Trump Memecoin Dinner on 22 November 2026: How the $TRUMP Leaderboard Works, Who Gets a Seat and Why the Price Has Not Moved
The short answer
The official $TRUMP Coin Club is holding a second "Gala Dinner" on 22 November 2026 at Trump National, Washington D.C., with seats for the top 185 holders on its leaderboard and a VIP reception with President Trump for the top 29. Ranking is based on time-weighted $TRUMP holdings up to a final snapshot on 12 November at 1 p.m. US Eastern time, in a self-custodied wallet registered with the club. Unlike the first dinner announcement in 2025, which lifted the price sharply, TRUMP has fallen about 9% since the scoring window opened and traded near $1.87 on 11 October. The token remains about 97% below its January 2025 high, and the project says it expects to sell or deploy up to 9.6% of total supply from unlocked tokens over the coming months.
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What the dinner offers, from the official pages
The details below come from the Coin Club's gala page and its 2026-27 Winter Events terms on GetTrumpMemes.com, read on 11 October 2026.
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| Item | What the official page says |
|---|---|
| Date and venue | Sunday 22 November 2026, Trump National, Washington D.C. |
| Seats | Top 185 holders on the leaderboard |
| VIP reception | Top 29 holders, with President Trump and one of three "legends" still to be announced, plus front seating |
| Extra gift | Top 4 VIPs receive an 18K gold Trump watch |
| Gifts for attendees | Fragrance, poster, trading card and a "Fight Fight Fight" watch, handed out in person only |
| Final snapshot | 12 November 2026, 1 p.m. Eastern |
| Returning holders | Eligible F1 Singapore participants can get a 10% carryover bonus |
The pages are explicit about limits: there will be no private meetings with the President, gifts are not shipped to anyone who does not attend, and invitations depend on balances and eligibility that the organiser determines "in our sole discretion". The terms also say the event may be rescheduled, moved or cancelled.
One inconsistency is worth knowing before you act. The gala page lists the scoring window as 30 September to 12 November 2026, while the Winter Events terms define the measurement period as 5 October to 12 November. On 11 October the gala page also showed both "Leaderboard live" and a notice that dinner registration is closed. If you are considering taking part, check the current page directly rather than relying on any summary, including this one.
How the leaderboard actually counts
Your score is not a snapshot of your balance on one day. It is a time-weighted average: the more $TRUMP you hold and the longer you hold it during the window, the higher you rank. Three rules follow from the official page:
- Selling everything removes you from every active leaderboard.
- After the 12 November snapshot, dropping below your snapshot balance does not cost you the dinner seat, but it can cost you the VIP benefits.
- Dinner registration is separate and required, even for existing Coin Club members.
The time weighting penalises latecomers. CryptoTicker worked through the arithmetic: with a 43-day window from 30 September, a holder who buys on 11 October has 32 days left, so the same balance reaches only about 74% of the average of someone who held from day one. Using the 5 October start in the terms instead, the figure is about 82% (our arithmetic, 32 of 39 days). Either way, a late buyer needs noticeably more tokens than an early one to rank level.
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Open →CryptoTicker also reports that registration runs through an email address and a connected Solana wallet, and that coins held on an exchange account do not appear on the ranking. That matters: buying TRUMP on a centralized exchange gives you price exposure, not a leaderboard position.
Why the price has not jumped this time
When the first dinner was announced in spring 2025, TRUMP jumped by roughly half within a day, from around $9 to above $14, according to CryptoTicker's account of that event. The first dinner in May 2025 was held at the same club, with 220 seats and a scoring window of just under three weeks.
This time the market has shrugged. On Binance spot, TRUMP closed 30 September at $2.053 and traded at $1.873 on the afternoon of 11 October, a fall of about 8.8% (our arithmetic). Daily trading volume on Binance has faded from about $33.5 million on 1 and 2 October to $5.4 million on 10 October. CoinGecko shows a market value of about $528 million, a 7-day loss of about 7.5%, an all-time high of $73.43 on 19 January 2025 and an all-time low of $1.37 on 13 August 2026.
The sources point to two structural reasons:
- Supply overhang. The project's own July 2026 market update says about 67% of total supply had unlocked by then, and that "less than 9.6%" of total supply, drawn only from unlocked tokens, is expected to be "deployed, sold, distributed, or otherwise monetized" over the coming months, in the same period as the Coin Club events. CoinGecko counts about 282 million TRUMP as circulating out of 1 billion; the two figures measure different things, but both say a large amount of supply sits with the companies behind the token.
- A weak market. Bitcoin and Ether have been under pressure all week, with heavy ETF outflows (see our ETF flow report), and small tokens usually fall harder in that kind of tape.
Derivatives traders are not leaning hard either way: Binance's TRUMP perpetual showed funding of +0.005% per eight hours and open interest of about 27.3 million TRUMP, roughly $51 million at the current price (our arithmetic).
What to check before you buy
The official pages state that $TRUMP is not intended to be an investment or a security, has no payment or transactional utility, and is not sold or distributed by Donald J. Trump or the Trump Organization; it is issued under a licence held by Celebration Cards LLC. Within that framing, four checks matter:
1. The contract address. TRUMP is a Solana token; CoinGecko lists the contract as 6p6xgHyF7AeE6TZkSmFsko444wqoP15icUSqi2jfGiPN. Lookalike tokens with similar names circulate constantly; compare the address character by character on any decentralized exchange. 2. Where the coins sit. For the leaderboard they must be in a self-custodied Solana wallet registered with the club. Exchange balances do not count. 3. The real cost of a seat. Nobody publishes the balance needed for 185th place in advance; the leaderboard moves daily. A seat bought with a large position is a seat bought with price risk until 12 November and beyond. 4. The downside. A memecoin has no earnings or dividend. After the first dinner, the price still fell. Only use money you could lose entirely. Our meme coin trading checks cover the wider risks.
How to act on this
If you only want price exposure to TRUMP and have no interest in the dinner, a large exchange is the simpler route: Binance lists a TRUMP/USDT spot market, and registering with Binance code 11350287 returns 25% of trading fees, settled hourly (see the Binance profile). If you want the dinner, the coins have to move to your own Solana wallet, and the exchange route only helps you buy them.
Quick answers
When is the second Trump memecoin dinner? Sunday 22 November 2026 at Trump National, Washington D.C.
How many holders get a seat? The top 185 on the leaderboard; the top 29 also get a VIP reception.
When is the cut-off? The final snapshot is 12 November 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern.
Do TRUMP coins on an exchange count? No. Only coins in a self-custodied Solana wallet registered with the club count, per the club's process as reported by CryptoTicker.
Will Trump meet holders privately? No. The official page says there will be no private meetings with the President.
Limits
Event details come from GetTrumpMemes.com pages read on 11 October 2026, which show a conflicting scoring start date and registration status; the organiser can change or cancel the event. Price, volume and derivatives data are from Binance and CoinGecko on 11 October and will have changed. Details of the 2025 dinner and the registration process come from CryptoTicker's reporting. This is information, not a recommendation to buy, hold or sell any token, and not a price prediction. Partner links may earn NexuAlpha a commission paid by the exchange, at no extra cost to you.
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