Members of President Donald Trump’s family have ties to businesses in sectors ranging from cryptocurrency and real estate to beverages and apparel lines.
The president’s promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick that undermined the industry’s credibility.
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.
Trump could multiply his estimated wealth if his family’s conglomerate suddenly sells its substantial ownership in the token, finance professor Leonard Kostovetsky says.
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.
Donald Trump's first week in office isn't over yet, but what the Republican president has done so far offers clues about how his next four years in the White House may unfold.
Yesterday, a Department of Homeland Security, Acting Secretary Benjamine Huffman, expanded the group of federal law enforcement officers who can investigate and apprehend the immigrants. It wasn't immediately clear how many officers would be reassigned to immigrant enforcement.
President Donald Trump and the first lady released their own cryptocurrencies. Experts compare them to Beanie Babies and dogecoin.
Trump's crypto push amounts to betting the entire U.S. financial system on imaginary money. What could go wrong?
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.