Las Vegas, Nevada-Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said that he and his younger brother Eric Trump “recruit” his father after the family and his organization experienced a general unbog in the result of Trump’s first presidential mandate.
Speaking in Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Don Jr. said he was not one of the first to adopt Bitcoin or cryptography, he only found his way to Blockchain technology after realizing the “fragile” nature of the traditional financial system.
“We were real estate boys, we were hard assets, we built buildings – [bitcoin] It was a bit hack, “he said during a conversation by the fire with the CEO and the founder of Rumble Chris Pavlovski.” But once we got into that political sector … we were being messy, we were discharged, we were everything. It was brutal. “
Don Jr. said he and Eric “definitely” had a hand to help their father, who called Bitcoin a scam in 2021, to understand the potential of cryptographic technology and blockchain.
“We were the ones who were cited in meaningless demands, we were those who are dealing with getting rid … We are the guys who probably saw that first hand,” he said about him and his brother. “Probably, maybe we arrive a little in front of him. Once we begin to explain the potential, it is a fast study … it came there quite fast.”
Once Trump hugged Crypto in the campaign, Don Jr. said he laughed at other candidates, including Democratic candidate and former vice president Kamala Harris, jumping in Bitcoin’s car.
“I would pay money, a lot of money, perhaps all my cryptographic wallet, so that Kamala Harris explains the blockchain technology,” said Don Jr. “that would be the best word salad in the history of Kamala Harris’s words salad.”
Don Jr. added that his father “cares about doing the right thing for the United States”, to say that the democratization of finance “is a fundamental tenant after, like world peace, what he wants to achieve in this administration.”
The Trump family cryptocurrencies, including Trump Memecoin and World Liberty Financial, have been highly criticized both in the industry and in the government for being opaque and supposedly presenting conflicts of interest. However, since Trump assumed the position, there has been a renewed impulse for the new regulations and the approval of cryptographic legislation, as well as the apparent end of the so -called regulation for compliance with regulators during the administration of former President Joe Biden.
With Stablecoin legislation apparently around the corner, potentially followed by a comprehensive market structure bill and strategic Bitcoin reserve legislation, Don Jr. said that the improved regulatory clarity for the industry will be a blessing for Bitcoin.
“I think you have the perfect storm for this to go to the moon, as they say,” he said.
