Then, while being interviewed by Newsmax host Rob Schmitt, he proclaimed, "I am become meme [sic]," NBC News and The Daily Beast reported. "Yeah, pretty much," he continued after the audience laughed.

He posted an edited Lion King picture of himself holding up Doge—the Shiba Inu meme that inspired the cryptocurrency—with a caption of “ur welcome.” “Dogecoin is the people’s crypto ...