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Trump Jr. runs paid speaking tour across Eastern Europe and Balkans

Crypto DeregulationTrump Family Business Dealings

Filed April 2025

★ The Brief

What happened

The tour took Trump Jr. through Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria, with paid appearances at sponsored business events and meetings with senior officials including Hungary's foreign minister.

Who enabled it

Who benefits

Deal or steal?

Trump Jr. shared the Bulgaria stage as Nexo co-founder Antoni Trenchev announced the SEC-banned crypto platform's U.S. re-entry. The same month, Serbia approved a Trump-Kushner hotel on government land Trump Jr. visited during the tour.

Starting April 25, 2025, Donald Trump Jr. ran a paid speaking tour titled "Trump Business Vision 2025" through Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria. In Budapest he met Hungary's Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and was paid to appear at a dinner sponsored by Hungarian business-news outlet Portfolio Hungary. In Bulgaria he appeared on stage with Antoni Trenchev — co-founder of cryptocurrency platform Nexo, which had been fined $45 million by the SEC in 2023 and ordered out of the US market — at the same event where Trenchev announced Nexo's re-entry into the US. Don Jr. used the trip to scout potential new family real-estate deals.

Actors

Who pushed it · 5

Who initiated, paid, or pushed the action.

  • Antoni Trenchev
    Antoni Trenchev

    Co-founder of Nexo and a former Bulgarian lawmaker; appeared on stage with Donald Trump Jr. in Bulgaria to announce Nexo's US-market re-entry.

  • Péter Szijjártó
    Péter Szijjártó

    Hungary's Foreign Minister; met with Donald Trump Jr. in Budapest during the President's son's paid speaking tour.

  • Hungary
    Hungary

    Government of Hungary; arranged a ministerial meeting between Foreign Minister Szijjártó and the US President's son during a paid commercial tour.

  • Nexo

    Cryptocurrency platform that paid Donald Trump Jr. to appear at a Bulgaria event and used the platform to announce its re-entry into the US market — two years after the SEC fined it $45M and forced it out of the country.

  • Portfolio Hungary

    Hungarian business-news outlet that sponsored and paid for the Budapest dinner where Donald Trump Jr. appeared as a paid speaker.

Beneficiaries

Who gained · 1

Who stood to gain.

  • Donald Trump Jr.
    Donald Trump Jr.

    Collected paid-speaker fees on his late-April 2025 "Trump Business Vision 2025" tour of Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria while his father served as President of the United States.

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