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Trump Meme Coins and the New Era of Digital Political Corruption | Pivot

January 22, 2025 / 06:11

This episode discusses the emergence of crypto meme coins linked to Donald Trump and their implications for corruption and bribery. Guests Scott and the host express concern over the potential for these coins to facilitate illegal activities.

Trump's reported plans for a digital asset executive order and the launch of his own coin are highlighted. The conversation touches on how these developments could lead to a new form of financial corruption, with examples of potential bribery scenarios involving foreign governments.

The hosts emphasize the risks associated with the lack of regulation in the crypto space, particularly regarding the SEC and IRS's ability to investigate. They discuss the broader implications for American democracy and civil rights.

Scott and the host also reflect on the media's portrayal of these issues, noting a tendency to overlook serious concerns while focusing on the spectacle of political power.

The episode concludes with a warning about the dangers of unchecked cryptocurrency and its potential to undermine democratic values.

TLDR

Trump's crypto meme coins raise concerns about corruption and bribery in politics.

Episode

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this is the most important story I think Scott and I are both totally offended by
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this and I think it is actually a serious problem of of corruption Trump and Milan have uh released their own
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individual crypto meme coins they're called just so you know Meme coin these kind of coins are called shitcoins Uh
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there's a fart coin in case you're interested and many others like it as of Tuesday Morning the two coins were worth
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$8.4 billion combined president Trump's reported planning executive order to make digital assets a national priority
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while he can while he promises to release 1 billion of his own coin in the next 3 years uh this is just they don't
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have to stay at the Trump Hotel anymore they can just bring the receipts for buying his shitty his shitcoin
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essentially this is really bad this is bad staying at the Trump Hotel or playing golf there where he saw the
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Ledger of golf officials uh buying stock in Donald Trump media that was all Checkers compared to this chess because
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with Donald Trump media he has to file with the SEC a public document saying I'm selling shares the price would crash
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now the following conversation I would speculate will or already has happened and that is President Trump
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congratulations on your enormous Victory it's your good buddy Vlad and guess what
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we're thinking of doing the treasury here in Russia is thinking of investing $600 billion do for a variety of reasons
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in cryptocurrencies specifically the Trump coin and my economists wouldn't you know it have calculated that based
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on the small float of a half a billion dollars when we pulse in 600 billion rubles or $10 billion that's going to
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take the market cap of this thing easily to 50 or 660 billion do and should you decide to sell 20% of your stake
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overnight what do you know and I just bring this up you'll become one of the five wealthiest men in America and in un
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and you don't have to say and and nobody will know and in unrelated news president Trump we would like you to
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seize arms shipments to Ukraine I mean this is just so this is bribery r large they have created it's kind of a bond
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this is what they thought Bitcoin would be used for bribery corruption pornography
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mer this is the I'll tell you a lot of crypto people are like horrified because they kind of they were like great we're
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finally getting our legs under us around some really important you know legislation what if you can't get what
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if you can't get two or three two or three Republican Senators on board for a federal ban of abortion and he just
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calls him and says hey on the down low you're old you're leaving I can give you $10
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million in crypto to your fund or to another account you name and no ever know no one will ever know oh uh Taiwan
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or China you're about to invade Taiwan we don't need to do a coverly just call them what if he just calls
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both of them and says it's eBay for geopolitics whoever buys more trumpcoin gets us intelligence and some of our
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heavy mat uh heavy armaments and or smania or buy or maybe and nobody has to know nobody I can sell it I can buy it
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buyers and sellers totally opaque this is this is America America has more from a platform that used to be about
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prosperity and making money I think that's wonderful such that we can tax these people and again invest in the
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middle class it's important to have that ambition it's important to make money it's a wonderful thing but we also were
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a platform for civil rights for rule of law for electing a group of people that had uh laws uh that recognize conflicts
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of interest such that they could think with some level of patriotism about preventing a tragedy the commons long
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term and do what was right for all Americans and then we could project those values overseas and try and
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Advance women's rights try and Advance democracy try and do away with honor killings and do away with child marriage
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and child child we could project our now all of that has been crowded into a tiny
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little box and America is essentially becoming a platform for how do you make the jump to light speed and it's a
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Hunger Games and if you make money have a remarkable life and you get to sit up front with your hot wife but everybody
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else unless you have money sorry folks you're not even you're not on stage this really has gone the and they run media
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they run all the M coin his coin is literally the democratization of kleptocracy that's what you said it's it
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is it's it this this is the thing people must pay attention to and do as much reporting on as possible is this bribery
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system that they've put into place and it may have already happened we don't even know yeah that we don't even know
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we don't even know we don't even know and of course they've now captured the IRS so there's not going to be any
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investigation by the SEC they've captured the SEC there's no way to it's up to reporters who they're putting the
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pressure on to be silence right A lot of people are definitely pulling back I mean a lot of the coverage was like look
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at the pageantry of normaly of power like they they didn't mention felon once they didn't mention the insur they did
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mention the Insurrection several times isn't it ironic this is where the Insurrection happened and they're
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sitting there right they're all sitting there as if nothing happened they did mention that but for the most part
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everyone's going to be pulling back they are they're absolutely going to be pulling back and you're not going to see
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it and that is what Russia is Russia is is a broken hollowed out uh State full of people halves and have knots of
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really making nothing no innovation and instead uh just that Tableau of the tech
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people up there should tell you every single thing you need to know about this particular what's about to happen uh
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hopefully they'll be push back I don't we'll talk about that in another in the next episode like what is the actual
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push back what is the way to control it because they do have their hands on the AI they have their hands on crypto which
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by the way they revoked that executive order that was one of the executive orders they they undid was Biden's AI y
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Biden's AI which was quite a good Fair one I thought um they just don't want any business I I would um yeah I this
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crypto thing is really bad it's like just it's just as you said Scott democratized corruption

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Episode Highlights

  • Trump's Crypto Coin Controversy
    Trump's reported plans for a digital asset raise serious concerns about corruption.
    “This is really bad, this is bad!”
    @ 00m 36s
    January 22, 2025
  • Russian Investment in Trump Coin
    Russia's potential $600 billion investment in Trump Coin raises alarms about bribery.
    “You'll become one of the five wealthiest men in America.”
    @ 01m 39s
    January 22, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • This is really bad, this is bad!
    Trump Meme Coins and the New Era of Digital Political Corruption | Pivot
  • This is the democratization of kleptocracy!
    Trump Meme Coins and the New Era of Digital Political Corruption | Pivot

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  • Corruption Concerns00:05
  • Crypto Meme Coins00:11
  • Bribery Allegations01:49
  • Democratization of Kleptocracy04:15

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