Public Citizen Says Trump-Linked Crypto Ventures Cost Investors $4.7 Billion

A U.S. consumer advocacy group says crypto ventures tied to Donald Trump and his family have left investors at least $4.7 billion underwater, a toll that is largely unrealized.

Public Citizen, in a report published August 27, tallied losses across five products: the Trump Digital Trading Cards NFTs, the $TRUMP meme coin, the World Liberty Financial $WLFI token, the USD1 stablecoin, and Trump Media’s digital-asset treasury, according to the group’s analysis.

Meme Coin and Token Losses The $TRUMP meme coin accounts for the largest share. Public Citizen estimates buyers are down about $3.2 billion, with analytics firm Nansen finding roughly one million of about 1.6 million Solana wallets that bought the token are underwater.

The top 1% of winning wallets captured about $2.7 billion, or 80% of all gains, the report says. That continues a pattern BlockchainReporter previously detailed in its coverage of the TRUMP token’s collapse and the retail losses that followed.