Trump's Crypto Empire COLLAPSES as Billions Vanish

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]Now everybody know that Trump has been making billions ever since he got back in office for the second time. How much you might ask? Billions on billions on billions. Now we know he's been making billions while the middle class have been suffering under Trump's economy. If you looked around at the price of gas and inflation and the cost of everything, it's no surprise that people in the middle class are hurting right now. It's new reports that comes out that investors of his crypto coin have some issues. They feel that the money that they put into his crypto coin is a scam. It's fraud is what they're alleging in this newly filed lawsuit.

[00:00:45]Let's talk about it.

[00:00:46]>> So largely, not exclusively, but largely Donald Trump's boon financially in the presidency is due to crypto. So if you've not followed this, the Trump family started a crypto bank called World Liberty Financial. They very quickly secured a number of investments including from the United Arab Emirates.

[00:01:08]Donald Trump has already himself netted 350 million dollars from sales of the crypto token issued by World Liberty Financial. 350 million dollars. He has also sold, he and his family have sold 40 a 49% stake, so they are still the controlling money, but a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial and a crypto bank to a firm backed by the United Arab Emirates royal family and that is estimated to have netted Donald Trump 200 million dollars. That's just in crypto. This is an extraordinary implosion of the relationship between crypto billionaire Justin Sun and Trump family's cryptocurrency company. Now Sun was a major supporter of World Liberty Financial back from the early days. He had cultivated these deep ties with the Trump family, but now he is suing the Trump family's flagship crypto venture for allegations of fraud. He is claiming that World Liberty's managers see the project as a golden opportunity to leverage the Trump brand to profit through fraud. Now the lawsuit also says Sun has invested roughly 45 million dollars into the company and he's accusing the company of freezing his investments in the firm's digital token to try and ratchet up pressure on Sun to promote another one of the company's offerings. The lawsuit also alleges that World Liberty engaged in an illegal scheme to seize property causing Sun and his companies to incur hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

[00:02:38]>> Now Justin Sun is no longer going with the MAGA gang. He wants his money back and the Trump coin he invested millions in is now worth almost nothing. Let's take a look at the breakdown of how much money he been making since in office. We know he hasn't been looking out for our pockets, but he's for sure been looking out for his own. Now two years into term two, look what happens. His net worth goes from 2.3 billion dollars to 6.5 billion dollars. All of this is crypto in one form or another. He has become [music] the crypto king even though during Trump 1.0 he was against crypto.

[00:03:19]He thought crypto was kind of a scam, which it kind of is as we know. So where did the money come from? He had four four billion dollars, he and his family of profits.

[00:03:29]Three billion of it came from crypto and I will tell you there are so many transactions here, so many structures, it made my head hurt even trying to understand it. But just to give you an example, he took Trump Media, which is the company he started but to create Truth Social and it raised a bunch of money from investors and they went out and bought a whole bunch of of crypto with that. He sold meme coins.

[00:03:53]I'm going to talk more about this in a minute, but remember the dollar Trump, dollar Milania coins, all that contributed profit. So crypto, crypto, crypto, crypto all the way. Made some money from finances. This is Jared raising all of his money from the Middle East and the profits that are anticipated from it. And then there were also some benefits he got. For example, he raised the the admission fee at Mar-a-Lago from 100,000 dollars to a million dollars. The money he took from the law firms and the other companies as part of his lawsuit campaign, the Qatari jet, but crypto is really what dominates the three billion dollars that he added to his net worth.

[00:04:31]>> That's a lot of money, but he's running into some issues because it's looking like a scam, it's looking like fraud is what they're alleging and Justin Sun is the first one, but but it's most likely going to be more people that got some concerns as they see that the money is just a funnel into his organization. Is this a get rich quick scheme? I don't know, but a lot of people are speculating, hey, you can actually get scammed by the president as well. Aren't the news saying that you don't have to?

[00:05:03]So imagine investing in a crypto project only to find out that the people running it are literally borrowing money against your investment.

[00:05:11]So this one involves Donald Trump and his family. So you can see that the headline says Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture faces investor backlash. So come in, let me tell you what's going on. So the Trump family launched a crypto project called World Liberty with a token called W L F I. It has already raised around 715 million dollars from investors. So it isn't some small meme coin that's just floating around Reddit. We're talking about serious money, serious players. In fact, crypto billionaire Justin Sun has bought tens of millions worth of these tokens. So here's where things get a little bit messy because World Liberty has taken out a 75 million dollar loan using its own token as collateral. So let me translate that into normal human language. They're basically gone to a lender and said, "Here is our crypto token as security, give us cash." That sounds fine until you realize that if the token price falls, that collateral gets weaker and in extreme cases it can be liquidated meaning sold. Guess what's already happening? The token is down 16% in a month. So investors are thinking, "Hmm, hold on. Wait, are you putting downward pressure on your own asset?"

[00:06:26]But it gets worse. Justin Sun, one of the biggest backers, has now turned on them publicly and he has literally called the project World Tyranny. He's also accused them of treating the crypto community like a personal ATM. So that's not some random Twitter troll, that's a major investor going rogue. And here's the part that regulators would normally be all over. The same ecosystem is issuing the token, borrowing against it and connected to the lending platform used. So that's basically like running a casino, being the bank and being the house gambler. So why are investors worried? Well, if the loan ever goes wrong, the tokens used as collateral could be dumped on the market meaning that prices fall further, more panic selling and suddenly you've got a self-inflicted crash. So even if they say there's no liquidation risk, crypto history tells us that phrase ages very badly. And this isn't just about one project, this is about something much bigger cuz crypto governance is still the wild west. Even major investors don't always have real control. And political power plus crypto money is a very messy overlap, especially when a sitting US president has financial ties to the project. It shows that retail investors are still last in line because when things go wrong, they are still the ones holding the bag. So the next time that someone tells you that crypto is about decentralization and transparency, just remember sometimes it's just new tech and the same old power games. What do you make of this? You tell me. Put your comments below. Let's talk about it. This is Where Is the Money. Talk to you soon.