Trump’s self-enriching CRYPTO billionaire meeting at the White House

Hope For America with Heather Delaney Reese · Aug 21, 2026 · 14m

At 3:02 p.m., Donald Trump arrived late to the Roosevelt Room and turned a presidential event into something much darker than a policy meeting. Surrounded by crypto executives, exchange leaders, regulators, and billionaires, he praised the people helping him profit from the very industry his administration is supposed to regulate. Then, in the same appearance, he drifted from personal flattery to Kim Jong Un, from military exercises with South Korea to bad economic numbers, from election lies to visible exhaustion. What unfolded was a portrait of a presidency being used for self-enrichment…