{"id":38813,"date":"2025-01-23T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=38813"},"modified":"2025-01-23T09:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:24:59","slug":"no-trump-did-not-become-an-overnight-crypto-billionaire-cnn-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=38813","title":{"rendered":"No, Trump did not become an overnight \u2018crypto billionaire\u2019 | CNN Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/shutterstock-editorial-15108251h-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">President Donald Trump\u2019s meme coin may be a textbook cash grab \u2014 not unlike his $60 made-in-China Bibles and his $400 gold sneakers \u2014 but it\u2019s not the kind of venture that can catapult his wealth into the stratosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/23\/business\/meme-coin-trump-billionaire-nightcap\/index.html\">No, Trump did not become an overnight \u2018crypto billionaire\u2019 | CNN Business<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>good explainer on how ethereal \ud83d\ude42 the wealth of the rich is.  but article fails to mention the real porpoise of this and his other grifts&#8230; funneling money to trump as potus directly would be illegal (emoluments clause, and all that&#8230;) otherwsie.  just like the bibles, the sneakers, the cologne, it&#8217;s a ll a grift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s meme coin may be a textbook cash grab \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1102,521],"class_list":["post-38813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-tfg","tag-the-art-of-the-grift","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38817,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38813\/revisions\/38817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}