Trump Coins: 4 Billion Loss! (Larry David’s Take)

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So the President and his wife blew a hundred bucks (and a hundred thousand dollars) on their crypto tokens, and now they’re catastrophically flopping over a decade of retail foolishness. 4.3 billion in thin air, folks.

If anything stands out, it’s that 2 million ordinary investors are floundering in the same sea while 45 early‑bird wallets are laughing all the way to the bank, netting $1.2 billion. For every dollar those insiders pocketed, we traded an extra $20 for a flat‑backed windshield at sunset.

Trump Coins Fall Up to 99% Amid Insider Windfall

Apparently, insider speculation is hot, and the rest of us are just… here for the show. The speed at which the currency sank brought a lot of people to their feet. One minute it’s soaring with promise, the next it’s a broken nail on a sidewalk.

CryptoRank reported that the $TRUMP token collapsed 92% to a pitiful $3.55 from its lofty $75 high. Meanwhile, $MELANIA took a nosedive of 99% to pretty much the value of a single mint on a shopping bag.

Trump Memecoins: How Insiders Pocketed Millions While Retail Investors Lost Billions

The official $TRUMP and $MELANIA tokens have collapsed 92% and 99% from their all‑time highs, respectively, and the damage to retail investors has been staggering. While insiders cashed out over…

– CryptoRank.io (@CryptoRank_io) February 20, 2026

Sure, the entire crypto market shed more than a trillion dollars in that same period, but we all know the biggest crunch here was structural, not just “market‑shocks.” The President’s tokens behaved like a bunch of kids at a birthday party, running around and dropping cakes as soon as the cake tin opened.

On‑chain forensic sleuths discovered that anonymous accounts associated with the first developers systematically siphoned liquidity from decentralized pools.

In a single month back in December 2025, the token’s main address ferried a whopping $94 million in USDC straight into Coinbase. Who outputs money, right?

The developers used what they call single‑sided liquidity provision on the Meteor platform. Think of it as selling all your ice cream without a scoop of actual sugar to balance it out.

Consequently, the market maker was forced to keep melting deposits onto unsuspecting retail buyers while they quietly traded those tokens into plain old USDC.

And no-there’s no guarantee the rest of us will stay above the water. If you rule your existence as a relaxing chuckle, keep an eye on the fact that the bad guys’ long‑term plan is to have us serve as the final “liquidity” for a big puffball exit when everything finally hits the open market in 2028.

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2026-02-22 21:31