Trump and family made $2.3 billion from crypto; guess how much investors made?

[muriel_volestrangler]

If you guessed NEGATIVE $2.3 billion you have a real nose for sniffing out opportunities in matters of, um, “business:”

Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least .3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered .3 billion in net losses.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

— Molly White (@molly.wiki) 2026-06-09T13:18:52.787Z

While it's true that the deep-pocketed "investors" in Trump's crypto schemes are often looking for benefits besides a return on their investment, this article does an excellent job highlighting that most people who bought in are not millionaires looking for pardons and regulatory relief.

— Molly White (@molly.wiki) 2026-06-09T13:36:17.008Z

"While it's true that the deep-pocketed "investors" in Trump's crypto schemes are often looking for benefits besides a return on their investment, this article does an excellent job highlighting that most people who bought in are not millionaires looking for pardons and regulatory relief."

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/trump-and-family-make-2-3-billion-from-crypto-guess-how-much-investors-made

The Reuters article:

Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t

Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they've wooed have taken a $2.3 billion hit, a Reuters examination found.

The four businesses covered in the analysis include World Liberty Financial, the Trumps’ flagship crypto venture. It has brought the family more than $1.4 billion from sales of its governance tokens on a persistent promise “to build and democratize a new financial system for the benefit of millions,” as it said in an early social media post. The tokens, which give holders a vote on some governance matters, have crashed in value.

The Trump brothers have also heralded two publicly listed firms, American Bitcoin and AI Financial Corp, known as ALT5 Sigma until April, as convenient ways to gain exposure to crypto tokens through their shares. The companies’ stock prices have collapsed. And there’s the $TRUMP token, its poor performance typical of meme coins, whose value reflects the popularity of internet trends or celebrities associated with them.
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Since the November 2024 election, the president and his family have seized an enormous amount of the market for crypto token sales. Two of the four Trump ventures examined by Reuters have together sold more crypto tokens, by value, than any other crypto project but one, according to a Reuters analysis of industry data. And since the 2024 election, the Trumps have, as a family, generated more profit from crypto than any U.S.-listed company, according to company statements and industry data.
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Eight government ethics experts interviewed by Reuters said that the Trump family’s enriching itself from an industry that the president’s administration regulates – and that the president himself has championed – represents a conflict of interest unlike anything seen in modern American history. They noted, though, that while this departure from established norms is unethical and unprecedented, it is legal, provided the family does not exchange access to the president or regulatory favors for financial gain.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/under-trump-crypto-playbook-family-always-wins-investors-dont-2026-06-09/

There's a graph there (can't hotlink it) showing estimated crypto company profits from Nov 6 2024 to Apr 30 2026. The Trump Crime Family made $2.3 billion; Coinbase made $2.1 billion. Others listed (IREN, BlackRock, Circle and Galaxy Digital) made a net loss between them.

[tanyev]

1. So investors made about the same amount as all the vendors and contractors that Donny stiffs.

Apparently if you only do it once or twice it’s called theft, but if you do it ALL THE DAMN TIME it’s called “Trump being Trump”.

[efhmc]

2. That was my guess.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Rx: Sue the Trumps, class action.

[Turbineguy]

4. "We cheat all the others and pass the savings on to you!"

Anybody who does business with the trumps volunteers to get skimmed.

[Solly Mack]

5. ...