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Trump and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from crypto, while the investors they've wooed have taken a $2.3 billion hit
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Valuy lemmy.zip Valuy@lemmy.zip
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WhoIzDisIz lemmy.today WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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Whomp whomp

At least the leopards are eating each other this time.

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db0 lemmy.dbzer0.com db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-09
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I'm not even USian and even I know anything Trump puts his name on, is basically shite. The level of propaganda being swallowed by USians is just absurd.

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Jhex lemmy.world Jhex@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-28
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I'm not even USian and even I know anything Trump puts his name on, is basically shite. The level of propaganda being swallowed by USians is just absurd.

makes sense when you consider that greed, "fuck you got mine", and celebrity worship are core tenets of American culture

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Kirp123 lemmy.world Kirp123@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-06
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If the name Trump is attached to anything it just tells me not to touch it. It's like a biohazard sign.

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Saprophyte lemmy.world Saprophyte@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
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But they're not investing in Trump crypto... This is literally a way to pay Trump. It's foreign governments and influential families that need favors from him. It's not poor investors losing their savings, it's rich assholes and governments giving trump money out in the open.

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Zombie feddit.uk Zombie@feddit.uk
Joined: 2024-06-01
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Man steals £2.3 billion, victims lose £2.3 billion.

It's a strange way to write a subheadline. I thought they were all about removing redundant wording?

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scops reddthat.com scops@reddthat.com
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I'm not even USian and even I know anything Trump puts his name on, is basically shite. The level of propaganda being swallowed by USians is just absurd.

I'm sure there are some dopes who buy his crap at face value, but anyone spending real money on it knows it for what it is: bribe money

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yesman lemmy.world yesman@lemmy.world
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See, conservatives do believe in redistribution of wealth.

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SirSamuel lemmy.world SirSamuel@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-05
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But they're not investing in Trump crypto... This is literally a way to pay Trump. It's foreign governments and influential families that need favors from him. It's not poor investors losing their savings, it's rich assholes and governments giving trump money out in the open.

I was going to make a joke about misspelling "patsy" as investor, but damn you're right.

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Null User Object lemmy.world nulluser@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-08
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Tell me that you haven't been paying any attention for the last decade, without telling me that you haven't been paying any attention for the last decade.

If Trump was putting his name behind it, Elrgdawy recalls thinking, “it must be a legitimate investment.”

Nailed it.

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naught sh.itjust.works naught@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-03
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Man steals £2.3 billion, victims lose £2.3 billion. It's a strange way to write a subheadline. I thought they were all about removing redundant wording?

I mean technically he didn't even steal anything.

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AngryCommieKender lemmy.world AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
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I'm not even USian and even I know anything Trump puts his name on, is basically shite. The level of propaganda being swallowed by USians is just absurd.

Have you ever seen Fox News? It's on TVs in public fucking everywhere. I miss having an IR blaster in my phone, and I'm certain the phone companies took them away because of people like me that would turn off the TV repeatedly rather than listen to that shit.

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krisevol lemmus.org krisevol@lemmus.org
Joined: 2026-03-16
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That's how all crypto works

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egrets lemmy.world egrets@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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But they're not investing in Trump crypto... This is literally a way to pay Trump. It's foreign governments and influential families that need favors from him. It's not poor investors losing their savings, it's rich assholes and governments giving trump money out in the open.

It's not poor investors losing their savings

It's both. Trump has actively encouraged buy-in and credibly been accused of having first let key investors in on the ground floor, so the value skyrockets when it's announced, the insiders sell at substantial profit, and the MAGA marks see the bottom fall out of their "investment" shortly afterwards.

I'm not sympathetic with the victims, but it's still predatory.

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ScoffingLizard lemmy.dbzer0.com ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-05-04
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Have you ever seen Fox News? It's on TVs in public fucking everywhere. I miss having an IR blaster in my phone, and I'm certain the phone companies took them away because of people like me that would turn off the TV repeatedly rather than listen to that shit.

You might try a Flipper. The open cars and change jukeboxes. IR, RF, and GHz frequencies.

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