{"id":697533,"date":"2026-06-11T10:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697533\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:39:23","slug":"trumps-make-bank-off-crypto-as-investors-lose-their-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697533\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumps Make Bank Off Crypto as Investors Lose Their Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        People who bought into the Trump-branded crypto boom have, on paper, largely bought into a bust. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigations\/under-trump-crypto-playbook-family-always-wins-investors-dont-2026-06-09\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a> reports that four Trump family ventures in digital assets have together produced at least $2.3 billion in profit for the Trumps since President Trump returned to the White House\u2014while more than a million investors collectively show roughly the same amount in losses. The ventures include World Liberty Financial, two Trump-promoted Nasdaq companies (ALT5 Sigma, now AI Financial, and American Bitcoin), and the $TRUMP meme coin. Across them, Reuters finds a common pattern: the Trumps put in little or no capital, heavily promote the product, collect rich licensing or revenue shares, and exit with gains as prices sink.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        World Liberty alone has sent more than $1.6 billion to Trump-linked entities, even as its tokens have dropped sharply and many buyers are locked in until 2030. The Trump family pocketed some $500 million in an August deal involving ALT5 Sigma, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/09\/trump-world-liberty-financial-crypto-alt5-sigma.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a>; shares have since plummeted 90%, and the entity faces being delisted by Nasdaq. The $TRUMP meme coin has generated an estimated $616 million for the family while investors have lost more than $700 million on paper. Ethics experts quoted by Reuters call the president&#8217;s deep financial stake in a regulated industry he champions historically unusual, though not illegal. For a detailed breakdown of the deals, methodology, and investor stories, read the full Reuters investigation.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; People who bought into the Trump-branded crypto boom have, on paper, largely bought into a bust. Reuters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,5905,12,10670,14004,302077,921,968,79656],"class_list":["post-697533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-eric-trump","tag-memecoin","tag-nasdaq","tag-president-trump","tag-world-liberty-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}