Almost one million investors who purchased the memecoin of American president Donald Trump – a cryptocurrency created as a joke, in theory – have collectively lost $3.8 billion: according to analyses by the analytics company Nansen updated last June. President Trump, on the other hand, earned $636 million from the memecoin bearing his name – that is $TRUMP – by selling it before its value plummeted.
Memecoins are generally considered a “frivolous” and too risky investment for most investors because they have little intrinsic value and are highly volatile, being tied to waves of momentary enthusiasm.
HOW MUCH IS THE MEMECOIN $TRUMP WORTH
Nansen’s analyses show that 988,905 buyers of the memecoin $TRUMP, that is two out of three, lost money, totaling $3.81 billion.
On the other hand, a “small number of buyers who invested in the early stages made huge profits,” totaling $4 billion, explains Nansen, “while the vast majority of retail investors suffered losses.” Last Friday the coin was trading at $1.76, 97 percent less than its peak price of $75.35.
TRUMP’S EARNINGS FROM WORLD LIBERTY FINANCIAL
Trump’s involvement in the cryptocurrency sector is not limited to the memecoin: his sons Eric and Donald Jr. launched a cryptocurrency company called World Liberty Financial, which in September last year launched its own cryptocurrency, $WLFI. Forty-nine percent of the company is owned by Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed, National Security Advisor of the United Arab Emirates and chairman of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund.
In 2025, Trump’s economic revenues related to World Liberty Financial amounted to $799 million. Nansen had more difficulty tracing the gains and losses of investors in the $WLFI coin because it was not immediately released to the public: in an initial phase it was sold directly by the company to investors at a price ranging between $0.015 and $0.05.
Eighty-five percent of the $WLFI transactions that Nansen managed to track recorded losses, totaling $83 million; gains amounted to $23 million. Currently, $WLFI is trading at $0.057, 82 percent less than last September.
THE WHITE HOUSE DEFENSE
The White House has rejected insinuations that President Trump enriched himself at the expense of his supporters, whom he had encouraged to buy the memecoin $TRUMP in particular.
In a statement sent to the New York Times, the White House declared that “President Trump proudly made the United States the global capital of cryptocurrencies,” and that “all actions of President Trump and his administration are undertaken in the interest of the American people.
