{"id":46640,"date":"2026-08-29T06:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=46640"},"modified":"2026-08-29T06:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:13:22","slug":"trump-themed-meme-coin-tanks-95-in-minutes-as-traders-get-rugged-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=46640","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Themed Meme Coin Tanks 95% in Minutes as Traders Get Rugged: What Happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>A newly launched meme coin on Solana briefly attracted millions in trading activity after it appeared on a Trump-linked X account.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Digital Gold (GOLD) was published and promoted on the X account @realtrumpcoins1, which is associated with an official Trump collectible business. The promotion immediately attracted attention, but on-chain sleuths raised some enormous red flags that didn&#8217;t stop people from getting into it.<\/p>\n<p>Data from Lookonchain <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/2093543159125115389\">shows<\/a> that the developer initially controlled 600 million tokens, while 15 newly created wallets spent $18,657 to acquire another 224.5 million coins. Combined, these two addresses alone controlled roughly 82.45% of the entire supply.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, traders continued to pile in, with one wallet chasing GOLD near the top and losing over $62,000 in just seven minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The situation deteriorated rapidly as it typically does when such shady coins see the light of day, when the promotional posts <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/2093549577530200371\">disappeared<\/a> from the Trump-linked account, fueling suspicions that it had been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>GOLD plunged by more than 95% in a single minute, with its market cap plunging to under $2 million and then dumping again to $600,000.<\/p>\n<p>Lookonchain updated that the 15 wallets mentioned above dumped all 224.5 million GOLD for 3,178 SOL, worth approximately $330,000. This means that their original investment of $18,657 was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/2093551671272206514\">turned<\/a> into a $312,000 profit &#8211; or a 17x return.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, it was confirmed that the account was hacked, while the perpetrator <a href=\"https:\/\/lookonchain.com\/feeds\/70509\">claimed<\/a> to have generated more than $8.2 million from the fiasco. The figure is the hacker&#8217;s own claim and has now been independently verified.<\/p>\n<p>Official Trump (TRUMP), the meme coin indeed related to the POTUS, has been quite <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/meme-coin-trump-soars-20-daily-after-a-major-announcement-what-are-the-next-targets\/\">volatile<\/a> lately. It has posted several double-digit moves in either direction, but it was rejected at $3.00 yesterday despite a major announcement from the Korea Blockchain Week conference.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/trump-themed-meme-coin-tanks-95-in-minutes-as-traders-get-rugged-what-happened\/\">Trump-Themed Meme Coin Tanks 95% in Minutes as Traders Get Rugged: What Happened?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/trump-themed-meme-coin-tanks-95-in-minutes-as-traders-get-rugged-what-happened\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A newly launched meme coin on Solana briefly attracted millions in trading activity after it appeared on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}