If You Invested $1,000 in TRUMP Coin at Launch
If you invested $1,000 in the $TRUMP meme coin at its first full-day close on 18 January 2025, it was worth about $64 at the close on 12 October 2026, a loss of about 94%. Bought one year earlier, on 12 October 2025, the same $1,000 had become $297.
What your money in the TRUMP coin became
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Each line divides Yahoo Finance’s TRUMP-USD daily close (UTC) on 12 October 2026 by the close on the start date; Coin Metrics’ reference prices give results within about 6% of each one (their 19 January price is lower than Yahoo’s). Fixed at 12 October 2026, with no fees, spreads or taxes taken off.
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If you invested $1,000 in the $TRUMP meme coin at its first full-day close on 18 January 2025, it was worth about $64 at the close on 12 October 2026.
That is a loss of about 94% in under 21 months. The coin launched on Friday 17 January 2025 on the Solana blockchain, days before the 20 January presidential inauguration, according to Wikipedia and a Storyboard18 report from 20 January 2025.
| Put in $1,000 on | $TRUMP on 12 Oct 2026 | Bitcoin on 12 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Jan 2025 (first full-day close) | $64 | $783 |
| 19 Jan 2025 (highest close) | $41 | $809 |
| 12 Oct 2025 (1 year) | $297 | $710 |
Why “at launch” means 18 January. The coin started trading on 17 January, partway through that day, and prices in its first hours swung widely. Yahoo Finance’s daily history starts with the 18 January close, the first full day, so that is the launch price used here. Coin Metrics’ price for that day is within 0.5% of Yahoo’s.
How it is calculated from the first close
Divide the latest close by the first. $TRUMP closed at $28.73 on 18 January 2025 and $1.845 on 12 October 2026. The ratio is 0.0642, so $1,000 became about $64.
Coin Metrics agrees. Its reference prices for the same two days, $28.87 and $1.848, give about $64 too.
Crypto trades every day. The one-year start is 12 October 2025, and there are 633 daily closes in the window.
To get back to $1,000 from here the price would need to rise about 1,457%, from $1.845 to $28.73.
The first week, and the long slide after
The best close came on day two. On 19 January 2025 the coin closed at $45.50 on Yahoo’s data, and the $1,000 stake was worth $1,584. Coin Metrics’ price for that day was lower, $42.97, and its own highest daily price was $43.06 on 21 January; the two data firms disagree about the exact top.
The stake stayed at or above $1,000 for 8 days. The last one was 25 January 2025. After that it never got back.
Then the slide was steady. Here is the stake at a few month-ends, from Yahoo’s closes:
| Month-end | $1,000 from 18 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|
| 31 Jan 2025 | $839 |
| 28 Feb 2025 | $451 |
| 31 Mar 2025 | $349 |
| 30 Jun 2025 | $309 |
| 30 Sep 2025 | $257 |
| 31 Dec 2025 | $167 |
| 31 Mar 2026 | $105 |
| 30 Jun 2026 | $58 |
| 30 Sep 2026 | $71 |
The low came on 13 August 2026, at a close of $1.39, when the stake was worth about $49. From the 19 January 2025 high that is a fall of 96.9%, deeper than any other coin or stock on these pages. Coin Metrics puts its low on the same day.
A worked example from one year ago
Say you put $500 into $TRUMP at the close on 12 October 2025, at $6.21, after it had already fallen about 78% from its first close.
By 13 August 2026 it was worth about $112. The close that day was $1.39.
On 12 October 2026 the close was $1.845. Divide: $1.845 ÷ $6.21 = 0.297. Your $500 became about $148. Buying after a big fall did not stop the next one. The calculator’s one-year line gives the same 0.297 multiple for any amount.
Who holds the rest of the coins
Only part of the supply was for sale at the start. The coin’s official site and Wikipedia both say 200 million coins were available on day one, out of a total that grows to 1 billion over three years.
About 80% belongs to two Trump-linked companies, CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC, according to both sources. Those coins are released on a schedule spread over three years.
This matters for the price. As locked coins are released, the number of coins that can be sold grows, so the same demand is spread over more supply. This page does not try to measure how much of the fall came from that, because the release dates for each block are not stated in the sources we read.
The original data since 18 January 2025
The numbers come from 633 daily $TRUMP closes, 18 January 2025 to 12 October 2026, downloaded from Yahoo Finance on 13 October 2026, each matched with Coin Metrics’ daily reference price for the same date. On the median day the two differ by about 0.1%; on 19 January 2025, day two, they were 5.6% apart, the widest gap in the file.
The daily file, with both prices, the value of $1,000 and the percent below the high, is published as the TRUMP coin $1,000 data file.
The chart draws the stake on an ordinary scale, so the early spike and the slide to about $49 appear at their real size.
Almost all of the line sits below its starting point. A buyer on any of the first few days was ahead for at most a week.
When it fails: launch is not one price
“At launch” is not one price. On the first day the price swung widely within hours. A buyer in those hours could have paid much less or much more than the $28.73 close used here, and their result would differ a lot.
Short history, one coin. 633 days of one asset is not a pattern, and a single coin, winner or loser, tells you little about the next one. Pages about meme coins that rose get written far more often than pages about ones that fell, which is survivorship bias.
Fees and spreads are not counted. In the first days, when trading was heavy, the gap between buy and sell prices could be wide.
Taxes are not counted, and neither is inflation, though over 21 months inflation is small next to a 94% fall.
The past is not a forecast. None of this says what the coin will do next, or whether to buy it.
Related pages on meme coins and losses
For background on this kind of token, see the meme coins page. For a trade of your own, the crypto profit calculator does the math from your buy and sell prices.
How big a gain it takes to undo a fall like this one is shown by the drawdown recovery calculator.
A coin launched by a famous name still has to be judged like any other coin. Check who holds the rest of the supply and when it unlocks before you buy. Put in only what you can afford to lose all of.
— Michael Whitman
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