Bitcoin Dropped today to around $62,000. This is more than 50% below the October 2025 peak above $126,000. The entire crypto market has lost more than $1 trillion in value since the peak.
This is bad news for anyone investing real money in crypto. It’s also bad news, at least on paper, for the Trump family, whose fortunes are now heavily dependent on digital assets.
But Trump is not losing the way those who followed him in these investments are losing. not even close.
Here’s how the crypto crash is affecting every major family drama — and why the people you should really feel sorry for aren’t named Trump.
The family’s net worth reduced by one billion on paper
Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index showed The Trump family’s wealth declined from about $7.7 billion in early September to about $6.7 billion By the end of November 2025. The hole has deepened even further as Bitcoin continued to slide this spring.
It feels painful. it is. But the family started 2025 with crypto holdings worth essentially zero. Now his worth is in billions. The “loss” is actually less than the gain.
Let’s look at some examples.
TRUMP Memecoin is a graveyard for everyday investors
Trump’s own branded coin launched just before his second inauguration. CoinGecko shows it reached all-time high $44.28 – and now trading around $1.65. This is a 94% elimination in less than 18 months.
Anyone who bought near the top had their head handed to them. Meanwhile, an investigation by the Financial Times estimated the family’s profits from launching the coin at $362 million. He collected fees on the way. Investors collected the debris.
Melania’s coin is almost completely defaced
The First Lady’s coin reached above $13 the day after its launch. it is now trading About 7 cents on CoinGecko – 99% drop. That is not instability. That is evaporation.
Trump nevertheless added an estimated $65 million to his wealth from that token. Those who bought it added nothing to their portfolios other than a punitive tax-loss crop.
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World Liberty Financial collapsed – but the cash was already gone
WLFI launched in September 2025 at $0.30 and briefly traded as high as $0.33. Today it is around $0.057 – Down more than 80% from peak. Bloomberg reported in November that the paper value of the family’s Founder-token holdings had already lost billions, and they have declined further since then.
Here’s the kicker. A Wall Street Journal investigation The Trump family was found to have withdrawn at least $1.2 billion in real cash from World Liberty Financial over 16 months. That is not paper. He is banked. That includes $187 million received from an Abu Dhabi-linked investment firm four days before the inauguration.
US Bitcoin is down almost 91% from its all-time high
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. helped take the mining company public last September. The stock traded as high as $9.31 That month. it closed on friday 86 cents.
company also Records first-quarter net loss of $82 million in 2026, on top of a $59 million loss last quarter. Real businesses lose real money when Bitcoin falls. Welcome to Mining.
Trump media buys Bitcoin at the top
Truth Social Parents Achieved 11,542 Bitcoins at an average price of $118,522 per coin – About $1.37 billion in spot bitcoin, the centerpiece of a nearly $2 billion bet on bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities. The company also allocated an additional $300 million for its Bitcoin options strategy.
Bitcoin is now around $62,000. According to the company’s own filings, Trump Media’s stake was worth about $647 million at a $1.13 billion cost basis by the end of March 2026.
The stock has also taken a hit. DJT Close above $97 in March 2022. It traded around $8.27 on Friday – down more than 90% from the peak. Bloomberg reports Trump media Recorded a net loss of $405.9 million In the first quarter, mostly those linked to crypto holdings.
A special note to Trump supporters
In our deeply divided country, some readers will undoubtedly accuse me of Trump Derangement Syndrome for reporting this. But the thing is: I’ve been a financial journalist for 35 years. No It would be careless to inform about this.
I don’t remember any president of any party doing anything remotely like this. Sometimes.
A sitting president and his family made more than $1 billion from investments over which they have enormous regulatory influence. This is not a real estate empire or licensing deal that Trump built before taking office. This is a group of crypto ventures launched just before and during his second term.
The Trump family, like its investors, is suffering paper losses. But they got paid first – in fees, in advance wire transfers, in cash from selling tokens to early buyers, and in IPO proceeds. By the time prices began to fall, billions of dollars had already moved into family-controlled accounts.
That is not politics. These are the facts. And what is incredible is not that I am pointing it out. It’s like there are very few others.
