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Trump holds 80% of the supply. This is going to be the biggest rug pull of all time. Americans are literally getting shitcoin scammed by their own presidents holy shit what a timeline.
can I short this?
Not that I'm aware of.
And these "coins" are actually tokens. Not only are they not backed by any real assets (venture capital, real estate, etc), the damn things don't even exist in reality!
Honestly, it's kinda impressive that this scheme still works in 2025. How low can people go, I wonder.
Just means more rugs need to be pulled until idiots have no more money to waste.
Fresh idiots are being born every day, unfortunately
Calls on rugs!
Honestly, I won't forgive Biden for just smiling in response to Trump winning after not leaving 4 years sooner. Before anyone asks, I voted for Harris, so don't shove that narrative down my throat.
The tankies are getting REAL close to just outright admitting they wanted Trump, so there's that.
The defo do. Trump wants to hand Ukraine to Putin on a silver platter, the tankies have been salivating for that for years now
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America will have a law about this probably by 2070, after many more generations of Americans lose money to those scams and the legislative finally has people who understand technology to write laws about this
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Meanwhile, back in reality:
The venture was co-ordinated by CIC Digital LLC - an affiliate of the Trump Organization - which has previously sold Trump-branded shoes and fragrances.
Meme coins are used to build popularity for a viral internet trend or movement, but they lack intrinsic value and are extremely volatile investments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vmym2jvy9o.amp
Just because you SAY something is "worth hundreds of billions" does not mean it is actually WORTH hundreds of billions.
Yes. Just seeing the words "market cap" should tell you something. It is a completely meaningless term when you are talking about crypto currency.
The price means somethings, the amount held means something. The entity that sold them can mean something. But market cap isn't it.
To be fair, "market cap" is also a bullshit metric for stocks. The market price only ever represents the price of the currently traded stocks. Just dump 20% of the stock of any large company on the market and see how well their "market cap" lasts.
They are only worth what ~~people~~ idiots pay for it.
It’s money laundering
Isn’t that a conflict of interest?
Who's going to stop him?
His whole political career has been a conflict of interest.
Holy shit, inb4 he pumps and dumps and avoids jail cause of presidential immunity
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Dear god, please let donald trump choke on a piece of potato and die. Amen 🙏
Really sucks that I, an atheist, acknowledge that I can do nothing more impactful than pray Trump dies soon.
Luigi disagrees.
Also, it's a bummer that there's no eternal punishment waiting for him.
$25 billion, in paper. The value will be down to zero way before he manages to sell off even $1 billion from it. And thats a generous guess. Meme coins don't retain value.
Making ANY money this way is outrageous, but we sooner solve world peace and world hunger than Trump being able to sell this off for the current paper value.
Yeah I feel as though he won't get that amount of money either and making any money is also outrageous.
I feel like the biggest pressing issue here is that this is not meant to go to the moon and stay there. Instead I think the real motive is to make inflation. Look at it, it's not meant to gain that amount of value, it's meant to skew our perception of value. This way the current inflationary prices don't look out of place when, in reality, everything is over valued. I guess it is also meant to make some people more complacent to inflation by giving them hope of "there being a chance" even though it clearly details how screwed over most of them will end up in the end compared to the house/dealer. Gambling is and will always be a big problem that adds more pressure to an otherwise unhealthy economy.
I don't deny the possibility, but that sounds like a lot of foresight which I'm not ready to attribute to Trump or his team. Additionally I don't think they care about "the people". The voters served their purpose. They are meaningless to them now. They will continue to produce anger and outrage, and will extract as much money as possible while it's still possible.
I think it's a simple money grab. Just not a $25 billion one.
It's easy to think that crypto is over. The NFT bubble is so deflated. We've seen big companies like FTX bomb the hell out. I mean, the signs are obvious now, aren't they? Crypto was, conclusively, proven to be the scam everyone said it would be and we don't need any more proof, right?
And then we hear Trump administration is really into this crypto nonsense.
Somehow.
Guess they didn't get the memo.
Brace yourself for 4 years of spectacular, glorious fail.
And if someone says stuff like "oh, Trump just got filthy rich off of the meme coin he launched yesterday", let's wait and see how the coin does at the end of his administration.
Bitcoin is sitting at 105,000 each. Businesses have bought in, banks have bought in. A whole country buys them like clockwork for their citizens future.
Its a damn ponzi scheme where the last to hold the bag is the loser. Yet it is so big now, so entrenched, I dare say it may be too big (to be allowed) to fail.
Insane. And the worst part is, nobody actually uses them. Not in any significant way. It's just let's get rich!
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I hope everyone is acutely aware that you, me, WE are not in a class war.
WE HAVE LOST A CLASS WAR.
What happens now?
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Trump launches ~~meme coin~~ money laundering scheme, apparently ~~makes~~ launders more than $25 billion overnight
Ftfy
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This is so fucking stupid. Everything. I feel like we're living in a fucking clown show.
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