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If you've ever wondered what the perfect memecoin scheme looks like, but with class, in a suit and with the US flag in the background 🦅 — we have the answer:
👉 Trump family memecoins.
Short version?
🎺 Trump shouts "victory"
🔥 people are buying like crazy
📉 the token is doing a classic "to the basement"
💰 and the family and stock exchanges... are counting their money
And everyone agrees: "It's the market, after all." 🤡
🤡 Pump? Yes. Dump? Yes. But not for everyone. 🥂
📉 Retail investors: "I was left with a meme and despair."
According to an analysis by Chainalysis (commissioned by the NYT and later cited by Fortune, among others):
✅ Over 813,000 wallets bought $TRUMP and
❌ lost a total of ~$2 billion.
Yes, you read that right: $2,000,000,000 has vanished. 💨💀
This is the moment when every "crypto veteran" says:
"You shouldn't have bought at the peak."
...and every normal person responds:
"Then why was it released at all?" 😭
💰 Who made money? Spoiler: NOT YOU 😇
🏛️ 1) The Trump family and partners: fees like at a casino 🎰
Coindesk reported that:
💸 Entities affiliated with the Trumps earned approximately $320 million in fees related to the token,
, even though the price has fallen by approximately 87% since its launch.
So... even when investors were drowning, the money kept flowing 💅
Earlier (in the first few weeks), Fortune reported that even then, fees for related entities amounted to approximately $100 million.
🏦 2) Stock exchanges: "We love the free market, especially commissions." 😎
Here's the best number:
Reuters calculated that:
✅ 10 exchanges (including Binance, Coinbase, OKX, etc.)
earned at least $172 million in commissions from trading $TRUMP alone. 💸💸💸
It's not even "investing." It's fleecing people, but in 4K. 🐑📺
⛓️ 3) Solana: "Thanks for the chaos, here's the bill." 🧾
The $TRUMP and $MELANIA trade shot up so high that...
✅ Solana validators earned over $25 million in fees and tips,
because everyone wanted to "get in first" (i.e., buy at the peak) 🤝😂
So even though you lost, at least you paid for someone else to live in luxury for a week 🛥️🍾
🧠 Why does it work? Because memecoins are an "emotion business." 😭🔥
The mechanics are ingeniously simple:
- Name + meme = hype
- Hype = FOMO
- FOMO = trading
- Trade = fees
- Fees = real earnings
- And the price? It may drop to zero, but the fees will remain 😌
🥴 The most ironic thing? "It's not a scam, it's the market." 😇
And yes, technically...
📌 You don't have to steal from anyone,
📌 Just create a token,
📌 And then watch people buy it because "Trump" and "it might go up 100 times" 😂
It's like a casino, only with a worse bar.
📌 Numbers ✅
💀 813,000 wallets lost
💀 ~$2 billion after purchasing $TRUMP
💰 Trump-linked companies: ~$320 million in fees
🏦 exchanges: ~$172 million in commissions
⛓️ Solana validators: ~$25 million in fees and tips
😈 Moral for the reader
📢 If a memecoin has Trump, Melania, or any other celebrity in its name...
remember:
👉 You buy a dream
👉 They sell liquidity
👉 The stock exchange sells commission
👉 And blockchain sells a fee per click
And then everyone takes a photo on the yacht 🚤📸
and you're left with a token that not even your grandmother would buy. 👵💔

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