TRUMP UNLEASHES A MEMECOIN—AND THE INTERNET LOSES ITS MIND Saturday morning, I woke up to a reality that felt more like a fever dream. Donald J. Trump, the man who turned American politics into high-stakes theater, had launched a cryptocurrency. And not just any crypto—a memecoin. The kind of digital token typically pumped by anonymous Twitter influencers and degenerate traders, not a former President of the United States. At first, the internet thought his accounts had been hacked. Surely, this had to be a hoax. But no—this was real. The coin’s name? Official Trump ($TRUMP). Launched at a mere $0.18, the price was immediately hijacked by crypto whales who piled in with millions, rocketing it to $7 within hours. By…

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