Trump is accumulating wealth and his currency investors are losing billions economy

About one million investors who bought the cryptocurrency linked to US President Donald Trump incurred total losses amounting to $3.81 billion as of the end of June, while Trump himself made hundreds of millions of dollars from the project, according to a New York Times report based on data from Nansen, a company specializing in cryptocurrency market analysis.

The newspaper reported that about a million investors lost money after buying Trump’s currency ($TRUMP), while the annual financial disclosure statements signed by Trump this week showed that he made $636 million from the project, with revenues exceeding $2.2 billion from his various commercial activities during the year 2025.

The New York Times indicated that the structure of the project gave Trump a financial advantage regardless of the direction of the currency price, as he obtained revenues from its trading operations whether its value rose or decreased, while he continued to promote it through his Truth Social platform and encourage his supporters to trade it.

Trump, who had previously expressed skepticism towards cryptocurrencies, became one of their most prominent supporters during his presidential campaign in 2024, when he founded with his sons World Liberty Financial, which launched the WLFI coin ($WLFI), the value of which has also declined since its launch.

Just three days before his inauguration as president, Trump launched the Trump coin ($TRUMP), which is a satirical currency, which relies heavily on media momentum and speculation and does not have broad economic or technical uses compared to traditional digital currencies.

According to Nansen’s analysis, losses were mainly concentrated among individual investors, while more professional traders were able to achieve gains by exploiting price fluctuations, which reflects the large gap in the ability to manage risks within the cryptocurrency market.

The report comes at a time when digital assets continue to attract the attention of investors and decision-makers in the United States, amid increasing discussions regarding regulating this sector and enhancing the protection of individual investors, with continued controversy over the potential conflict of interest between the US President’s commercial activity and his policies towards the cryptocurrency market.