# Bill Zanker Longtime Trump business partner and operational head of [[Fight Fight Fight LLC]], the public-facing issuer of the $TRUMP memecoin. Best known before the memecoin era as co-author of the 2008 Trump business-advice book *Think Big and Kick Ass*, Zanker has re-emerged as the executor of the [[$TRUMP Memecoin Universe]]. ## Background - Founded **The Learning Annex**, an adult-education / self-help seminar business that hosted [[Donald Trump]] as a headline speaker in the mid-2000s — the relationship that produced the book co-authorship. - Co-authored *Think Big and Kick Ass: In Business and Life* (2008) with Trump; the title established Zanker's Trump-world bona fides for the next two decades. - Has been intermittently involved in Trump-adjacent ventures since, operating largely outside the public spotlight. ## Role in the $TRUMP Memecoin Zanker is the operational lead at [[Fight Fight Fight LLC]]. Public reporting (Bloomberg, Fortune) has him responsible for: 1. **Gala logistics** — Organizing the May 22, 2025 Sterling, VA dinner (top 220 holders) and the April 25, 2026 [[Mar-a-Lago]] dinner (top 297 holders), including attendee vetting, seating, and VIP tier management. 2. **Treasury-company fundraising** — Spearheading the creation of a public digital-asset treasury company that would hold $TRUMP and potentially other Trump-branded tokens, targeting up to $1B in capital raise (per Bloomberg, October 2025). 3. **Senate inquiry counterparty** — Fight Fight Fight LLC (and thus Zanker) is the named recipient of the Blumenthal investigation letters. ## Why He Matters Zanker is the archetype of a Trump-world "trusted operator" — not a Silicon Valley figure, not a Wall Street name, but a long-tenured associate whose principal qualification is demonstrable loyalty. His presence at the operational center of the memecoin universe reflects Trump's standard approach: critical revenue-generating functions go to people whose financial and reputational futures are fully dependent on Trump goodwill. Where [[David Sacks]] represents the "intellectual crypto Czar" and [[Howard Lutnick]] represents the "Wall Street respectability" layer, Zanker represents the **direct-extraction operator class** — the person who actually runs the pay-to-play mechanics. ## See Also - [[$TRUMP Memecoin Universe]] - [[Fight Fight Fight LLC]] - [[CIC Digital LLC]] - [[$TRUMP Sterling Gala]] - [[$TRUMP Mar-a-Lago Gala]]