Did Trump intend to pump treasury yields for personal gains?
The Trump family is likely to walk out of the government with $20 — $40 billion(or more) in wealth at the end of Trump’s term.
If you think otherwise, you're just not paying attention.
Contrary to what most people think, Trump is not “Pro crypto” he's a USD BULL and always will be. Make no mistake though, he doesn't care much about short-term devaluation of the USD because who cares when you're just getting the USD at a discount as a result and that offsets inflation cost to start with?
I came across a report some time back about Trump-backed crypto project's plans to launch a stablecoin but didn't read much into it until recently.
For those who don't already know, Trump has a crypto company that has had its token on sale for a while now. It's concluded second phase sale brought the total raised to $550 million for 25% of the 100 billion max token supply.
On paper, this places the project's fully diluted valuation(FDV) at $5 billion given that's its phase two sales price was at a premium of $0.05 per token.
There's been a couple of critics here and there since the launch of the project but generally the negative sentiments have not be heavy but it should be if people really paid attention.
The crypto project in mention is “World Liberty Finance” and the tokens sold has the ticker “WLFI.”
Through world liberty finance, Trump and family have made several million-dollar investments into tokens like BTC, ETH, TRX, LINK, SUI, and Ondo and have heavily promoted some — ETH.
What could be more unethical than a President with direct investments into an industry he's actively easing its regulations?
Don't get me wrong, am all for easing the restrictions on crypto but I also believe we could have done just fine having them all against us, so it begs the question of what Trump stands to gain from giving the industry some breathing space?
World Liberty Finance Stablecoin Launch: USD1
Remember when I said Trump is a USD BULL? I believe I've previously called him “Pro USD” on older articles even before learning about the world liberty finance stablecoin but now it just makes a lot of sense for anyone else to think same.
World Liberty Financial Inc. (“WLFI”), the developer of a pioneering DeFi protocol and governance platform inspired by President Donald J. Trump, today announced its plans to launch USD1, a stablecoin redeemable 1:1 for the US dollar (USD).
WLFI’s USD1 will be 100% backed by short-term US government treasuries, US dollar deposits, and other cash equivalents. Initially, USD1 tokens will be minted on the Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) blockchains, with plans to expand to other protocols in the future. Each token is intended to maintain a value of $1 USD, fully backed by a reserve portfolio audited regularly by a third-party accounting firm.
“USD1 provides what algorithmic and anonymous crypto projects cannot—access to the power of DeFi underpinned by the credibility and safeguards of the most respected names in traditional finance,” said Zach Witkoff, WLFI co-founder. “We’re offering a digital dollar stablecoin that sovereign investors and major institutions can confidently integrate into their strategies for seamless, secure cross-border transactions.” — Businesswire March 25, 2025
As of today, according to Lookonchain, DWF Labs has added liquidity for USD1, making it tradable and based on data from Coingecko, it's marketcap is currently $12M.
Some important things to note here is that word liberty finance(WLFI) has always originally been after stablecoins payments, lending and borrowing as the product focus. Although it's often called a DeFi project there's nothing decentralized about it and most profits are channeled to the Trump family. 75% of tokens sales profits and 60% of revenue.
A stablecoin launch, that is backed by US Treasuries is certainly a good incentive to pump treasury yields. Tether already makes a good $13 billion yearly for its stablecoin business, surely Trump would love to have his stablecoin business as the one dominating said industry.
It would also interest you to know that the United States Justice department has disbanded its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and ordering prosecutors to narrow crypto investigations to focus on drug cartels and terrorist groups, according to a memo seen by Reuters — reports
Of course, the reason for this move is tied to Trump’s executive order that calls for the government to help ensure that both individuals and private sector companies can access "open blockchain networks without persecution" — based on the report linked above.
Certainly, this gives the Trump family ease to do whatever they want through their crypto company, no? More Crimes!
These events all point to the fact that the Trump family is going to attempt to leaverage all it's crypto activities to acquire huge USD positions and a growing treasury yield is really just a huge plus for the business.
Looking at all crypto launches and projects associated with Trump, it's an easy estimate to conclude that the Trump family will amass significant wealth, up to $40B(or more) through crypto before Trump exits the white house.
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Not bad for a guy who was $485 million in the hole leveraging his assets to stay afloat. There had to be some heavy hitters out there plying money to the media to keep that quiet while Trump infused into the minds of millions that he had one hundred million of his own money to run his campaign leaving him beholding to no one. Now chances are likelier than not he got the money from Peter Thiel.
My own opinion on the crypto situation will be it's a way for him to peddle influence illegally behind the door. Now, as I said, it's just an opinion and even I am still skeptical of that but what leans toward that is the fact the Trump can only take in so much before it become obvious in the face that something illegal is up. He's already jacked three billion plus into Ivanka and Jared coffer, and billions more into his brother Josh investment firm. Without taking it into his own accounts, which would catch the thief red handed, he needs another avenue to go down.
What I think he intends to do, as I said, just an opinion, is decouple jobs from China and put them where his globalist buddies want them to go....but they won't be coming back here for sure. Maybe a select few for national security concerns, as was seen with pharmaceuticals, for instance, during covid. If I had to guess where those jobs will be going, some will be going to places in and around LA when it gets rebuilt to bring some job infrastructure into position there. I highly doubt that area, or any other devastated area's with high end clientele attached close, will be built back anywhere near similar to what it was before, and will be more exclusive to the elites than ever.
My thoughts on it are when they talk about the redistribution of the wealth where the rich get wealthier, which you hear mentioned all the time, there is an angle to that of reparations to poor countries of wealth (not in any way close to the sense of any real wealth, more likely just enough to eliminate hunger, keep a shack over their heads), of that which the elites have always claimed the poverty come at the hands of western civilization. It's a win-win for both sides, the elites will get wealthier off the backs of the impoverished while patting themselves on the back for alleviating their total impoverishment. Trump and his family will reap the benefits for having helped them obtain their goals. In the end he will more than likely go down as the most hated man in the world for all his deceptions, and for that, it had to pay well.
I don't know enough to comment on most of the things you're highlighted here but I do agree that he's really setting his reputation on fire, I just wonder how this affects people around or close to him in these times.
He running the presidency like a mafia boss, I would assume those around him getting rich off what he's doing are fine, the others are more than likely afraid of him.