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Trump extraction timeline
Built from the Gold Paper, White House orders, SEC actions, public disclosures, company statements, blockchain analysis, and major investigations including MASTR, WSJ, ABC, and Fortune.
12/16/2021
Melania entered the NFT business. The monetization phase had already started.
12/15/2022
Trump launched his first NFT trading cards at $99 each. Politics became digital merchandise.
12/2023
The Georgia mugshot became another product. The MugShot Edition tied 47 card purchases to a suit fragment and a Mar a Lago dinner invite.
08/27/2024
The “America First” NFT collection followed. Buy 15 cards, get a piece of the debate suit. Buy 75, get a gala dinner. Brand loyalty was now a purchase tier.
09/16/2024
World Liberty Financial was unveiled on X Spaces. The Gold Paper later showed the structure plainly: 100 billion $WLFI, 30% to co founders, no profit rights for holders, 22.5 billion $WLFI plus 75% of net protocol revenue to DT Marks DEFI LLC, and 7.5 billion plus 25% to AMG and WC Digital Fi LLC.
The same document’s supporting team listed 12 people, including 4 Trumps and 3 Witkoffs.
10/15/2024
The $WLFI sale went live. Buyers quickly learned what the fine print meant: governance cosplay for the public, cash flow for insiders.
11/25/2024
Justin Sun entered with $30 million while facing SEC fraud pressure. He later said his total commitment rose to $75 million and became an adviser.
01/16/2025
Four days before the inauguration, a UAE linked firm associated with Sheikh Tahnoon signed a $500 million deal for a 49% stake in World Liberty. The deal did not surface publicly until February 2026. Months later came the chip approvals.
01/17/2025
$TRUMP launched 3 days before the inauguration. Only 200 million coins entered circulation. 800 million stayed with CIC Digital and Fight Fight Fight.
Within 2 weeks, estimates put trading fees at roughly $86 million to $100 million while about 200000+ Meteora wallets were already losing.
01/19/2025
$MELANIA launched and extended the family memecoin cycle. Both tokens later crashed hard from their early peaks.
01/19 to 01/20/2025
During inauguration days, World Liberty’s fundraising accelerated toward nearly $300 million.
In January, the fine print also changed so the Trump side took control through a 60% stake in the controlling entity. The family position tightened as money rushed in.
02/26/2025
The SEC paused its civil fraud case against Justin Sun, citing public interest.
03/06/2025
Trump signed Executive Order 14233 creating the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and the United States Digital Asset Stockpile. The government was now formally directed to hold BTC while the family was already deep in crypto.
03/24/2025
Trump Media partnered with Crypto com to launch crypto and “Made in America” investment products through Truth Fi.
03/25/2025
World Liberty announced USD1, backed by Treasuries, dollars, and cash equivalents, after raising more than $550 million from $WLFI sales.
03/28/2025
Trump pardoned BitMEX co founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed. Gregory Dwyer and the BitMEX operating entity were cleared too. Another crypto legal burden vanished.
All 3 received presidential pardons. Then the company itself was pardoned. $100 million in fines cancelled.
03/31/2025
Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Hut 8 launched American Bitcoin. Hut 8 folded most of its mining operations into the venture for an 80% stake. America First? Hut 8 is canadian.
04 2025
MASTR, described as Abu Dhabi based, bought $25 million of World Liberty tokens.
04/23/2025
Trump offered the top 220 $TRUMP buyers a private gala dinner. By then, Chainalysis estimated the coin had already generated at least $350 million in fees for connected entities.
05/01/2025
USD1 was selected to close MGX’s $2 billion investment in CZs Binance. The stablecoin stopped being a slogan and became a transaction rail. MGX is chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon.
05/12/2025
The dinner contest closed with $147.6 million in time weighted $TRUMP holdings across the top 220. Since launch,
592962 wallets had lost about $3.9 billion, while large holders dominated the upside.
05/22/2025
The dinner happened. More than half of the 220 holders were likely based outside the United States.
Justin Sun won first place with an $18.5 million wallet and posted a video from the Executive Office Building the day before. By then, the coin’s operators had earned about $320.19 million in fees, more than 60 large wallets had made close to $1.5 billion, and about 600000 smaller wallets were down $3.9 billion. Presidential access had become a leaderboard prize.
05/27/2025
Trump Media announced a $2.5 billion raise to build a bitcoin treasury: $1.5 billion in stock and $1 billion in convertible notes.
06/14/2025
The public financial disclosure made the machine visible in numbers.
More than $600 million in income across crypto, golf, licensing, and other ventures.
Included were $57.35 million from World Liberty token sales,
$1.16 million from Trump NFTs,
about $216700 from Melania NFT licensing,
about $320 million in estimated $TRUMP fees,
and more than $400 million taken in by the family from World Liberty.
Add watches, sneakers, fragrances, and the Greenwood Bible.
06/25 to 06/27/2025
World Liberty said it was planning a stablecoin audit and a new app. Then Aqua 1, a UAE based fund with a minimal public footprint, announced a $100 million $WLFI purchase, becoming the largest publicly known investor at the time.
07/16/2025
Holders voted to make $WLFI tradable. The family’s token position moved one step closer to open market monetization.
10/23/2025
Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao. Binance had already boosted the ecosystem by accepting USD1 for the MGX transaction. Several MASTR tweets about Binance-Trump- CZ deals went viral.
10/28/2025
Investigation estimated about $802 million in crypto income for the Trump organization in the first half of 2025 alone.
Roughly $463 million came from World Liberty token sales. About $336 million came from the $TRUMP memecoin.
01/07/2026
World Liberty sought a national trust bank charter focused on USD1 operations.
01/14/2026
Pakistan signed an agreement with a World Liberty affiliate to explore USD1 for cross border payments.
03/13/2026
World Liberty offered “guaranteed direct access” to its business development team for investors willing to lock about $5 million in $WLFI.
Under the project terms, 75% of new token sale revenue flowed to the Trump family, so a $5 million buy effectively routed about $3.75 million their way.
That is the stack.
NFTs.
Mugshot monetization.
Debate suit monetization.
$WLFI extraction.
$TRUMP.
$MELANIA.
Inauguration week token frenzy.
USD1 stablecoin infrastructure.
Dinner access for whales.
American Bitcoin.
Truth. Fi and crypto ETFs.
Bitcoin treasury plays.
Foreign capital.
Pardons.
Pay for access.
It was and is a full extraction machine built around brand, office, access, loyalty, speculation, and political proximity.
I am glad people are finally waking up.
But the Witkoffs and the Trumps will keep going until they all end up behind bars.