Crypto Trump (TRUMP)

So I just read through the recently released financial disclosure and it shows that Trump made roughly $1.4 billion from his crypto-related businesses last year, with about $635 million of that coming from royalties tied to the $TRUMP meme coin.

Melania’s total reported income for the year was between $17–18 million, with around $6 million of it linked to her own $MELANIA memecoin.

This looks like one of the largest single-family financial windfalls from crypto in a very short period of time.

We had hoped that getting rid of Gary Gensler and ending Operation Chokepoint 2.0 would mean real relief and openness for the crypto space as Trump became President. Instead, it feels like the biggest beneficiary has been the Trump family itself. That’s before even getting into how the markets have reacted to tariffs, shifting trade policies, and other moves that have created a lot of uncertainty.

Trump claimed limited personal involvement in some of these ventures, but given the scale of the numbers, a lot of people are skeptical.

The bigger question for me is this: Why would someone who is already a multi billionaire, with more than enough wealth to last for generations, go this hard into something like meme coins?

I think we can understand why someone like Elon Musk ends up with enormous wealth. The market is essentially voting with its money on the companies he’s built that DO PROVIDE VALUE and the vision investors believe in. With Trump and Melania’s crypto coins however, it’s much harder to see what real value was created for the people who bought in. It mostly looks like a transfer of money based on name recognition and timing rather than building something lasting.

This is a selection of tweets from the brainrot account @cryptorover where this account praised Trump, $TRUMP, $WLFI, or the extraction machine behind it.

Think carefully about who you give your attention to here.

Always check their past.

Look at how fast they change opinions, how fast they change behaviour, and what they are willing to dump on their followers depending on whatever is trendy now.

I only want to show how little many big accounts actually care about you, and how rarely they think about what they are feeding their followers.

Question every piece of news here. Always ask what is behind it, who benefits from it, and why it is being pushed right now.

Example tweets out of many more, sorted by date:

August 21, 2024
Description: Frames Trump leading Harris in polls as bullish for Bitcoin.
Link: https://t.co/tAIVu19gp9

November 4, 2024
Description: Celebrates the possibility of a Trump victory and says he would make $172,000 if Trump wins.
Link: https://t.co/DBjI6yIV0Y

November 6, 2024
Description: Says that if Trump wins the US election, Bitcoin will pump like never before and “we will all get rich”.
Link: https://t.co/xJrbCbQ2b8

November 6, 2024
Description: Says Trump is winning all swing states and frames it as bullish for Bitcoin.
Link: https://t.co/QzM31GS2js

November 6, 2024
Description: Says Trump will pump Bitcoin to $1,000,000 and celebrates with “WE’RE SO BACK”.
Link: https://t.co/ZfFH4m5NfX

November 6, 2024
Description: Says Trump officially won the election and calls it “so bullish” for Bitcoin.
Link: https://t.co/67BXkkkEeN

November 6, 2024
Description: Says Trump will fire Gary Gensler, create a strategic Bitcoin reserve, and that people are “not bullish enough”.
Link: https://t.co/l0mlMxUnA9

November 10, 2024
Description: Asks people to like the post if they want to thank Donald Trump for the Bitcoin pump.
Link: https://t.co/Rbt7XSxvVb

November 13, 2024
Description: Again asks people to like the post if they want to thank Donald Trump for the Bitcoin pump.
Link: https://t.co/ZCHu8j3ll8

November 20, 2024
Description: Reports that Justin Sun might meet Trump for Web3 advice and calls it very bullish for crypto.
Link: https://t.co/R4XJPY2PBB

December 5, 2024
Description: Directly credits Donald Trump for the Bitcoin pump.
Link: https://t.co/c5czUmyBe9

January 18, 2025
Description: Says he missed the main $TRUMP launch but is bidding on the CTO version on https://t.co/QXqoP4WBTM, calling it a “HUGE potential” play.
Link: https://t.co/me6SIGwbvz

January 18, 2025
Description: Compares OG $TRUMP with the CTO version and says he is bidding on it because of the risk/reward.
Link: https://t.co/nTeRCjo4zE

January 19, 2025
Description: Calls the launch of $TRUMP “incredibly bullish” and says it is bringing retail investors in, with altcoin season about to get crazy.
Link: https://t.co/4e0LyVIlU9

January 19, 2025
Description: Uses $TRUMP as the benchmark for what could pump next.
Link: https://t.co/VAJwmYUpng

March 23, 2025
Description: Calls Trump saying he loves his meme coin $TRUMP “SUPER BULLISH”.
Link: https://t.co/QFOBN6GAmn

September 5, 2025
Description: Reports Justin Sun buying $10,000,000 in $WLFI tokens and frames it as bullish.
Link: https://t.co/m7qgBN5oec

May 22, 2026
Description: Celebrates Trump saying “NEW STOCK MARKET RECORD!” with bullish market framing.
Link: https://t.co/ALKbqKNBRg

May 27, 2026
Description: Calls Trump saying the US will remain the “crypto capital of the world” “SUPER BULLISH FOR CRYPTO”.
Link: https://t.co/H1LypkoshO

May 29, 2026
Description: Claims $290,000,000,000 was added to US stocks after Trump announced a US-Iran deal, framed as bullish.
Link: https://t.co/AfeQGe8Xx4

May 30, 2026
Description: Frames Trump’s plan for Americans to own stakes in AI companies as part of a nationalised AI boom.
Link: https://t.co/aEToCh9qa0

June 18, 2026
Description: Celebrates Trump saying the stock market hit a record high and oil prices are falling.
Link: https://t.co/VyJkEUZn6y

July 1, 2026
Description: Quotes Trump saying Bitcoin and crypto will skyrocket beyond expectations, with strong bullish framing.
Link: https://t.co/bVct1kzDCO

According to data tracked by Nansen:

By the end of June, nearly 1 million people incurred losses from buying $TRUMP, with total losses reaching $3.81 billion.

And our leader made a hefty $600 million on this coin! 🧐 https://t.co/f6lffIYFrc