On Sunday, Fox Enterprise Community senior correspondent Charles Gasparino as soon as once more began a feud with the “XRP brigade.”
In a sequence of fiery posts on X (previously Twitter), Gasparino took purpose on the data of particular person traders who maintain the token. Some query whether or not the controversial host realizes that he’s ostensibly serving as an exit liquidity for Ripple executives.
Apart out of your stupidity in holding XRP considering it could make you wealthy, how a lot did Brad Garlinghouse and his gang revenue out of your stupidity? Unhappy haha!
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) January 3, 2026
The latest uproar started when Gasparino responded to customers in regards to the monetary logic of holding property. “Apart out of your stupidity for holding XRP considering it can make you wealthy, how a lot did Brad Garlinghouse and gang revenue out of your stupidity? Unhappy!” Gasparino wrote.
The FOX Information host doubled down on the story in one other tweet. “Wouldn’t it have been good if[SEC Chairman]Jay[Clayton]had pressured the Ripple guys to reveal how a lot they made on XRP whilst you misplaced all that cash?” he scoffed. “You make it very easy.”
“The Cult of the Bag-Holder”
Gasparino, who beforehand claimed credit score for placing the XRP neighborhood “on the map in a mainstream method,” spent a lot of late 2025 and early 2026 sparring with neighborhood heavyweights.
The tv character has ceaselessly characterised the neighborhood as a “cult of bag-toting” and has engaged in weird and particular altercations with outstanding accounts. In an alternate with XRP influencer Huber (@Leerzeit), whom Gasparino refers to as “Mr. Germany,” the host mocked customers’ buying energy over the token’s efficiency.
“This clown reveals up on my timeline each time Mr. Germany loses all the things in $XRP and doesn't have cash for a bratwurst or a small schnitzel,” Gasparino tweeted in late November. “Sorry, however this doesn’t assist the bagholder wealthy XRP cult. So far as administration is worried, they’ve already cashed in.”
The acrimonious state of affairs comes throughout a interval of worth volatility for the asset, which Gasparino not too long ago described as “unstable” and “fully crushed.”
The XRP military ceaselessly accuses journalists of being biased or of carrying water for the SEC's profit. Gasparino insists his function is that of a actuality checker.
A sluggish 12 months for XRP
2025 was presupposed to be a “golden 12 months” for XRP. After the SEC settlement in Might, the token sparked an enormous rally, hitting an all-time excessive of round $3.65 in July. With deafening elation, double-digit worth predictions flooded the timeline.
Nonetheless, since its July peak, XRP has shed practically 45% of its worth, languishing across the $2.00 stage by late 2025 and early 2026.
Gasparino took benefit of this “spherical journey” worth motion to characterize the neighborhood as a “bag holder.” Again in November, Gasparino tweeted that XRP was on the verge of full collapse. ”
