When Trump Bought Red Meat Bitcoin Burgers, He Called It “Crypto”

So it was fortuitous timing for Trump that his campaign scheduled a stop later in the week at Bitcoin-friendly New York bar PubKey. According to the bar’s official X account, Trump bought 50 smash burgers and Diet Coke for those in attendance, at a total cost of $998.77 including tax and tip, and then paid for everything in bitcoin. Fox News posted a video of the entire scene, prompting a sharp-eyed reporter from CryptoSlate to quickly point out that Trump’s role consisted mainly of sitting at the counter while the handlers actually carried out the transactionpassing smartphones back and forth between them. What ever. The crowd at the bar cheered. “Crypto burgers!” Trump said as he handed them out. A voice from behind the camera corrected him: “Bitcoin burgers!”