If you invested $10,000 in Bitcoin, Trump meme coin, and gold when Trump took office, here's what you'd have today
If you invested $10,000 in Bitcoin, Trump meme coin, and gold when Trump took office, here's what you'd have today.
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January 20, 2025. Donald Trump walks back into the White House. Bitcoin is touching $109,000. Gold is steady at $2,697 an ounce. And a meme coin bearing the president's name is a few days old and trading around $35, already down sharply from its launch peak of $74.
Six months on, those three assets have gone in three completely different directions. Here is what $10,000 in each one looks like today.
On inauguration day, Bitcoin opened around $102,000. A $10,000 investment bought roughly 0.098 BTC. Today, with Bitcoin trading near $60,000, that position is worth approximately $5,880, a loss of just over 41%.
The irony runs deep. Trump entered office as the most crypto-friendly president in U.S. history. He signed executive orders supporting the industry, established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and pushed through the GENIUS Act for stablecoins.
Bitcoin still lost nearly half its value on his watch. Rising Treasury yields, institutional profit-taking, and selling pressure tied to Strategy's $14 billion unrealized loss position have weighed heavily throughout his term.
Gold was the quiet winner nobody put in their inauguration-day portfolio. At $2,697 per ounce on January 20, $10,000 bought 3.71 ounces. Today gold trades around $4,110, making that position worth approximately $15,248, a gain of about 52%.
The driver is everything Trump's presidency brought with it: tariff wars, geopolitical tension, U.S.-Iran military strikes, and persistent inflation keeping the Fed cautious. Every time uncertainty spiked, gold climbed. The metal hit an all-time high of $5,597 in January 2026 before pulling back. For an asset dismissed as boring, it has been the standout trade of the cycle.
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The TRUMP meme coin launched two days before inauguration day and peaked at $74.27 within 48 hours. By January 20 it had already crashed to around $35. A $10,000 investment bought roughly 285 coins. Today those coins are worth approximately $430, a loss of 96%.
Nearly one million people bought the coin. Analytics firm Nansen found that their combined losses total $3.81 billion. Trump himself cleared more than $635 million from the same token . The trade worked out for one side of the table.
Six months of the most crypto-friendly administration in American history: Bitcoin down 41%, gold up 52%, Trump Coin down 96%. The market rarely gives you the story you expect.
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This story was originally published by TheStreet on Jul 9, 2026, where it first appeared in the MARKETS section. Add TheStreet as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
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