MELANIA memecoin sinks to $0.18 amid controversy over insider sales

The MELANIA token, tied to the US first lady Melania Trump, is in the pits after tanking 98% from its ￰0￱ token was drowned by criticism over the project’s lack of transparency around fund ￰1￱ all that, the team has not cared to come clean with ￰2￱ First Lady famously launched the meme coin on the eve of Donald Trump’s presidential ￰3￱ token quickly surged, reaching a peak of $13.73 before ￰4￱ price never ￰5￱ to on-chain data, it is down more than 90% from launch and 98% from its all-time ￰6￱ community ask for fund movements amidst MELANIA promotion US First Lady Melania Trump has returned to promoting her SOL-based meme coin, MELANIA memecoin, after a 10-month absence.

Yesterday, she published an AI-generated video that called the token a path “into the future.” Into The ￰7￱ — MelaniaMeme (@TrueMELANIAmeme) October 1, 2025 This sudden move triggered a price spike for the token, causing it to jump from $0.16 to $0.19 before tanking again. However, the post conspicuously lacked any comment from Trump addressing the millions of dollars in token sales earlier this ￰8￱ response to the news, blockchain analysts raised concerns over how the team behind the MELANIA meme coin handled community ￰9￱ to data tracked by Bubblemaps, in April, the MELANIA project moved and sold over $30 million worth of community tokens without explanation.

It's been 7 MONTHS And still no explanation from $MELANIA team on why: • $30M tokens from team wallets were sold • $10M tokens were removed from the community pool and sold ￰10￱ — Bubblemaps (@bubblemaps) August 12, 2025 The platform also highlighted that $10 million worth of tokens were removed from community pools and ￰11￱ platform criticized the posting of an AI video after months of silence without addressing fund ￰12￱ addition, Blockchain intelligence firm Lookonchain identified $1.5 million in token sales over three days leading up to April ￰13￱ sales followed a 21% price increase during the previous week and resembled a dollar-cost averaging pattern, where fixed amounts are liquidated at scheduled ￰14￱ used a formula similar to a Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) ￰15￱ is conducting small, staggered sales rather than a single massive ￰16￱ calculated approach allowed the team to offload many of their holdings, generate consistent selling pressure on the token, and mitigate the risk of triggering an immediate, catastrophic price ￰17￱ a result of these concerns, the coin rally is ￰18￱ coin is up only 0.55% in the last 24 hours, trading at ￰19￱ coin currently has a market cap of $161.2 ￰20￱ chose the wrong allies The team behind MELANIA is a ￰21￱ Davis is one of the co-creators of the MELANIA token alongside other high-profile meme coins during the 2025 ￰22￱ also helped launch the LIBRA token, which collapsed earlier this year when eight insider wallets cashed out $107 million in ￰23￱ Libra sell-off wiped out $4 billion in market value within ￰24￱ March, Davis launched a Wolf of Wall Street-themed token with over 80% insider ￰25￱ project lost 99% of its value within two days of ￰26￱ said MELANIA struggled to separate itself from these controversies, given overlapping development teams and investor ￰27￱ MELANIA, TRUMP had more periods of ￰28￱ token experienced price surges following key policy announcements.

However, the TRUMP token has also faced significant public criticism, primarily driven by accusations of market ￰29￱ controversy peaked in May when the President invited the top 220 token holders to an exclusive dinner at his Virginia golf ￰30￱ argued that it was an inappropriate use of public office, especially since the event’s publicity also increased the token’s price. Meanwhile, the coin is steady, trading at $7.74. Join a premium crypto trading community free for 30 days - normally $100/mo.