LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of US President Donald Trump, said he and his younger brother Eric Trump “orange-pipping” their father after he experienced the prevailing family and his organization following Trump’s first presidency.
Speaking at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Don Jr. said he is not an early adopter of Bitcoin or crypto, but will simply find a way to blockchain technology after realizing the “vulnerable” nature of the traditional financial system.
“We were real estate people, we were hard assets. We built the building. (Bitcoin) was a bit vague,” he said in a fireside chat with Rumble CEO and founder Chris Pavlovski. “But once we got into that political sector… we had been fired from the bank, we were uninsured, we were getting everything. It was brutal.”
Don Jr. said he and Eric have their hands on helping his father, who called Bitcoin a scam in 2021, understand the possibilities of encryption and blockchain technology.
“We were those who were subpoenaed in nonsense lawsuits, and we were those who were dealing with leaving the bank… we were probably those who saw it firsthand,” he said of him and his brother. “Maybe you’ve probably got there a bit before him. Once you start explaining the possibilities, he’s a simple study… he got there right away.”
After Trump accepted the code on the campaign trail, Don Jr. said he got laughs from other candidates, including Democratic candidates and former vice president Kamala Harris.
“I’ll pay money, lots of money, maybe my whole crypto wallet to get Kamala Harris to explain blockchain technology,” Don Jr. said. “It will be the biggest word salad in the history of Kamala Harris Ward Salad.”
Don Jr. added that his father “cares about doing what’s right for America,” and said that fiscal democratization is “a fundamental tenant like world peace, what we want to achieve in this administration.”
Trump family’s crypto ventures, including Trump Memocoin and the world’s Liberty Financial, are said to be opaque in both industry and government, and present conflicts of interest. But since Trump took office, he has been pushing for new regulations and the passing of cryptography, and there has been a clear end to what is known as regulations that regulators put into practice during President Joe Biden’s administration.
With stable laws appearing to be round the corner and the comprehensive market structure bill and the strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act could continue, Don Jr. said improved clarity in industry regulations would benefit Bitcoin.
“I think you just go to the moon and there’s a perfect storm, as they say,” he said.
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