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Just stop...ROG62 » Today, 5:03 pm » wrote: ↑ Bitcoin is like a share, right? It has a set price, and from what I’ve seen, it’s quite volatile…
how he manipulated currency will need to be proven as it’s outside the dollar, no?
He made the bulk of the money selling his meme coins, which have no transactional value.
Donald Trump did not purchase meme coins as an investor; rather, he earned more than $635 million in licensing royalties through an agreement with a cryptocurrency group that used his name and image. In total, the $TRUMP meme coin generated over $3.8 billion in losses for retail buyers as the token's value dropped roughly 97%.
The "insider" dynamic for these projects involved guaranteed early allocations, royalties, and equity rather than open-market buying.
Royalty Earnings: President Donald Trump's official 2026 financial disclosure revealed he made over $1.4 billion in crypto-related revenue in 2025. Over $635 million of this came directly from royalties associated with the officially branded TRUMP meme coins.Retail Losses: An analysis by blockchain analytics firm Nansen found that roughly one million buyers of the official $TRUMP meme coin sat on a combined loss of $3.81 billion, as the coin traded 98% below its early-2025 all-time high.World Liberty Financial: Separate from the meme coin, Trump and his sons secured heavy insider stakes in a cryptocurrency project called World Liberty Financial. The Trump family pulled in more than $500 million from this project through massive, early-allocation payouts