The Never-Ending Grift
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Yea, he did.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/19/donald-trump-crypto-billionaire
And....
Following the launch of Melania's coin, Trump's memecoin crashed by around 40%, diving as traders scrambled to buy the new coin, according to on-chain data.
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Less than three weeks after its release, President Donald Trump’s memecoin has produced more losers than winners. For every dollar in trading fees the Trump crypto creators raked in, investors lost $20.
A total of 813,294 wallets holding cryptocurrency lost money through ownership of $TRUMP meme token shares in the 19 days since its launch, according to an analysis by cryptocurrency forensics company Chainalysis commissioned by the New York Times. The losses—accumulated as users either held onto shares of the coin as its value plummeted, or because they sold shares at a loss—totaled about $2 billion..
https://fortune.com/2025/02/11/trump-memecoin-traders-2-billion-dollar-loss-family-100-million-fees/
