How Donald Trump's meme coin became worth billions in a matter of days. $TRUMP coin peaked at $72 billion and has the crypto world buzzing.

Top investors in the meme coin $TRUMP will get to dine with President Donald Trump. Some Democrats call his family crypto ventures “profoundly corrupt,” while his press secretary says he is abiding by all laws regarding conflicts of interest.

In the crypto world, meme coins are mostly just jokes with no intrinsic value. But the Trump family is parlaying the president’s meme coin into two valuable commodities: serious cash and access to the president.