I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.
Edited 9d ago
The relative separation between World Liberty Financial and the Trump memecoin projects, both of whom are trying to develop defi trading platforms, may help to explain the chaos around the latter’s wallet launch announcement yesterday.
It is very plausible to me that Trump has sold his likeness to so many separate projects, not to mention his sons also using the “Trump” branding, that no one really knows what’s going on in aggregate.
However, it’s still not fully clear to me how the memecoin end of the business could launch a wallet using Trump’s name and likeness without the sons’ knowledge unless the original licensing agreement for the memecoin was extremely broad.
@molly0xfff I'm out of yarn, we should consider a fridge magnet kit edition.
@molly0xfff Nice work. What software are you using to generate that chart?
@molly0xfff i cannot prove (yet) but would bet a very large sum of money that DWF Labs was responsible for the #TrumpCoin launch and is also a shareholder in some of these companies
@molly0xfff it might be fun to add trump guitars, bibles and associated entities / players
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Great work Molly!
It is obvious the trumps don't do this by accident
@molly0xfff I appreciate this, but what I propose is to get detail down to the food service contract, and maintenance.
Maybe someone will call in sick on the day of the big crypto bash.
@molly0xfff “#Bitcoin (and other #crypto currencies) is like rat poison squared.” - Warren Buffett
@molly0xfff You're a superhero. This map is really clarifying.
@molly0xfff why are we calling them projects when what were dealing with here are scams? Call em what they are by their proper name, the trump family crypto scams.
However you look at it, it's just a house of cards. It's a grift, built on lies and deceit.
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Good work … and a money maze way more complex than the Trump-Bondi one I unearthed in 2016:
https://bsky.app/profile/johnmashey.bsky.social/post/3lnl7k2r3k223
@molly0xfff I think it could all be replaced with a picture of a guy in a black mask and black and white striped shirt holding a bag with a dollar sign on it
@molly0xfff They all look like they could be related.
@molly0xfff I had to look up Bill Zanker and found this little gem
“Among Zanker's numerous past ventures has been a failed education company, an ill-fated crowdfunding site that Trump promoted, **a back rub company** and a series of self-help courses.”
Oh, and he wanted to throw thousands of dollars from the top of the Empire State Building as a stunt
This diagram is of course limited to what is publicly disclosed, and you’ll see a few places where links are uncertain, and where LLCs’ operators are partially or completely unknown. The flow of money is also a very partial accounting.
WRT Trump selling/licensing his name: After the Great Financial Crisis, some of the Trump buildings declared bankruptcy. The family kept using the defense that "We didn't run that property, we just licensed the Trump name."
I expect they will be saying that again about some of these grifto-currency projects in a few years. "It wasn't us! We just licensed the name!"
@molly0xfff It’s somehow still possible [to write a scifi novel that shows] that Satoshi could burst the bubble all on his own
It’ll probably end up being a mysterious topic forever like JFK’s motorcade