Las Vegas, Nevada – Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of American president Donald Trump, said that he and his younger brother Eric Trump had “folded Orange” their father after the family and his organization experienced an omnipresent disparagement in the wake of Trump’s first presidential term.
Speaking on Tuesday at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, Don Jr. said that he was not an early adopter of Bitcoin or Crypto, finding only his path to Blockchain technology after having produced the “fragile” nature of the traditional financial system.
“We were real estate guys, we were hard assets, we built buildings – [bitcoin] It was a bit nebulous, “he said during a conversation by the fire with the CEO of Rumble and the founder Chris Pavlovski.” But once we entered this political sector … We disabled ourselves, we made sure, we became everything. It was brutal.
Don Jr. said he and Eric had “definitively” contributed to help their father, who called Bitcoin a scam in 2021, understand the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.
“We were those who were assigned to appear in insensitive proceedings, we were those who are dealing to be untied … We are the guys who probably saw this first hand,” he said about him and his brother. “We probably arrived a little before him. Once we started to explain the potential, it’s a quick study … It happened fairly quickly.”
Once Trump adopted Crypto on the campaign campaign, Don Jr. said he had laughed at other candidates, including the Democratic candidate and former vice-president Kamala Harris, jumping into the Bitcoin train.
“I would pay money, a lot of money, maybe all my cryptography wallet, so that Kamala Harris explains blockchain technology,” said Don Jr. “It would be the biggest word salad in the history of Kamala Harris words.”
Don Jr. added that his father “cares about doing what is good for America”, saying that the democratization of finance “is a fundamental tenant afterwards, like world peace, of what he wants to accomplish in this administration”.
Crypto companies of the Trump family, including Trump Memecoin and World Liberty Financial, have been strongly criticized in industry and government to be opaque and present conflicts of interest. However, since Trump took office, there has been a renewed push for new regulations and the adoption of cryptographic legislation, as well as the apparent end of the so-called regulation by application practiced by regulators during the administration of former President Joe Biden.
With stable legislation apparently at the corner of the street, potentially followed by a full bill on market structure and strategic Bitcoin reserve legislation, Don Jr.
“I think you have the perfect storm for this thing that goes just on the moon, as they say,” he said.
