompted several Democratic Senators to push for an investigation into whether Trump offering dinner to anyone who puts enough money into his meme coin amounts to a violation of federal ethics rules, though nothing much has come from that effort thus far. Shortly after taking office, it also registered DEI.gov and Waste.gov, the latter of which became the site where the supposed savings from cuts made by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency appeared.

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