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This was just released in the German press. It should be easy to confirm it this is true or not. I would assume it is… I hope none of you guys were invested here.

Trump Family Earned Billions – Investors Earned Almost Nothing

The “$Trump crypto coins” brought in a great deal of money for the Trump family. But investors appear to be left holding the bag.

The family of U.S. President Donald Trump is said to have earned around $2.3 billion (approximately €1.9 billion) from cryptocurrency ventures since taking office. However, most investors in digital currencies such as the $Trump coin and the Melania coin reportedly saw little or no return. According to Reuters, the Trump family used the same strategy four times to profit from investments in its crypto products—while investing very little of its own money.

More than one million investors are said to have lost up to $2.3 billion, according to the report. Those affected were primarily small retail investors who bought the crypto coins, as well as investors in crypto funds. These losses also include investments that could not be converted into profits through resale.

The process was always the same: the tokens were launched with extensive promotion, demand surged, and their value initially increased. The Trump family and its associates then sold their holdings and pocketed the profits. Afterward, the cryptocurrencies lost substantial value, leaving many investors—especially small ones—with heavy losses.
For its investigation, Reuters analyzed blockchain data, a publicly accessible record of cryptocurrency transactions. It also reviewed thousands of official documents, including those from Trump family companies.

The companies at the center of the investigation are World Liberty Financial, American Bitcoin, AI Financial Corporation (formerly ALT5 Sigma), and the $Trump memecoin, a cryptocurrency. All of these ventures sold so-called tokens, a type of digital voucher. Investors bought them hoping their value would rise. Instead, the opposite occurred.
The $Trump coins, originally issued at $28.73 per coin, are now worth significantly less and have lost about 93% of their value from their peak, according to the American technology magazine Ars Technica. The Melania Trump memecoin, launched at the same time, has suffered an even greater decline of 99%.

Matt, a 45-year-old mechanical engineer from Indiana, told Reuters that last September he wanted to recover from recent investment losses and therefore invested $40,000—30% of his crypto and stock portfolio at the time—in ALT5 Sigma shares.
“If a stock essentially has the support of the president—or at least his sons—you would think it would go up,” he said.

Since his purchase, Matt’s shares have lost 79% of their value, amounting to a loss of approximately $32,700. He said he continues to hold the stock because he believes it is undervalued. “I consider myself a loser, but I haven’t given up yet,” he said.

The Trumps reportedly profited from their crypto projects by following a business model Donald Trump had already used in real estate. Rather than investing his own money, he licenses the Trump name to projects.
“Licensing deals are the best deals ever because they carry no risk,” Trump told Reuters in 2016. “Licensing deals are better because you don’t have to put up any capital.”
According to Reuters, the crypto offerings were marketed to investors of all sizes, including accredited U.S. investors who meet certain income and wealth requirements under U.S. regulations.

For 1.5 cents per token, buyers received limited voting rights on important platform decisions but no entitlement to share in profits.
Shortly before token sales began, Donald Trump encouraged his millions of followers on the social media platform X to buy, writing:
“@WorldLibertyFi plans to help make America the crypto capital of the world! The whitelist for eligible persons is officially open—this is your chance to be part of this historic moment.”
Investors assumed they would profit significantly once the tokens began trading on cryptocurrency exchanges. Instead, World Liberty Financial prohibited them from selling more than 20% of their holdings, claiming the restriction would ensure broad participation in the ecosystem and sustainable growth.

In April 2026, World Liberty tightened the restrictions further. It announced that token holders would not be able to fully unlock their tokens before 2030, after Donald Trump’s expected departure from office. The company said this would encourage long-term participation and maintain a healthy token supply.

For investors, this meant not only suffering losses from falling prices but also being unable to sell their tokens.

Reuters cited a European investor who said he spent $45,000 on three million tokens. He was able to sell 20% of them at a profit of $83,000, but an additional $144,000 in potential proceeds remains inaccessible because of the selling restrictions.
He described the token lock-up as: „A complete farce,” designed to extract as much money as possible from investors before Trump leaves office.

David Krause, a finance expert at Marquette University, has monitored the Trump memecoin since its launch. In March, he analyzed the effect of promotional events on the token’s price for Ars Technica.

He found that a Trump gala event failed to reverse the token’s long-term downward trend and that the outlook for investors remained poor.

“About 80% of the token supply is controlled by Trump-affiliated companies,” which may have little interest in maintaining the token’s market value. These companies collect fees every time the token is traded, benefit from price spikes before events, and reportedly earned more than $324 million in fees alone since the memecoin’s launch.

Krause told the publication: “Such a high degree of concentration is highly unusual and is generally considered a major warning sign.” When Reuters asked about investor complaints, World Liberty spokesman David Wachsman responded by email: “The World Liberty team has always actively engaged with our community. We believe in the value of our ecosystem and have always taken a long-term perspective.”

For the Trump family, the company appears to have been highly profitable. Reuters found no evidence that the president’s family invested its own money to establish World Liberty. Even if they had, cryptocurrency industry advisers and academics told Reuters that the company could likely have been launched for less than $1 million, including software development and legal expenses.

Meanwhile, Reuters estimated that total investor losses—both for those who purchased tokens directly from World Liberty and those who acquired them through crypto exchanges—amounted to approximately $674 million as of April 30, 2026, based on original sale prices and market values.