The video was originally posted by the official account of Melania’s cryptocurrency, $MELANIA, then shared by the First Lady’s personal X account.
Though neither the caption nor the video itself expressed a clear promotional message like, “Hey, did you know I have a cryptocurrency? You should buy it or do whatever one does with crypto,” her retweet worked … sort of? The price of her meme coin jumped 7 percent after the post, though it’s lost almost all of its value since launching in January, as Decrypt explained:
The official Solana meme coin of Melania Trump (MELANIA) is up nearly 7% in the last 24 hours after the First Lady promoted an apparently AI-generated video of herself posted by the token’s official X account. MELANIA is now trading at $0.182, up more than 12% on the week, but still down roughly 99% from its January all-time high of $13.05. It briefly popped to a daily high of $0.191 following the first lady’s retweet.
Still, it does not appear that “into the future” and Melania materializing out of thin air have some obvious meaning that normies are missing. People in the crypto world actually had even more questions, as the $MELANIA social account hasn’t shared anything since June and the post did not address the many controversies swirling around the meme coin.