The managers of President Donald Trump's TRUMP memecoin have opened another seat at the table for the token's largest backers, lining up a third holder dinner since the token launched in the days before Trump returned to office. According to the event's official page, the top 185 registered holders will be eligible to attend the gala dinner, scheduled for November 22, 2026.

The promotion extends a marketing playbook the token's organizers have used before: ranking-based contests that turn the largest token positions into invitations to gala dinners. TRUMP, issued on the Solana blockchain, debuted on January 17, 2025 — three days before Trump's inauguration as the 47th U.S. president — and climbed to a multibillion-dollar market capitalization within days of launch. The best-known earlier event was a dinner for the top 220 holders held in May 2025 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where the leaderboard was calculated from time-weighted token holdings — a scoring method that rewards holding tokens steadily through the contest window rather than trading in and out — and Trump attended as guest of honor. Leaderboard competitions tied to token balances are a common promotional mechanic across the crypto industry, giving projects a way to reward sustained buying and holding over quick trading. That 2025 contest drew criticism from ethics watchdogs and Democratic lawmakers, who questioned the overlap between the presidency and the Trump family's crypto ventures.

For the new dinner, the official event page confirms the qualifying group as the top 185 registered holders, mirroring the ranking-based access model of the earlier events. With the same format now in place for a third time, whether the November dinner draws comparable scrutiny from the watchdogs and lawmakers who criticized the earlier edition is an open question as the date approaches.

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