Trump Confronted on Air Force One by NY Times Over $2 Billion Crypto Deal

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

May 14th, 2025, 11:47 am


President Donald Trump was confronted aboard Air Force One by New York Times White House reporter Jonathan Swan over a $2 billion foreign deal that’s being paid for with Trump crypto.

Trump is currently on a four-day swing through the Persian Gulf region with stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, which has been dogged by the controversy over his eager acceptance of a $400 million “flying palace” from Qatar to serve as Air Force One.

The trip has also drawn attention to Trump’s family businesses, including the cryptocurrency firm World Liberty Financial. That company’s USD1 currency was selected by state-owned UAE firm MGX to pay for a $2 billion investment in Binance earlier this month. The deal was announced by WLF co-founder Zach Witkoff, son of Trump Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff.

During a press gaggle aboard Air Force One en route to Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday, Swan asked Trump about the deal. The president claimed not to know about it, but declared himself “a crypto fan”:

JONATHAN SWAN: Mr. President, an Emirati government-backed firm did a $2 billion deal–.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: What?

JONATHAN SWAN: An Emirati government-backed firm did a $2 billion deal using the Trump digital coins. How did that deal come about?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t know anything about it. I really don’t know anything about it. But I’m a big crypto fan, I will tell you. I’ve been that from the beginning, right from the campaign. I’m a believer in crypto.

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They don't even have to hide the rank criminality any more. It's all out in the open.

[BootinUp]

1. I would suggest that Trump lying about it

Is equivalent to trying to hide it.

[intrepidity]

2. Why no reporter ever asks

Why he kept calling Biden corrupt when his family does 1000x worse and so blatantly???

[LymphocyteLover]

11. IOKIYAR and it drives me insane

[Intractable]

3. This is from a man who says the "good parts" of the economy are his doing, but the bad parts are all on Biden.

[PatSeg]

4. "They don't even have to hide the rank criminality any more."

Yep, he'll just deny, deny, deny and get away with it as usual.

[DENVERPOPS]

20. Nope

because the have the U.S. Senate and U.S House, as well as the U. S. SUPREME COURT, in their front pockets, so they can stuff their back pockets and cry all the way to the bank......(or more likely their secret off shore accounts)

[sheshe2]

5. I am surprised TSF didn't have the reporter tossed off the airplane...

Without a parachute. Just saying.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Oh I expect that reporter will be outta there post haste

[sheshe2]

9. True dat. 😱

[PatSeg]

21. That was my reaction as well

"No more Air Force One rides for you!"

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. that'll probably start happening soon

[sheshe2]

14. Nothing would surprise me anymore.

[Paladin]

18. You think trump would EVER punish a NY Times reporter?

After all the Goddamned FAVORS that rag has done on his behalf, particularly during the last campaign? Hey, trump's a moron without a doubt---but he recognizes good help when he sees it. And that's what the once-proud NY Times has devolved into: Good help for trump.

Don't get me started...

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Of course he would......

He has already turned against his voters, select corporations, and recently the U.S. Supreme Court Justices.....

What bothered me, was that for a month before the election, they were already saying any crap that came to their minds.
I thought......don't you usually wait until after the election so you won't lose votes/?????????
Then I thought; It sounds like the are indirectly signaling that the election is fixed.......

[Diraven]

7. The "deal" is just a gift

The USD1 crypto was just created out of thin air. They simply proclaimed they owned billions of them and they're all worth exactly a dollar. Poof! So they were essentially just given this $2 billion investment for free. The only thing that gives the new owners of these USD1 anything in return is that the crypto can be theoretically traded again in turn.

[twodogsbarking]

8. Deny, deny, yada.

[tanyev]

10. Readability Analyzer on Trump's quote, Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 3.52

[Orrex]

13. Never has anyone known so little about so much

[Botany]

15. I really don't know anything about it.

[Deminpenn]

16. The Sgt Shultz defense

I know noth-ING!

[EarthFirst]

17. MF'er hasn't a single inkling on what crypto is or does...

Whether it’s legal; shady; illegal; violates campaign finance laws or what the supposed technology behind the blockchain actually does according to the cryptocurrency scheme.

All he knows is that it’s money. That’s it.

Same can be said about tariffs; taxes or any host of matters related to finance.

He hasn’t a fucking clue; yet pretends to be the smartest man in the room on the topic.

Fuck this guy!

[Godot51]

19. Magic money

Of course "he" doesn't know.

But, it is true that "he" is a big crypto fan.

Every billionaire loves money that simply appears out of thin air (or, in this case, out of a computer program's imagination).

Still, as you know, money doesn't grow on trees..

[republianmushroom]

23. And it is easier to laundry money.

But he knows nothing. chuckle chuckle