Investing.com– President Donald Trump largely brushed off questions about adding billions of dollars to his personal wealth through the launch of the $TRUMP memecoin before his inauguration.
Responding to questions from a reporter about the memecoin, Trump confirmed that he had launched the memecoin, but claimed to not have too much knowledge over having personally benefited from its performance.
“I don’t know about benefited, I don’t where it is, I don’t know much about it other than I launched it, I heard it was very successful,” Trump said in a White House event on Tuesday.
When responding to a reporter telling him that he had made “several billion dollars” from the memecoin, Trump said “several billion? That’s peanuts for these guys,” although it was not immediately clear who he was referring to.
launched to trader fanfare last week, coming just days before Trump’s inauguration on…
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