{"id":68666,"date":"2026-01-21T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=68666"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:01:31","slug":"bitcoin-down-11-after-trumps-first-year-why-did-btc-perform-better-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=68666","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Down 11% After Trump&#8217;s First Year\u2014Why Did BTC Perform Better Under Biden?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) is down 11% since <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> took office in January 2025, while the Trump family added $1.4 billion to their fortune through crypto ventures\u2014exposing the gap between political promises and market performance.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Performance Gap Nobody Expected<\/h3>\n<p>Bitcoin traded at $101,000 when Trump took office one year ago. Today it sits below $90,000\u2014an 11% <a href=\"https:\/\/protos.com\/chart-btc-underperforms-in-trumps-first-year-in-office\/\">decline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The comparison to Biden\u2019s first year makes it even more striking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under Biden, Bitcoin climbed from $36,000 to $41,700\u2014a 16% gain\u2014even as his administration sued crypto companies and pushed enforcement-heavy regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The irony: Trump promised to make America the \u201ccrypto capital of the world,\u201d appointed friendly regulators, and dropped lawsuits against the industry. Yet Bitcoin performed worse under the crypto-friendly president.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Trump family quietly built a $1.4 billion crypto empire.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How The Trump Family Made $1.4 Billion<\/h3>\n<p>The family\u2019s net worth remained flat at $6.8 billion &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/50033637\/bitcoin-down-11-after-trumps-first-year-why-did-btc-perform-better-under-biden?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" down after trump first year did btc perform better under biden>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is down 11% since Donald Trump took office in January 2025, while the Trump family added $1.4 billion to their fortune through crypto ventures\u2014exposing the gap between political promises and market performance. The Performance Gap Nobody Expected Bitcoin traded at $101,000 when Trump took office one year ago. Today it sits below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-68666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}