Donald Trump’s newly launched cryptocurrency surged on Monday to nearly $11 billion in market value as billions poured into trading just hours before the president-elect takes the oath of office.
President Donald Trump and the first lady released their own cryptocurrencies. Experts compare them to Beanie Babies and dogecoin.
Space X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who Trump has appointed as co-lead in the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), stands as the richest person in the world with a fortune of $433.9 billion, per Forbes.
Melania Trump launched a meme coin on the eve of her husband’s inauguration — causing his own new cryptocurrency to briefly tank amid a buying frenzy. The incoming first lady dropped news of the cryptocurrency — “$MELANIA” — on Sunday night — just days after her husband, President-elect Donald Trump, revealed his own newly created $TRUMP coin.
The Trump meme coin is the latest bizarre product promoted by the president-elect, who has also hawked bibles, gold sneakers, and diamond-encrusted watches.
President-elect Donald Trump launched his cryptocurrency a mere four days before his second inauguration. A constitutional crisis in making?
The soon-to-be First Lady introduced $MELANIA on Sunday, after which her husband's meme coin saw a significant price drop.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump released meme coins just days before he took the oath of office. A splashy pre-inaugural party was held at a property his company owns. And a Saudi-backed golf tournament is headed to a Trump club this spring.
Trump Media, the company that runs Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social, is expanding into financial services that include fintech and crypto. On Wednesday, the publicly traded company announced Truth.
Donald Trump once called cryptocurrency a “scam.” Now ethics experts fear the president may be carrying out a rules-bending crypto scheme of his own by holding onto crypto assets while serving in the White House.
Feeling burned by the holdover of Obama administration appointees during his first go-around, Trump swiftly exiled Biden holdovers and moved to test new hires for their fealty to his agenda.