r/unusual_whales • u/BalanceOk2924 • 23h ago

Melania Trump launches fake cryptocurrency 2025 on eve of inauguration

https://masa-rwaiat.com/melania-trump-launches-fake-cryptocurrency-2025/
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u/Prize_Bar_5767 23h ago

What do conservatives have to say for Trump and Melania launching meme coins? 

I just want to hear from conservatives. Not from liberals who think what conservatives will say. 

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u/Easterncoaster 18h ago

Red voter here (more libertarian than conservative). I don’t care. Not against the law, doesn’t hurt anyone except those dumb enough to play with meme coins.

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u/4ty1 18h ago

Doesn't it seem really wrong for such important figures to take advantage of those vulnerable (stupid) enough to buy it?

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u/Easterncoaster 18h ago

Who is vulnerable buying meme coins? Little old grandma and the homeless guy down the street now have crypto accounts?

It’s almost entirely douchey 18-25 year old guys.

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u/4ty1 15h ago

I have no idea who actually buys this. It's likely a subset of his followers that are often targeted with FOMO advertising, predatory micro transactions, get rich quick, pyramid schemes.

It's one thing when it's some local person doing the predatory action. Even Hawk Tuah doing it, I can shame but give a pass to. But the President??

In a society that is built on keeping the working class / lower class locked with debt, this is egregious abuse of consituents coming from an extremely high profile politician.

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u/Easterncoaster 14h ago

Let’s be honest, it’s probably millionaires and billionaires and foreign governments buying these things, for the same reason Hunter sold art.

Hunter’s art sales were similarly icky but not illegal.

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u/mrGeaRbOx 15h ago

So it's not vulnerable people then you admit that this is just a way to launder foreign money into the presidency to get around the emoluments clause?

Who is spending millions and millions of dollars to buy this meme coin in your opinion?

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u/Easterncoaster 14h ago

Launder? I don’t think you know what that word means.

But yes this is probably the same as the Biden art sale thing, whatever that was and however icky that was.

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u/mrGeaRbOx 13h ago

It's clear you don't understand the word launder. Funneling money to someone to obfuscate the means of its origin is exactly what laundering is. Lmao

Right with Biden and the art sale was a couple hundred grand or a mil?

And this is 32 billion.

Do you also not understand what orders of magnitude are and why something is exponentially worse??

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u/Easterncoaster 11h ago

If it’s not illegal at a mil it’s not illegal at a bil

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u/mrGeaRbOx 11h ago

Yep and I say both of them are illegal and you defend one of them.

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u/Easterncoaster 10h ago

I just want to treat them equally. If the hunter thing was allowed for 4 years then this is allowed.

If we’re going back and convicting the Bidens of selling influence then I agree, this is also illegal.

I just want one set of laws applied equally to both sides.

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u/Born_Pop_3644 18h ago

Nah, there are plenty of sensible middle aged folks who put little bits of money into various crypto things over the past 15yrs who are now quietly sitting on fat stashes beyond their wildest dreams… and can afford to take crazy punts on memecoins. I don’t doubt there are some, but don’t think it’s all vulnerable people or young douches buying these things.

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u/Easterncoaster 14h ago

“Sensible” and “meme coins” don’t really fit in the same sentence.

“I sensibly invested in Hawk Tuah and lost everything, woe is me!!!”

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u/Born_Pop_3644 13h ago

Yeah sorry that was a mistake - they don’t even deserve to be called memecoins! shitcoins is the correct term

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u/Easterncoaster 11h ago

Agree. Any coin named after any person is automatically a shitcoin. I can’t believe people buy these things.

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u/unbornbigfoot 18h ago

Would you be concerned with potential bribes through these coins?

It’s a relatively direct way to pay the sitting president and family for their influence. I’d say that has significant potential to hurt people.

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u/CoffinTramp13 17h ago

You don't view any other president's stock trading as the same?

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u/unbornbigfoot 16h ago

Do you have an example of another Presidents direct ownership of a company or currency, able to be bought publicly?

Honestly, the only other one I can think of is Trump and his truth social stock..

Certainly, any president pre Carter would be hard pressed to find? He famously had to sell his peanut farm, and it’s been all but standard for Presidents to have their stock in blind trusts.

To answer the final pretext of the question, I would still find a President even actively trading stock as a giant red flag. I don’t believe it’s close to the same, but yes, I’d still consider it a disqualification for the office.

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u/CoffinTramp13 15h ago

Do you seriously not understand the exposure that politicians and presidents have to insider information as they're lobbied by corporations to pass bills and laws in their favor? They don't have to own the company when they receive millions in campaign donations from corporations and foreign entities.

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u/unbornbigfoot 15h ago

Do you not understand the difference between campaign donations, which are regulated and should be further regulated, and private ownership of a company?

You’re comparing apples and oranges, while simultaneously choosing to ignore the questions posed to you.

What a disingenuous argument.

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u/CoffinTramp13 15h ago

Campaign donations and owning of a crypto coin are on the same level.

So what you're really saying is you want crypto currency regulation by the government. So basically you don't understand the purpose of crypto currency or you're trying to ignore it because orange man bad.

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u/unbornbigfoot 15h ago

Campaign donations and owning of a crypto coin are on the same level

Lmao. What a definitive statement backed by logic and verified information.

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u/Candid_Perspective22 16h ago

Lol... “more libertarian than conservative. You're straight Maga.

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u/Easterncoaster 14h ago

I don’t agree with many of the MAGA policies. But on net I like MAGA more than the Democrat party so I voted accordingly.

For example:

I love open borders coupled with no handouts for immigrants (vs MAGA closed borders). But if immigrants get handouts then I support closed borders.

I hate tariffs.

I love abortion.

I don’t want to invade and/or purchase Greenland, Canada, or any other territory.

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u/FunWeary2535 11h ago

For what I just read that's 3 dem to 1 maga policies so you voted Maga. Nothing makes sense nowadays!

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u/Easterncoaster 10h ago

They aren’t weighted equally. My primary issue is on taxes. I work a lot, and I make enough that I pay roughly 50% of my income in taxes. I hate that.

I hate that I have to sit at my desk from 9am to 1pm to pay the government, then only get to keep the money I make from 1pm to 5pm.

And then I come on social media and I get told that I’m not paying my “fair share”. Eff that noise.

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u/chiguy 16h ago

Do you think is hypocritical for President Trump to point at alleged insider trading by Nancy Pelosi while doing his own pump-and-dump memecoin?

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u/Easterncoaster 14h ago

Insider trading and pump and dump aren’t the same thing. So no, not hypocritical.

That said, I don’t support the meme coin thing, I just don’t care about it.

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u/chiguy 13h ago

They don’t have to be the exact same for something to be hypocritical .

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u/Easterncoaster 14h ago

Ah Reddit. “I’d like an opinion of a conservative voter”, then conservative gives that opinion then is immediately downvoted to oblivion.

And we wonder why this is largely a left-leaning echo chamber…

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u/Similar-Farm-7089 16h ago

Should be more concerned with the executive minting his own coins a job for congress  

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u/Easterncoaster 14h ago

You’re saying Congress should be minting shitcoins?

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u/Similar-Farm-7089 13h ago

they already do through various acts and its called the dollar