BREAKING: TRUST TRUMP? Investors in Trump’s crypto products have lost at least $4.7 BILLION in value after he personally urged his loyal followers to buy them! Donald Trump told his followers to buy. And they sure listened. Now investors in Trump’s sprawling crypto empire have LOST at least $4.7 BILLION in value, according to a sweeping new analysis by the consumer watchdog Public Citizen. The biggest disaster is Trump’s own $TRUMP meme coin, which he personally promoted when it launched just before his second inauguration. “GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW,” the president urged his supporters. They did. The coin briefly soared above $73 as buyers rushed in. It has since lost more than 95 percent of its peak value. Public Citizen estimates that roughly ONE MILLION small investors who bought $TRUMP are now sitting on a combined $3.2 billion in losses. And all that money didn’t simply disappear. Public Citizen says much of it effectively changed hands. A relatively small group that got in early and sold at a profit made billions, while a much larger group of later buyers was left holding coins worth far less than they paid. Just 1 percent of the crypto wallets that came out ahead accounted for about $2.7 billion, roughly 80 percent of all the profits. In other words, a small group made a killing. A much bigger group got burned. And $TRUMP is only part of the carnage. Public Citizen estimates investors have lost at least $1 billion in value on World Liberty Financial’s $WLFI token. Trump Media shareholders have taken another estimated $450 million paper loss from the company’s cryptocurrency holdings. Buyers of three editions of Trump’s $99 digital trading cards have watched their collective value plunge about 76 percent. Meanwhile, Trump himself reported making at least $1.4 billion from crypto ventures in 2025. We’re reminded of a line from Animal House that comes uncomfortably close to summing this up. Flounder is crying over his brother’s wrecked car, and Otter tells him with a smile: “You f*cked up … You trusted us.” Except this wasn’t a frat-house prank. Trump used the immense trust and loyalty his political followers placed in him to promote financial products from which he personally stood to make a fortune. They put their hard-earned money at risk. His own financial interests were very different. For sure, much of that $4.7 billion represents paper losses for people who still hold the assets, so their value could rise again. Public Citizen makes estimates, and doesn't audit every investor’s account. Still, that doesn't change the ugly bottom line we see today. Trump once dismissed cryptocurrency as “not money” whose value was “based on thin air.” Then he figured out how to turn his followers’ trust in him into very real money, their fates be damned. Sorry, Flounder.