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  • ‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home

    02/07/2026 8:11:53 PM PST · by Miami Rebel · 8 replies
    New York Times ^ | February 3, 2026 | David Yaffe-Bellany
    It’s known as “Don Colossus.” At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a giant effigy cast in bronze and finished with a thick layer of gold leaf. For more than a year, the golden statue has been at the center of one of the stranger moneymaking ventures of the Trump era. A group of cryptocurrency investors paid $300,000 to have a sculptor create it as a tribute to Mr. Trump, an outspoken crypto proponent. Then they used it to promote a memecoin called $PATRIOT....
  • Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner

    06/12/2025 8:05:14 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 14 replies
    New York Times ^ | June 6, 2025 | Eric LiptonDavid Yaffe-BellanyMichael ForsytheDevon Lum and Jiawei Wang
    The Trump White House has repeatedly sounded an alarm about visitors with ties to China’s Communist Party coming to the United States, arguing that they are a potential security threat. But the administration appears to have literally left the door open to a member of a Chinese government group when it went along with a plan to give the biggest purchasers of President Trump’s digital currency access to the president and the White House. Mr. Trump launched a so-called memecoin, a type of cryptocurrency, just days before his inauguration. To bolster sales, the president’s business partners created a contest in...