The top investors in President Trump's meme coin are attending an exclusive gala with the president -- but some critics are blasting it as a brazen pay-for-play event.

As people began arriving for the event, the price of $TRUMP dropped suddenly by about 6%, indicating a significant sales volume, before stabilizing.

Most of the guests attending the private dinner are not publicly known, and the White House has not said whether it will publicly disclose the guest list.

Lamar Odom was met with boos and shouts of “shame” as he attended a private dinner for top investors in Donald Trump’s meme coin. The former Los Angeles Lakers forward and reality TV star uploaded a video of himself walking into Trump’s golf resort in Virginia on Thursday,

The largest buyers of $TRUMP will be rewarded with a private dinner with President Trump at his golf course in Virginia.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, who attended a protest outside Donald Trump’s dinner, joins MSNBC’s Jason Johnson to discuss Trump’s latest corruption – the “shocking” dinner hosting the top buyers of his crypto coin in which the majority of guests appear to be foreign.

Some 220 of the biggest investors in the $TRUMP meme coin were invited to Trump's luxury golf club in Northern Virginia, where they ate filet mignon and halibut.

Price move gives renewed hope that the digital token can achieve a kind of escape velocity against almost any economic backdrop.