唐納德·川普在推出價值數十億美元的加密貨幣模因幣幾天后返回白宮，被指控腐敗

前政府道德官員和總統專家表示，這項合資企業構成了「可恥」的利益衝突。

Donald Trump returned to the White House days after launching his own cryptocurrency meme coin, a venture that former government ethics officials and presidential experts said amounted to a “shameful” conflict of interest.

唐納德·川普在推出自己的加密貨幣迷因硬幣幾天后返回白宮，前政府道德官員和總統專家稱這一冒險構成了「可恥」的利益衝突。

The president and his wife, Melania, each announced their own respective coins ahead of his inauguration. Both were valued at billions of dollars as Trump took the oath of office on Monday.

總統和他的妻子梅蘭妮亞在就職典禮前各自宣布了各自的硬幣。川普週一宣誓就職時，兩者的估值均達數十億美元。

“There are shameful and major conflicts of interest with respect to his family business benefiting from his cryptocurrency policies,” said James Thurber, the founder and former director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.

國會和總統研究中心創始人兼前主任詹姆斯·瑟伯表示：“他的家族企業從他的加密貨幣政策中受益，存在可恥且重大的利益衝突。”

Trump “does not seem to worry about the public interest with respect to cryptocurrency”, added Thurber. “He seems to be driven by profit and wanting to be a major part of the billionaire class in the US.”

瑟伯補充道，川普「似乎並不擔心加密貨幣方面的公共利益」。 “他似乎受到利潤的驅動，希望成為美國億萬富翁階層的主要組成部分。”

“America voted for corruption, and Trump is wasting no time delivering it,” said Walter Shaub, the former director of the US Office of Government Ethics, who served under former presidents Barack Obama and Trump. “What was once a government ethics program, made partly of laws and partly of norms, is a smoldering crater.”

「美國投票支持腐敗，而川普正在不浪費時間地實施這項舉措，」曾在前總統歐巴馬和川普手下任職的美國政府道德辦公室前主任沃爾特·肖布表示。 “曾經的政府道德計劃，部分由法律和部分規範組成，現已成為一個悶燒的火山口。”

The White House was approached for comment.

記者聯繫白宮請其置評。

Trump has pledged to transform the US into the crypto capital of the world, ending a crackdown pursued by officials under Joe Biden and taking an altogether looser approach to regulation of digital currencies. Leading cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin have surged in value since his election victory last November.

川普承諾將美國轉變為世界加密貨幣之都，結束喬·拜登領導下的官員實施的鎮壓，並對數位貨幣採取完全寬鬆的監管。自去年 11 月他贏得大選以來，包括比特幣在內的領先加密貨幣的價值大幅上漲。

The president launched $TRUMP on Friday evening, pitching the meme coin to his followers as a way “to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING!”, before the first lady followed with $MELANIA on Sunday.

總統於週五晚上推出了 $TRUMP，向他的追隨者推銷這款模因硬幣，以此“慶祝我們所代表的一切：勝利！”，隨後第一夫人於週日推出了 $MELANIA。

Some 80% of the Trump coin’s tokens are owned by CIC Digital, an affiliate of Trump’s business, and another entity called Fight, Fight, Fight, according to its website. The Melania coin is offered by MKT World LLC, a firm incorporated by the first lady in 2021.

據其網站稱，川普幣約 80% 的代幣由川普企業的附屬公司 CIC Digital 和另一個名為「Fight, Fight, Fight」的實體擁有。梅蘭妮亞硬幣由 MKT World LLC 提供，該公司是第一夫人於 2021 年成立的公司。

The president’s coin has the potential to raise significant funds for his business empire, and inflate his personal fortune, which Forbes pegged at $6.7bn as of Monday.

總統的硬幣有可能為他的商業帝國籌集大量資金，並增加他的個人財富，截至週一，《富比士》將其個人財富定為 67 億美元。

Meme coins – which combine two prominent features, memes and cryptocurrencies, of the digital economy – are effectively digital playing cards. They have no intrinsic value, according to experts. Even the website marketing Trump’s coin states that it is “not intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity”.

迷因幣——結合了數位經濟的迷因和加密貨幣這兩個顯著特徵——實際上是數位撲克牌。專家表示，它們沒有內在價值。就連行銷川普硬幣的網站也表示，它「無意成為投資機會，也無意成為投資機會的主題」。

Across the board, the crypto market is also notoriously volatile. $TRUMP, having surged over the weekend, faded on Monday during his inaugural ceremonies; $MELANIA, meanwhile, dropped by a quarter. But together, their market values remained above $9bn.

整體而言，加密貨幣市場的波動也是出了名的。川普美元在周末飆升，週一在他的就職典禮期間下跌；與此同時，MELANIA 美元下跌了四分之一。但它們的總市值仍維持在 90 億美元以上。

The sight of an incoming president inflating his personal fortune on his way back to the Oval Office, in an industry he has pledged to support while in power, caused particular alarm among former government officials.

即將上任的總統在返回橢圓形辦公室的途中誇大自己的個人財富，而他在執政期間承諾支持的這個行業的景象引起了前政府官員的特別警惕。

“This may represent the single worst conflict of interest in the modern history of the presidency,” Norman Eisen, a former ethics adviser in the Obama administration, told the Washington Post. Trump has “the most profound conflict of interest” in the crypto space, he added, citing the fact the president is both “seeking to gain” and regulate the industry.

「這可能是現代總統史上最嚴重的利益衝突，」歐巴馬政府前道德顧問諾曼艾森告訴《華盛頓郵報》。他補充說，川普在加密貨幣領域存在“最深刻的利益衝突”，並指出總統既“尋求利益”又要監管該行業。

Preston Byrne, a lawyer specializing in cryptocurrencies, put the chances of a civil lawsuit over Trump’s new coin at 90% within the next 14 days, or 100% within the next 60. “I am absolutely certain this will happen,” he wrote on his blog. “Someone will lose money, some lawyer will come up with a theory and file.”

專門從事加密貨幣的律師普雷斯頓·伯恩​​(Preston Byrne) 表示，未來14 天內針對川普的新貨幣提起民事訴訟的可能性為90%，未來60 天內為100%。這會發生，」他在上寫道。他的部落格。 “有人會賠錢，一些律師會提出理論和文件。”

The billionaire businessman Mark Cuban, who campaigned for Kamala Harris ahead of last year’s presidential election, described Trump’s coin as a “gift to all of us who are not fans of his”.

去年總統大選前為卡馬拉·哈里斯競選的億萬富翁馬克·庫班將川普的硬幣描述為「送給我們所有不喜歡他的人的禮物」。

“It’s just a matter of time until a lot of people lose money from this,” Cuban wrote on Bluesky, the social network. “I’m a crypto fan. This is not crypto any more than [infamous fraudster Bernie] Madoff was just buying and selling shares of stock.”

「很多人因此蒙受損失只是時間問題，」庫班在社群網路 Bluesky 上寫道。 「我是加密貨幣粉絲。這不是加密貨幣，就像 [臭名昭著的欺詐者伯尼] 麥道夫只是買賣股票一樣。

Even figures on the outskirts of Trumpworld are dabbling in the meme coin frenzy. “I need you to do me a favor right now,” Rev Lorenzo Sewell, a senior pastor at 180 church who delivered the benediction after Trump’s swearing-in, said in a video posted on X hours after yesterday’s inauguration. “I need you to go buy the official Lorenzo Sewell coin.”

就連川普世界郊區的人們也開始涉足迷因硬幣的熱潮。 「我現在需要你幫我一個忙，」在川普宣誓就職後發表祝福的180 教堂主任牧師洛倫佐·休厄爾牧師(Rev Lorenzo Sewell) 在昨天就職典禮X 小時後發布的一段影片中說道。 “我需要你去購買洛倫佐·休厄爾官方硬幣。”