The Official Trump meme coin reached its all-time excessive of $75.35 on Jan. 19, 2025, shortly after its launch on Jan. 17 — three days earlier than Donald Trump’s second time period as U.S. president started. Since then, the coin’s worth has fallen off a cliff.
As of Feb. 1, TRUMP is buying and selling at roughly $19.38. That’s nearly a 74% plummet from its peak.
The coin’s market capitalization stays substantial, with a totally diluted valuation of round $2 billion (80% of the tokens are held by Trump Group associates).
SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci — a Trump ally-turned-critic — is looking out the president for what he alleges is a pump-and-dump scheme.
“President Trump posted on Reality Social final night time in an try to ‘pump’ his $TRUMP memecoin (sure that’s an actual sentence that many have normalized),” Scaramucci posted Saturday on X. “The outcome has been an acceleration of the ‘dump,’ now down 70% from its peak. The jig is up.”
Wall Avenue apprehensive?
Trump, who owns Reality Social via his firm Trump Media & Know-how Group, incessantly hawks gadgets on his private account (i.e., non-fungible tokens, or NFTs).
And, in September, Trump helped promote World Liberty Monetary, a decentralized finance platform for traders to borrow and lend utilizing cryptocurrencies. He and his sons should not thought of homeowners of the corporate, however they’ve an settlement to be paid for selling it, in response to the New York Occasions.
The Official Trump meme coin is simply the most recent money-making try (MAGA-branded bibles and sneakers have been additionally promoted).
Scaramucci, whose hedge fund was among the many first to delve into crypto again in 2020, posed a query to his 1 million-plus followers on X: “Might somebody please clarify to me on Crypto X How the President pumping his personal meme coin is an efficient factor?”
Scaramucci, who began his profession at Goldman Sachs, isn’t the one Wall Avenue professional scrutinizing the now meshed-together world of cryptocurrency and Trump’s White Home (Melania has an official meme coin, too).
In response to the Monetary Occasions, a memo from New York-based hedge fund Elliott Administration means that Trump’s heat embrace of digital cash is fueling a speculative frenzy that might “wreak havoc.”
The irony? Elliott’s founder, Paul Singer, isn’t any stranger to Trump-world. Regardless of being a longtime crypto critic, he donated $56 million to conservative candidates in 2024, together with $5 million to the “Make America Nice Once more” PAC.
Since Trump’s election, Bitcoin has shot previous $100,000, fueled by his vow to make America “the Bitcoin superpower of the world.” Not one to overlook a chance, Trump wasted no time signing an govt order to advertise a nationwide crypto stockpile.
In the meantime, Elliott’s memo questions why the U.S. would encourage options to the greenback at a time when different international locations are scrambling to ditch it.