{"id":72280,"date":"2026-02-13T11:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72280"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:46:32","slug":"ross-gerber-slams-trump-and-melania-memecoin-hype-for-spooking-crypto-investors-money-doesnt-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72280","title":{"rendered":"Ross Gerber Slams Trump And Melania Memecoin Hype For Spooking Crypto Investors: &#8216;Money Doesn&#8217;t Come Back&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ross Gerber<\/strong>, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth &amp; Investment Management, said the recent slump in <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>), as the broader crypto market struggles a year into <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s presidency, may be driven by the rapid rise of speculative meme coins.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bitcoin-donald-trump-meme-coins-crypto-market-investing-btc-wlfi-2026-2\">an interview<\/a> with Business Insider, published on Thursday, Gerber suggested that the introduction and subsequent popularity of <strong>Official Trump<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/TRUMP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(CRYPTO:<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> TRUMP<\/a>)\u00a0and the First Lady-themed <strong>Official Melania <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MELANIA\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MELANIA-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">MELANIA<\/a>) meme coins have made investors cautious of digital assets. He argues that these meme coins, often backed or introduced by celebrities, result in ordinary investors losing money while the celebrity promoters profit.<\/p>\n<p>He said that investors often jump into such tokens believing the hype, only to get burned, adding that the \u201cmoney doesn\u2019t come back,\u201d and is effectively &#8220;stolen&#8221; from them.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed to other celebrity-backed cryptocurrencies, including a token launched by former New York City mayor <strong>Eric Adams<\/strong> and the $HAWK coin introduced by internet personality <strong>Haliey Welch<\/strong>, as additional examples of meme coins that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/26\/02\/50604819\/ross-gerber-slams-trump-and-melania-memecoin-hype-for-spooking-crypto-investors-money-doesnt-come-back?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Ross\" gerber slams trump and melania memecoin hype for spooking crypto investors: doesn come back>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth &amp; Investment Management, said the recent slump in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), as the broader crypto market struggles a year into Donald Trump&#8216;s presidency, may be driven by the rapid rise of speculative meme coins. In an interview with Business Insider, published on Thursday, Gerber suggested that the introduction [&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-72280","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\/72280","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=72280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}