{"id":45113,"date":"2026-07-06T07:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45113"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:39:35","slug":"currency-always-has-costs-ctd-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/07\/06\/currency-always-has-costs-ctd-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Currency Always Has Costs, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers paying attention may remember <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/05\/23\/currency-always-has-costs-ctd-59\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I was a little confused<\/a> as to whether the Trump family was doing well with their crypto investments. This report suggests that they <em>are being successful<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency-related income in his latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oge.gov\/web\/oge.nsf\/News+Releases\/B8B9EA45F5EB86EC85258E2600701B77?opendocument\">annual financial disclosure<\/a>\u00a0released Tuesday, with digital assets emerging as the largest source of his personal earnings during his second term.<\/p>\n<p>The 927-page disclosure, covering 2025 and filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, shows Trump earned more than $500 million from World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company he co-founded in 2024 with his sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. He also reported another $635 million in income tied to sales of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/trump-crypto-meme-coin-profit-losses\">$TRUMP meme coin<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/trump-financial-disclosure-crypto-income\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MS NOW<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That opens the question of whether <strong>MAGA<\/strong> will stick with Trump, and how <strong>MAGA<\/strong> investors have done with the President&#8217;s memecoin, <strong>$TRUMP<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s a lifetime chart:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45114\" style=\"width: 1665px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45114\" class=\"wp-image-45114 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?resize=800%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?w=1655&amp;ssl=1 1655w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?resize=1024%2C547&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?resize=768%2C410&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?resize=1536%2C820&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?resize=150%2C80&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?resize=250%2C134&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-05-20.48.43-coinmarketcap.com-4c65c3ed98bf.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/official-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CoinMarketCap<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From greater than $40\/coin at the beginning to July 5th&#8217;s $1.71, it&#8217;s been downhill since then, and so it has been for the Trump investors. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chrisdmowrey\/status\/2072098606782529707?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another report<\/a> driving the point home.<\/p>\n<p>But will that affect support for him from <strong>MAGA<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not. Most <strong>MAGA<\/strong> investors won&#8217;t monitor financial disclosures, they won&#8217;t trust liberal sources such as <em><strong>MS NOW<\/strong><\/em>, and conservative sources will not mention this inconvenient fact.<\/p>\n<p>All Trump has to fear are <strong>MAGA<\/strong> leaders who are still angry at suppression of the <strong>Epstein Files<\/strong>. If they choose to pick this disclosure up and run with it, it might be disaster for Trump&#8217;s allies.<\/p>\n<p>And cryptocurrency claims more victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers paying attention may remember I was a little confused as to whether the Trump family was doing well with their crypto investments. This report suggests that they are being successful: President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency-related income in his latest\u00a0annual financial disclosure\u00a0released Tuesday, with digital \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/07\/06\/currency-always-has-costs-ctd-60\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45119,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45113\/revisions\/45119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}