Trump Family is Quietly Reducing its Stake in World Liberty Financial

A new report claims that one of President Trump’s companies is quietly reducing its share in World Liberty Financial, going from 60% ownership to 40%. This happened sometime in the last 11 days.

However, there are several competing theories as to why Trump did this. It’s not clear if he has already sold these shares, if he is planning to do so soon, or if there is another motivation.

What is Trump Doing with World Liberty?

President Trump’s crypto empire is very complicated. Several of his family members have controlling shares in different firms and enterprises, recently creating confusion over who owned the license to sell a TRUMP-branded wallet.

Most of Trump’s stake in World Liberty comes from DT Marks DeFi LLC, and Forbes reported that it greatly diminished its holdings.

Trump Family Crypto Ventures. Source: Molly White

World Liberty revealed this by changing one line on its website, but it didn’t explain why Trump made this decision. More importantly, it’s not clear who now owns this 20% stake in WLF or if this changes any revenue-sharing arrangements.

This has left the community to speculate on these important details.

Forbes, for its part, claimed that Trump was encouraged by the recent Circle IPO and wanted to secure a high return on World Liberty shares.

The report estimated that the President and his associates might have earned around $190 million from a straightforward stock sale. However, there isn’t a paper trail to confirm this theory yet, and there are a few other ideas.

For example, landmark stablecoin regulation recently passed in the Senate, creating a swath of new business opportunities. World Liberty recently announced a new TRUMP Treasury plan, and it might be taking over the meme coin’s operations.

The firm could be consolidating to prepare for massive new WLFI sales, and a future stock offering could help power them.

USD1, the World Liberty Financial Stablecoin, is now the 5th largest by market cap with $2B FDV. Backed by Trump and tied to solving the US debt maturity wall, it’s likely to grow rapidly. With the Genius Act pushing stablecoin regulation, this space is rapidly becoming a macro… pic.twitter.com/veMwUUviaw

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President Trump received a lot of criticism for his ventures from the government and the crypto community. What if he was planning to transfer these shares from World Liberty to another family-owned business like Trump Media or American Bitcoin?

This could help frustrate external scrutiny of a network that’s already hard to decipher.

In the end, this is all speculation. For all we know, President Trump could be employing a combination of all these theories in his Word Liberty plans. He could also be using none of them.

At the moment, the crypto community should keep an eye on these developments, which may lead to market shake-ups.