JW

[NoLimit @NoLimitGains]

The Trump family grift machine.

Every major scam and why betting on Trump-branded investments has been financial suicide.

Just look at the track record.

Let me walk you through it.

1. TRUMP meme coin

Launched days before the January 2025 inauguration on Solana. Peaked at $75.35 with a multi-billion market cap. Current price: around $1.70.

That’s down 97.7% from the peak.

Pure pump-and-dump. Early buyers and insiders cashed out. Retail (many of them MAGA supporters) got left holding bags.

2. MELANIA meme coin

Launched right after the Trump token. All-time high $13.73. Current price ~$0.075.

That’s down 99.45%.

Same pattern. Hype, distribution to insiders, collapse. Family-adjacent branding used to extract millions from retail before the dump.

3. DJT (Trump Media & Technology Group)

Went public via SPAC in March 2024. Traded above $79 shortly after debut. Current price ~$7.50.

Down 90%+ from the post-IPO highs.

The company loses hundreds of millions annually with minimal revenue. The valuation was political hype. The business never matched it.

4. ABTC (American Bitcoin Corp)

Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. own roughly 20% via the structure. Went public through mergers and now lists on Nasdaq. Holds thousands of Bitcoin.

52-week high: $14.52. Current price: around $0.78.

Down ~95% from the recent high.

The structure let the Trump sons monetize via public markets while retail shareholders bled out. Sons get rich. Public bagholders get rugged.

5. The historical pattern

This is not new behavior. The family has run this playbook for decades.

Trump Taj Mahal opened April 1990. Filed Chapter 11 by July 1991. Trump Plaza and Trump Castle into bankruptcy in 1992. Trump Hotels filed again in 2004 and 2009.

Trump University settled a fraud lawsuit for $25 million in 2016.

Trump Steaks. Trump Airlines. Trump Shuttle. Trump Vodka. All failures. All used the brand to pull capital and sell dreams.

Trump himself never filed personal bankruptcy. His companies did. Repeatedly. Creditors took haircuts. Partners got wiped out.

The pattern:

Hype the Trump name. Pull in retail capital. Extract maximum value early through token launches, SPAC pops, public listings, and licensing fees. Leave retail holding 90-99% losses.

Family and insiders always positioned to benefit. Public investors always absorb the downside.

This is a repeatable extraction model.

If you are still holding any of these hoping for a recovery, good luck.

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[JW @fantini99]

@unusual_whales oh good!

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[JW @fantini99]

@unusual_whales Finally facing justice

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

Anderson Cooper shares some memories of being on "The Late Show."

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: RJ Reynolds, one of the largest U.S. tobacco companies and maker of Camel and Newport cigarettes, donated $5 million to Trump.

Days later, company executives reportedly met with him at Mar-a-Lago to push for looser flavored vape regulations, after which the FDA changed its policy, per NYT

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

I asked former IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel for comment. He writes: “I am unaware of a single precedent where the IRS has agreed in advance to permanently forgo examination of previously filed tax returns for a specific person or business. Whether you are the President or Joe the Plumber, people expect the same tax rules and enforcement framework to apply to everybody.”

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

FLASH: DOJ expands settlement in Trump-IRS leak suit to cover audits of all tax returns filed by Trump, family members, companies and trusts. Waiver of IRS' claims contained in addendum signed by AAG Blanche that was not in agreement released Monday https://t.co/i8G1AQc9W4

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

The endless parade of corrupt self-dealing marches on. Trump is going to take almost $2 billion in taxpayer money - without any appropriation from Congress - to set up a slush fund to line the pockets of his political allies. This is Third World tinpot regime stuff.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

This is extraordinary. I've been a professional investor for decades and I haven't made this many trades in my career.

https://t.co/RUwgpQxnor

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump purchased up to $630,000 worth of Palantir, $PLTR, during the first three months of the year.

In March alone, Trump made at least seven purchases of Palantir totalling as much as $530,000.

A month later, Trump literally wrote on TruthSocial: “Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment."

[John Bresnahan @bresreports]

3,700 trades by a sitting president

[JW @fantini99]

@TheRewatchables No. It was the best acting I've ever seen.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

The kind of quote that used to end political careers

[JW @fantini99]

What are we doing?

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Trump: "Americans' financial situation: I don't think about anybody."

[JW @fantini99]

@unusual_whales oh good!

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Ashley St. Clair confirmed the WH runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time.

[JW @fantini99]

@KylePorterNS Si Woo’s second shot on hole 2 Thursday. If you haven’t seen it, go watch it.