President-elect Trump launched his own cryptocurrency overnight and swiftly appeared to make more than $25 billion on paper for himself and his companies.
Why it matters: The stunning launch of $TRUMP caught the entire industry off-guard, and speaks to both his personal influence and the ascendancy of cryptocurrency in his administration.
- It also speaks to the nature of the crypto industry that someone could have $25 billion worth of something that literally did not exist 24 hours previously.
Trump holds 80% of the supply. This is going to be the biggest rug pull of all time. Americans are literally getting shitcoin scammed by their own presidents holy shit what a timeline.
Honestly, it’s kinda impressive that this scheme still works in 2025. How low can people go, I wonder.
Just means more rugs need to be pulled until idiots have no more money to waste.
Fresh idiots are being born every day, unfortunately
Calls on rugs!
Honestly, I won’t forgive Biden for just smiling in response to Trump winning after not leaving 4 years sooner. Before anyone asks, I voted for Harris, so don’t shove that narrative down my throat.
The tankies are getting REAL close to just outright admitting they wanted Trump, so there’s that.
The defo do. Trump wants to hand Ukraine to Putin on a silver platter, the tankies have been salivating for that for years now
Best trash takes itself out is how I see it. Glad they make it so easy to spot with red merch.
And these “coins” are actually tokens. Not only are they not backed by any real assets (venture capital, real estate, etc), the damn things don’t even exist in reality!
It’s somehow even worse than NFTs
can I short this?
Not that I’m aware of.
You used yo be able to do it on sketchy unregulated Chineseesque trading sites. Been a while since I used one and they go down semi regularly.
You can short anything if you find a lender
Trump bout to Hawk Tuah! on the American people and maybe the world.
This is money from foreign governments and corporations buying influence. It has nothing to do with “Americans”.
There are plenty of Americans that will buy this coin and lose money.
I’m sure there’s still a plenty of idiots buying these.
Yes, to the tune of 10s or maybe a couple 100s of millions of dollars. But now Saudi Arabia can come in and buy a billion worth of the coin as a direct donation to trump with zero oversight. This is open corruption on a scale we simply haven’t seen before.
Of all the things crypto would bring us, I would never have imagined it would create transparency and democratization in corruption. What a time to be alive!
America will have a law about this probably by 2070, after many more generations of Americans lose money to those scams and the legislative finally has people who understand technology to write laws about this
Isn’t that a conflict of interest?
His whole political career has been a conflict of interest.
It’s not a crime if it’s the president, the scrotus said so
Who’s going to stop him?
What a world we live in
The fact that fartcoins are 30 times as “valuable” as Trumps idiot-coins should be evidence enough.
Isnt this showing the exact opposite? Fart coin is less valuable?
To be fair the valuability of a coin is not that much related to its popularity, but to its difficulty of obtention through proof-of-work (of proof of stake)
I suppose that’s more streamlined method of bribery than buying property in his towers or booking his hotels.
Or buying ads on his wife’s radio station as apparently was how you’d get in front of President Johnson.
Hmmm that’s interesting. I wish I knew more about the crimes of all the presidents. I feel like if they were talked about more it would really bring down some of the power that people want to give to that office. Instead they make them out to be like gods after they are dead long enough
It’s funny (sad funny not hot haha funny) because we had a whole ass apology tour to the rest of the world because of getting caught having the Bush administration sign off on torture, up to and including lawyers and psychologists to support the theory that it was just “enhanced interrogation.”
Those are war crimes my dude. Bush should have been sent to the Hague. Honestly, what Bush, Cheney and Co. did was so much worse, devastating to the world, violent, and murderous than anything Trump has done yet. Honestly, you could argue that they ruined US reputation so bad internally and externally that they set the stage for Trump to take over. Trump won the year Jeb Bush was supposed to be coronated just like Hillary Clinton. They also are part of the current crises with immigration and rising right-wing sentiment in Europe since the war displaced so many. Bush deeply fucked up the planet and Europe and the Middle East especially.
In fact, Trump will do one thing previous Presidents haven’t done, he will make his own citizens suffer most of the pain instead of foreigners. That’s evidenced by how he considers many citizens to be foreigners already due to things like birthright citizenship. They’ve come out and said that explicitly. I guarantee he will be the first US President to cause more suffering to his own citizens than foreign citizens. He literally is gleeful at things like the Death Penalty, he wants to be the one pulling the switch. He’s really not all that different from Matt Berry’s character on Snuff Box who is a royal executioner who loves his job.
Anyway, we never did anything about actual well documented capital-W War Crimes, and instead have a “Hague Invasion Act” so if anyone from the US gets dragged to the Hague we’ll invade it to get them back. Like holy shit, I had my “Are we the baddies?” moment 24 fucking years ago.
They are only worth what
peopleidiots pay for it.It’s money laundering
Holy shit, inb4 he pumps and dumps and avoids jail cause of presidential immunity
Is that even illegal yet?
Nothing is illegal for a POTUS. He cannot be charged with any crime while in office, running for office, considering to run for office, and/or dreaming of being in office.
I’d love to be POTUS. Time to download some Nintendo games! /j
Pump and dump schemes? Yes, according to earlier incarcerations
For stocks, yes, but crypto is basically unregulated as far as I know.
And trump intends to keep it unregulated because of course he’s seen the quick buck he can make with that scam
Please someone explain how this is in any way legal. This is fucking absurd. The amount of hatred I have for every racist imbecile that supported this rapist fascist felon is too much for me to bear. The logical thing to do would be to just ignore everything because my mental well-being is more important, but this seems like some historic occurrence that should be stopped by any means necessary.
Why should legality matter? What are laws? It’s rules that the government put down for everyone to follow. And what happens if someone controls all aspects of the government?
Legality is meaningless in the face of fascism, because the fascist government will be making the laws. it’s like asking why it wasn’t illegal to do genocide in nazi Germany. Or asking why it wasn’t enforced by law to hide jews from the nazis to protect them
Legality is not relevant. Legality is not morality or a foundation for ethics. Legality is just the will of the government, for better or for worse. It is not something that necessarily serves the people’s beat interests
At this point, anything the billionaires want is legal. It is fucking absurd. The entirety of T****'s first term was insanity. This one will be catastrophic, and unfixable for generations. His supreme court, judges, corruption has made it inevitable.
I tried to logically deal with the firehose of lies and hatred, thought it was important and worth it. Not anymore. Not again. This country is too fucking dumb for me to care anymore, too easily manipulated. Not worth the pain. I did what I could, voted against it every time. “But the price of eggs!”
I’m just going to fuck off and try to enjoy myself while it burns. Someone wake me for the revolution, the oligarch bbq, or some legit riots at least.
There’s no rule saying a dog can’t play basketball
They aren’t buying cryptocurrency - they’re buying influence. The cryptocurrency is just a front.
The grift is so transparent it’s scary that so many people can’t/won’t see it.
Crypto market cap does not equate the equivalent in dollars. When you create a new cryptocoin you can freely adjust the coin’s parameters such as the amount of available coins. So let’s say you “print” 1000 coins and sell one at $50. You now have a market cap of $50000.
It’s like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, with the notable distinction that the rabbit isn’t real. What makes it real is if enough suckers actually buy the coins with real dollars.
I wish more people understood this. Especially in the press, since its their job to educate everyone else.
Trading volume is what matters, not trading price. It’s only worth $25 billion if you can turn $25 billion of it into cash.
Unfortunately since banks still haven’t take wised up to this, and the wildcat crypto banks really haven’t, its likely still possible to pump a meme coin and then take out loans against the purported asset value. The bank is then left trying to repossess a pile of worthless memecoin when you fail to repay the loan.
Meanwhile, back in reality:
The venture was co-ordinated by CIC Digital LLC - an affiliate of the Trump Organization - which has previously sold Trump-branded shoes and fragrances.
Meme coins are used to build popularity for a viral internet trend or movement, but they lack intrinsic value and are extremely volatile investments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vmym2jvy9o.amp
Just because you SAY something is “worth hundreds of billions” does not mean it is actually WORTH hundreds of billions.
Yes. Just seeing the words “market cap” should tell you something. It is a completely meaningless term when you are talking about crypto currency.
The price means somethings, the amount held means something. The entity that sold them can mean something. But market cap isn’t it.
To be fair, “market cap” is also a bullshit metric for stocks. The market price only ever represents the price of the currently traded stocks. Just dump 20% of the stock of any large company on the market and see how well their “market cap” lasts.
Trump launches
meme coinmoney laundering scheme, apparentlymakeslaunders more than $25 billion overnightFtfy
Bingo, the CCP can’t bribe Trump directly but they can buy a ton of crypto.
It’s easy to think that crypto is over. The NFT bubble is so deflated. We’ve seen big companies like FTX bomb the hell out. I mean, the signs are obvious now, aren’t they? Crypto was, conclusively, proven to be the scam everyone said it would be and we don’t need any more proof, right?
And then we hear Trump administration is really into this crypto nonsense.
Somehow.
Guess they didn’t get the memo.
Brace yourself for 4 years of spectacular, glorious fail.
And if someone says stuff like “oh, Trump just got filthy rich off of the meme coin he launched yesterday”, let’s wait and see how the coin does at the end of his administration.
In my mind this is just another way for shady actors to give him money with less paper trail. Is that not possible? I admit I don’t actually know how people are buying or selling this.
Honestly if that’s what’s happening it seems like an actual ‘good’ use case for crypto. Good as in clever/useful not good as in, well, good.
Bitcoin is sitting at 105,000 each. Businesses have bought in, banks have bought in. A whole country buys them like clockwork for their citizens future.
Its a damn ponzi scheme where the last to hold the bag is the loser. Yet it is so big now, so entrenched, I dare say it may be too big (to be allowed) to fail.
Insane. And the worst part is, nobody actually uses them. Not in any significant way. It’s just let’s get rich!
Even worse, they are used for lot of criminal cases, like human trafficking, childporn, drugs, weapons and more.
Like 95% money laundering, drugs and tax avoidance scams, like 5% everything else.
let’s wait and see how the coin does at the end of his administration.
Pfft, I’m betting he’ll rugpull in a month, tops, possibly before february even starts.
This is so fucking stupid. Everything. I feel like we’re living in a fucking clown show.
The amazing real circus
I hope everyone is acutely aware that you, me, WE are not in a class war.
WE HAVE LOST A CLASS WAR.
What happens now?
Now we wait til it gets so bad people stop going to work, in unity.
Time to start the next one
He might rename USA to Trumpistan 🤣
