唐纳德·特朗普在推出价值数十亿美元的加密货币模因币几天后返回白宫，被指控腐败

前政府道德官员和总统专家表示，这一合资企业构成了“可耻”的利益冲突。

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.

唐纳德·特朗普在推出自己的加密货币迷因硬币几天后返回白宫，前政府道德官员和总统专家称这一冒险构成了“可耻”的利益冲突。

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.

总统和他的妻子梅拉尼娅在就职典礼前各自宣布了各自的硬币。特朗普周一宣誓就职时，两者的估值均达数十亿美元。

“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.

国会和总统研究中心创始人兼前主任詹姆斯·瑟伯表示：“他的家族企业从他的加密货币政策中受益，存在可耻且重大的利益冲突。”

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.”

瑟伯补充道，特朗普“似乎并不担心加密货币方面的公共利益”。 “他似乎受到利润的驱动，希望成为美国亿万富翁阶层的主要组成部分。”

“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.”

“美国投票支持腐败，而特朗普正在不浪费时间地实施这一举措，”曾在前总统巴拉克·奥巴马和特朗普手下任职的美国政府道德办公室前主任沃尔特·肖布表示。 “曾经的政府道德计划，部分由法律和部分规范组成，现已成为一个闷烧的火山口。”

The White House was approached for comment.

记者联系白宫请其置评。

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.

特朗普承诺将美国转变为世界加密货币之都，结束乔·拜登领导下的官员实施的镇压，并对数字货币采取完全宽松的监管。自去年 11 月他赢得大选以来，包括比特币在内的领先加密货币的价值大幅上涨。

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.

总统于周五晚上推出了 $TRUMP，向他的追随者推销这款模因硬币，以此“庆祝我们所代表的一切：胜利！”，随后第一夫人于周日推出了 $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.

据其网站称，特朗普币约 80% 的代币由特朗普企业的附属公司 CIC Digital 和另一个名为“Fight, Fight, Fight”的实体所有。梅拉尼娅硬币由 MKT World LLC 提供，该公司是第一夫人于 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.

总统的硬币有可能为他的商业帝国筹集大量资金，并增加他的个人财富，截至周一，《福布斯》将其个人财富定为 67 亿美元。

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”.

模因币——结合了数字经济的模因和加密货币这两个显着特征——实际上是数字扑克牌。专家表示，它们没有内在价值。就连营销特朗普硬币的网站也表示，它“无意成为投资机会，也无意成为投资机会的主题”。

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.

总体而言，加密货币市场的波动也是出了名的。特朗普美元在周末飙升，周一在他的就职典礼期间下跌；与此同时，MELANIA 美元下跌了四分之一。但它们的总市值仍保持在 90 亿美元以上。

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.

即将上任的总统在返回椭圆形办公室的途中夸大自己的个人财富，而他在执政期间承诺支持的这个行业的景象引起了前政府官员的特别警惕。

“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.

“这可能是现代总统历史上最严重的利益冲突，”奥巴马政府前道德顾问诺曼·艾森告诉《华盛顿邮报》。他补充说，特朗普在加密货币领域存在“最深刻的利益冲突”，并指出总统既“寻求利益”又要监管该行业。

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.”

专门从事加密货币的律师普雷斯顿·伯恩 (Preston Byrne) 表示，未来 14 天内针对特朗普的新货币提起民事诉讼的可能性为 90%，未来 60 天内为 100%。“我绝对肯定这会发生，”他在上写道。他的博客。 “有人会赔钱，一些律师会提出理论和文件。”

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”.

去年总统选举前为卡马拉·哈里斯竞选的亿万富翁马克·库班将特朗普的硬币描述为“送给我们所有不喜欢他的人的礼物”。

“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.”

“很多人因此蒙受损失只是时间问题，”库班在社交网络 Bluesky 上写道。 “我是加密货币粉丝。这不是加密货币，就像[臭名昭著的欺诈者伯尼]麦道夫只是买卖股票一样。”

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.”

就连特朗普世界郊区的人们也开始涉足模因硬币的热潮。 “我现在需要你帮我一个忙，”在特朗普宣誓就职后发表祝福的 180 教堂主任牧师洛伦佐·休厄尔牧师 (Rev Lorenzo Sewell) 在昨天就职典礼 X 小时后发布的一段视频中说道。 “我需要你去购买洛伦佐·休厄尔官方硬币。”