Overview

• Video posted to Instagram shows Eric Trump briefly grappling with a grand champion sumo wrestler before being lifted and carried out of the ring.
• Trump traveled to Tokyo for a Metaplanet shareholder meeting, and Reuters has reported he serves as an adviser to the Japanese bitcoin treasury company.
• Multiple outlets note the timing overlapped with the Trump family’s $WLFI cryptocurrency beginning open exchange trading.
• The clips drew widespread attention online, with reactions ranging from amusement to mockery across social platforms.
• Coverage includes accuracy concerns, including a single-source claim that the family’s $WLFI stake hit $5 billion and at least one outlet wrongly conflating a sumo yokozuna with the late WWE performer of the same name.