Three days before Donald J. Trump is sworn into office, the President elect released an official TRUMP memecoin which soared in value.
One day prior to his inauguration his wife Melania released an official MELANIA memecoin. From thin air these "coins" had a value over $10 billion.
We are now in the upside down. This is not your father's political Red Team. It's not even his son's.
Update 1-21-25: The pastor who offered the benediction at Trump II, the digital Caligula's coronation started his own memecoin, $LORENZO. Trump did say it's the golden age of America. What better way to kick it off than minting golden calves?
Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of robbers.”
Update 1-24-25: WallStreetonParade tackled the Trump memecoin grift.