Trump toured the new granite helipad on the White House South Lawn Wednesday and signed his name on a slab. Then he went inside and asked the crypto industry for the law it wants.
He signed the back of the eagle in the presidential seal, hidden once the work is done. He named the payer on camera. “It’s about $5 or $6 million. They’re paying the full cost.” Sikorsky, the Connecticut company that builds Marine One for Lockheed Martin, is paying. Lockheed told ABC the money went to the National Park Service. Crews had first cleared the arena from the mixed martial arts card he staged for his eightieth birthday in June.
Inside, the government’s commodities regulator kicked off a new crypto advisory committee. Sergey Nazarov of Chainlink and Mike Belshe of BitGo took seats — both do business with the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial. Brian Armstrong of Coinbase and Arjun Sethi of Kraken run exchanges that list Trump-family coins. Paul Atkins, who chairs the securities regulator, sat alongside Michael Selig, his commodities counterpart. “We’re all happy with Paul,” Trump said. He walked them into the Oval Office afterward.
