Critics of the president’s decision to auction off a private dinner via his Trump-branded crypto token were worried about the stunt for a few reasons. At the top of the list: the potential for foreigners to buy access to the sitting president,

President Donald Trump is hosting a dinner Thursday for top investors in his meme coin, throwing the event at the Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, D.C., for a mostly anonymous group of attendees who have collectively thrown hundreds of millions of dollars at the president’s controversial cryptocurrency.