
特朗普家族过去两年收获颇丰,凭借加密货币交易和其他商业项目积累了数十亿美元的新财富。但美国东部时间周二晚间7点10分左右——当时早期选举结果刚开始陆续出炉——这位第一家族的财运发生了转折。
The Trumps have enjoyed a highly lucrative two years, riding a wave of crypto deals and other business enterprises into billions of dollars in new wealth. But around 7:10 p.m. ET Tuesday night—as some of the early election results were just beginning to stream in—the first family’s fortunes changed.
那时,市场开始对特朗普家族一些最有价值的项目转为看空。跌势始于$TRUMP迷因币价格——这是一种本质上毫无用处的加密货币,总统在重返白宫前不久协助创建。说实话,作为一项投资,$TRUMP已经表现不佳一段时间了——在触及74美元高点后,价格一路下滑;周二下午至傍晚,它徘徊在1.60美元左右。但随后价格急剧下跌。
That’s when markets started turning against some of the Trumps’ most valuable ventures. The drop started with the price of the $TRUMP meme coin—an essentially useless bit of crypto that the president helped create shortly before returning to office. Truthfully, $TRUMP has been a bit of a dud in terms of an investment for awhile—after hitting a high of $74, it has slid farther and farther; it was hovering around $1.60 through Tuesday afternoon and early evening. But then it dropped precipitously.
晚上7点10分,$TRUMP每枚售价1.58美元。到7点20分,已跌至1.53美元,尽管中间有过反复,但此后大多继续下跌。到周三中午12点50分,价格触及历史低点1.23美元,不到一天跌幅超过20%(此后略有回升)。特朗普家族去中心化金融公司World Liberty Financial发行的WLFI代币出现类似情况。该代币可买卖,但主要用于对公司运营决策进行投票。晚上7点10分,该代币价值约5.1美分。到晚上8点,跌至4.6美分。价格隔夜短暂回升,但周三再次暴跌,到周三下午徘徊在4.7美分左右。
At 7:10 p.m. $TRUMP could be purchased for $1.58 per coin. By 7:20, it had slid to $1.53, and despite some ups and downs, it has mostly continued falling. By 12:50 p.m. Wednesday, it had hit an all-time low of $1.23, a decline of more than 20 percent in less than a day. (It’s recovered slightly since then.) Something similar happened with the WLFI token—a crypto asset created by World Liberty Financial, the Trumps’ decentralized finance company. The token, which can be bought and sold but is mainly used to vote on decisions about the company’s operations, was worth about 5.1 cents at 7:10 p.m. By 8 p.m. it was worth 4.6 cents. The price briefly recovered overnight but plummeted again Wednesday, hovering around 4.7 cents by mid-afternoon.
特朗普媒体科技集团股价——该公司是总统旗下Truth Social平台的母公司——在盘后交易中也于晚上7点后开始暴跌。周二收盘价为每股5.95美元。周三开盘价为5.37美元。到周三下午,股价跌破4.60美元,创下历史新低。
Shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of the president’s Truth Social platform, also took a nose-dive in after-hours trading, beginning a little after 7 p.m. The stock closed Tuesday at $5.95 per share. It opened Wednesday morning at $5.37. By Wednesday afternoon, it had fallen below $4.60, an all-time low.
有许多原因可能导致这些价格崩盘——$TRUMP 迷因币本身就几乎毫无意义。但它可能与国会民主党人突然获得权力有关。至少众议院,甚至可能参议院,到晚上7:10左右就已明显由民主党人控制。因此,人们意识到民主党人突然拥有传票权力,并能在几乎任何主题上对任何人进行宣誓讯问。到午夜,政治地震的全貌开始显现,新闻媒体称参议院已被民主党人掌控。
There are lots of reasons these prices could have collapsed—the $TRUMP meme coin is arguably completely pointless to begin with. But it might be related to the sudden empowerment of Congressional Democrats. The fact that at least the House of Representatives, and quite possibly the Senate, would now be controlled by Democrats becoming quite clear by about 7:10 p.m. So to was the realization that Democrats would suddenly be armed with subpoena power and the ability to grill anyone under oath on just about any subject. And by midnight, the full scale of the political earthquake was coming into focus, as news outlets called the Senate for Democrats.
如果特朗普的金融产品曾是人们赢得总统关注、讨好或尽可能靠近他的方式,那么昨晚选民对特朗普的谴责立即使他及其企业变得不再具吸引力的投资对象。
If the Trump financial products have served as a way for people to win the president’s attention, ingratiate themselves, or just get as close as possible, the rebuke voters delivered to Trump last night instantly makes him, and his businesses, a less attractive investment.
就在上个月,民主党参议员亚当·希夫和一群参议院同僚给白宫写信,要求特朗普交出与他本月晚些时候在华盛顿地区高尔夫球场举办的活动相关的信息——$TRUMP 迷因币的顶级持有者被邀请参加被宣传为“世界上最独家晚宴”的活动。与会者将有机会在特朗普和三位未透露姓名的“传奇人物”——“世界权力玩家”——的陪伴下沐浴光辉,正如该币背后的公司所称,该公司与特朗普签有许可协议。
Just last month, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and a group of his Senate colleagues sent a letter to the White House demanding that Trump turn over information related to an event he’s holding later this month at his DC-area golf course—the top holders of the $TRUMP meme coin are invited to what has been marketed as “the most exclusive dinner in the world.”Attendees will get to bask in the presence of Trump and three unnamed “legends”—”The World’s power players”—according to the company behind the coin, which has a licensing deal with Trump.
希夫要求特朗普保存记录——暗示未来可能的法律行动,也是一份相当模板化的请求,然而上个月并没有太大力度。如今,这一请求对特朗普而言显得更为阴森,也可能让那些认为通过投资特朗普关联资产可以获得接触机会的人望而却步。
Schiff demanded that Trump preserve records—a hint of future legal action, but also a somewhat boilerplate request that, last month, didn’t have a lot of teeth. That request now seems much more ominous for Trump—and likely discouraging for people who thought they could use investments in Trump-linked assets as a way to gain access.
而且追查特朗普商业帝国的不会只有参议院民主党人。众议院监督委员会民主党首席议员、加州民主党众议员罗伯特·加西亚周二晚间发表了一份简短的两词声明:“请律师吧。”
And it won’t just be Senate Democrats pursuing Trump’s businesses. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top Dem on the House’s Oversight Committee, put out a brief, two-word statement Tuesday night: “Lawyer up.”