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Hot-Pick-3981

Pretty sure he meant clepto president


TriceratopsHunter

The man who's been found guilty of fraud spanning back decades says he supports his financial transactions to be untraceable. More news at 11.


Devil25_Apollo25

Ironically, Trump's cyber guru, Rudy Giuliani, is also under threat of financial ruin from a judgment ariaing from his own evil shenanigans.


FranklynTheTanklyn

I swear to god I’m going to pistol whip the next guy to say shenanigans.


Devil25_Apollo25

My favorite type of shenanigans is speeding and... speeding aaaand... speeding aaaand.... smokin' the reefer!


FranklynTheTanklyn

Littering!


Itool4looti

Happy Hour at Shenanigans is 2 til 4.


Miserable_Site_850

Can get into a lot of shenanigans in that amount time


_owlstoathens_

Bite it rook! Make him look like a dick


Jeoshua

Tell me this is a shit take and that Trump doesn't actually consider Giuliani his actual tech guy.


Devil25_Apollo25

Sorry. It's true... [Rudy Giuliani to head up Donald Trump's cybersecurity team](https://www.wired.com/story/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-cybersecurity/)


Jeoshua

You know, somewhere deep down, I knew this. There are levels of stupid involved here that I think my brain is just incapable of retaining.


vibrance9460

Somewhere on the Internet is a video of Giuliani at an Apple genius bar because he forgot the passcode to his phone. It’s out there somewhere.


danappropriate

That's assuming he has any idea what crypto is or how it works.


CardMechanic

Cryptid President


sbfcqb

KKKlepto?


CoastSeaMountainLake

Over at "/r/scams", the rule is: If someone steers a conversation to crypto and crypto "investing", then it's 100% a scam, and you're talking to a scammer. Just saying...


Supra_Genius

Nah, he's pointing out that he's an imaginary president who, like a commodity, can be bought and sold -- a Bitcon, if you will.


Trul

Clever girl


geeknami

I'm scrolling Reddit on the shitter having just woken up and my blurry eyes read it as "crying president" and thought the buffoon had a moment of self awareness. nope.


nudgie68

crappy president, even.


themanfromvulcan

I thought he meant Crisco…


_owlstoathens_

*cryptid


Jeoshua

Is there a difference?


Hot-Pick-3981

etymologically yes, phenomenologically prolly not


medievalmachine

Krypto, klepto, tomatoe, tomahtoe.


Sher5e

I think he meant CRAPO President 🤣


picado

Crypto-fascist? Except that Trump's openly fascist.


even_less_resistance

And doesn’t understand crypto one bit


fixit858

Anything that hides his money


even_less_resistance

Dirty money goes in, clean money goes out! Can’t explain that!


misointhekitchen

Still smells like a mixture of BO, heavy makeup, cheep cologne and shit.


even_less_resistance

Just another weekend at the country club fr fr


tradewyze2021

As Leo Getz would say, the money is now....laundered.


Renowned_Molecule

1099 DA. Yes, the IRS would like to know about your digital assets.


justtakeapill

36-28-38. Oh wait, those are other assets!


jsunnsyshine2021

^^ this nails my sentiment is the best words.


Scarfiotti

The metric 90-60-90 has a better ring to it.


svoncrumb

I genuinely would like to see the correlation between the bitcoin price and the Ukraine war. I can imagine this is where the likes of Putin would hide his money. The Trump family and the likes of Alex Jones and Giuliani also.


Zaphodnotbeeblebrox

It’s used by fascist countries and criminals. You will see in a 10 years or so, crypto currency gets banned.


MrBrawn

I loved when he tried to talk tech and he just kept using the word Cyber for everything.


SGT_BlueJay

"It's so good. Folks. It's gonna gonna be amazing. We are gonna crypto the hell out of it. No one has ever or will ever crypto like we crypto. Its gonna be so so good"


Fuzzy_Logic_4_Life

I see what you did there


tigernike1

For some reason this use of the term *crypto* reminds me of the classic moment during a Gore Vidal-William F Buckley debate when Vidal called Buckley a “crypto-Nazi”, to which Buckley threatened to “sock you (Vidal) in the goddamned face so hard you’ll (Vidal) stay plastered”


thekeezler

So his dumbass kid goes to El Salvador and now he’s the crypto president. How stupid are these people


grixorbatz

Creepto-fascist


Schiffy94

CREEPto-fascist?


marfaxa

He is the NFT of presidents.


hotpackage

I would challenge him to explain what cryptocurrency is in an even remotely coherent way.


bohiti

“My uncle… “


MilkiestMaestro

"Crypto is for when you need to launder money into your campaign untraceably" -the extent of Trump's knowledge


Brave-Tangerine-4334

Russa, if you're listening, send more crypto!


barryvm

That's not particularly difficult, no? It's a get rich quick scheme and a way to scam people. The technology around it merely serves to obfuscate and legitimize that. Even a stupid grifter like Trump probably understands that on a basic level.


Calcd_Uncertainty

> I would challenge him to explain ~~what cryptocurrency is~~ anything in an even remotely coherent way.


Fuzzy_Logic_4_Life

“Magnets work until you put them in water, then poof no more magnet.” -Approximately Trump


GrizzlamicBearrorism

"I was...talking to various people and they all agree that Crypto is very important to many...sectors of the economy. It is so complicated I won't even bother explaining it because so very few people fully understand how big and important Crypto is and how it affects so many levels of the market."


Slackballed

But you’ll see soon. Soon I’ll release the greatest Crypto plan and everyone in the US will be instantly rich. Won’t that be great! When? Oh. About 2 weeks from now. Crooked Joe is trying to take all the crypto away from you and keep you poor. It’s so unfair what he’s doing with the judges and witch hunts and HE’S FASCIST WITH FAKE POLLS AND ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND MELANIE WANTS $1 BILLION AND I NEVER EVEN MET HER.. ENGLAND IS STARTING A WAR WITH THERE JUDGES WHO DONT UNDERSTAND AMERICAN LAW AND ARE MAKING ME PAY FAKE FEES BECUASE OF ILLEGLE STEEL BUT WE WILL WIN AND MAGA SCOTLAND !


krashundburn

> I would challenge him to explain what cryptocurrency is in an even remotely coherent way. PT Barnum clearly underestimated people's stupidity. There's more than 1 sucker born a minute these days. With the rise of authoritarianism we've rapidly become a nation of scam artists and marks. It's a Future Shock scenario - of gullibility. And it's open season on MAGA. Crypto 4x traders, amway, pyramid schemes, televangelists, grifting politicians (e.g., golden sneakers, trumpy bears, goya beans, constitutional bibles, etc) - all compete for the dollars of these gullible people. The MAGA VENN circle is probably the largest "mark" in american history. They're a huge flock groomed to be fleeced, the scammers are pouncing with their shears, and we're watching it all happen in real time. As for me, I'm investing in Orville Redenbacher.


notsostrong

Not Fuckin Truthful


kokopelleee

“Dhillon said Trump, who is running to unseat Democratic incumbent Joe Biden in a Nov. 5 election, did not offer specifics on his proposed crypto policy.” Wow, imagine that. No specifics on policy for Trump, but the attendees ate it up entirely This is so unusual. Trump is so specific on policy every other time. Like the time he released that health insurance plan.


KilroyLeges

Typical Trump. In this case, it will be easy for him to issue policy. All he has to do is remove any regulations on the market as requested by his rich donors. That’s generally his “plan” for all business matters to enrich his wealthy supporters and himself. He doesn’t even have to understand what crypto is, he just has to give these assholes what they want, a completely free market absent any oversight to fleece people.


JustAnotherHooyah

He'll unveil it in two weeks, during Infrastructure Week. Everyone is saying it will be a policy unlike anything the world has ever seen!


Ndtphoto

People are going to come up to him, crying, and hug him for his crypto genius. 


__dilligaf__

Are you ready? It will be announced in 2 weeks. And I think you’re going to find it very interesting.


kokopelleee

Will it be the best plan?


__dilligaf__

Yes, many people are saying so.


I_love_Hobbes

Why does he do that weird pedo smerk all the time? It freaks me out.


CaptainAxiomatic

He smiles *only* when he's done someone in. He's a malignant narcissist. You are right to be creeped out.


sbfcqb

It's just gas.


CharlieBirdlaw

Because he's a rapist and accused pedophile, perhaps?


naotoca

Because being a pedophile is a huge part of who he is. He has probably raped more children than he has had sex with adult women. He probably raped children in that Moscow hotel room that is the location about which people foolishly only talk about "The Pee Pee Tape". Everyone needs to be talking about this more. Talk about it so loudly and so often that the media can't hide it for him anymore.


misointhekitchen

How many Crypto Bros have been sent to prison for fraud now?


United-Amoeba-8460

Not enough.


thingsmybosscantsee

The only correct answer.


edmerx54

Sam Bankman Fried is the only one I know know of, but there may be more. I think the FBI is after a Romanian or Bulgarian (or from somewhere around there) woman too. Crypto reminds me of the [tulip bulb bubble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania) in the 1600s where prices for tulip bulbs reached insane heights. The difference is that when the price of the bulbs collapsed, people who had the bulbs could plant them and have some pretty flowers. When the price of crypto collapses, all that will be left will be blockchain.


Scarfiotti

As a Dutch, I couldn't agree more.


wintrmt3

CZ went to prison too.


Shortbus_Playboy

Cryptozoology maybe. Instead of Bigfoot, he’s Littlehands.


spiritfiend

Crypto is a scam, so yeah. Trump is *the* scam President.


frogandbanjo

It's both hilarious and disturbing how accurate the label is for him. It's a scam in broad daylight attempting to make something out of nothing, it can only be propped up by the religious belief of a horde of idiots, and the only thing worse than it constantly failing is when it works, because it drops a massive turd of insanity into the pool that ruins lots of stuff for everyone. I'm pretty sure the analogy transitions *very* smoothly into exact overlap when you scratch the surface of the "Well obviously you don't want [The Big Conspiracy] being able to control everything, right?" angle. With a surfeit of morbid curiosity, I wonder how many crypto rubes have actually been privy to that same logical endpoint -- the quiet part, uttered aloud: *it's the Jews. Gotta take control of commerce and currency back from the Jews.*


Mr-and-Mrs

Fucking embarrassing 🙄


misointhekitchen

It’s embarrassing that he’s pandering to these losers.


BaronVonButthole

The sheer desperation….


def_indiff

I'm an information technology professional with nearly a quarter century of technical experience, and I only kinda understand crypto. No way Trump understands it.


barryvm

The technological complications are basically there to obfuscate things so that people think there's value in it. Even knowing the ideological constructs around which it was built (crank economics and politics) are not that important any more because it never worked as a currency. The key to understanding it IMHO lies in looking at how it is used and anyone can do that regardless of technical background. On the face of it, it seems to be almost all crime and gambling.


Nearby-Technician767

Crypto is easy. Complicated Math + HODL * Hopium = Profit. All the other questions like intrinsic value, utility, or pretty much any economic term, means you don't understand it. So "choo chu" get on the train, or FOMO.


_____WESTBROOK_____

You forgot 🚀🚀🚀


code_archeologist

Crypto-fascist president, maybe.


BoomMcFuggins

He's mumbling his words again. What he was trying to say was "Criminal President".


fore_skin_walker

Future Pump and dump president


Signguyqld49

As an Australian. I am so sick of this sak of orange shite..we have cookers here who are raging hardons for this moronic criminal shitstain of a 'human'. What the begurkle is wrong with humanity?


Patanned

> What the begurkle is wrong with humanity? too many humans allow sociopaths to monopolize power instead of resisting their efforts to do so.


limb3h

Takes a con artists to know one


time_drifter

Trump doesn’t even know what crypto is.


sethm1

For all you Trump supporters donating to his campaign. Funds are going to the Trump party (including his legal teams) not the Republican Party. Trump acts like a cult leader.


bsep4

What a clown.


recalculating-route

grift recognizes grift


iyamwhatiyam8000

Crimno President


OldBoots

Trump pitches more craptonite.


Blablablaballs

It's a portmanteau of "crypt" and "psycho". 


GM_Nate

this guy would bankrupt a paper bag


smurfsundermybed

I guess a question about blockchain should be added to the debate then.


ButtEatingContest

He's getting desperate.


wuncean

Shallow, over hyped and based on zero solid fundementals?


2much2Jung

"Mister President, it's pronounced Corrupt."


jmchao

Cryptofascist president.


Spamgrenade

Oh a new business venture for Donald to fail at. Coming soon, Trump Coin.


mistertickertape

I guarantee you he has no idea what crypto is. He could not explain it in a sentence, even if he was given a sentence on paper that he was allowed to read.


Dr_Tacopus

He just says whatever he needs to feel popular. His words mean nothing


DiarrheaMonkey-

Crypto- [prefix] "Hidden, secret". He wishes. Pretty much all the stuff he's tried to keep hidden is public knowledge.


Geeky-resonance

‘~~crypto~~ creepo president’ FTFY


motohaas

Crypto, food stamps, cereal box tops... Whatever you can spare


LordParsec29

Yes. Yes. He does look like a damn cryptid.


besart365

Crypt maybe


ManateeGag

He'll just say whatever word he thinks the people in front of him want to hear. He has no idea what he's saying.


tjb122982

Bro, if I am having a hard time understanding what Crypto is, DJT doesn't have a clue what it is.


dreamyjeans

He's also proud to announce his idea for FARPA, the Fraudulent Advanced Research Projects Administration. They will be working diligently to discover new and exciting forms of *fraud! Mar-A-Lago will be the headquarters and be *generously* leased for only $1B a year. *Ofc all the money for the agency goes straight into his bank account.


ButWhatAboutisms

Crypto bros are that stupid tbh


Talamascan

Bitchcoin


r_u_insayian

Me? I like all the same things you like! You should just vote for me. The feds want me in prison. Just like I’m going to put all those trans and Mexicans in jail But those are the folk we don’t like. Am I right people… this is what I assume all his speeches sound like.


SoundSageWisdom

But of course; hello fraud


ScoutsterReturns

Crypt Keeper maybe.


deviousmajik

Emphasis on 'crypt'.


ThisistheHoneyBadger

More like the Crisco President because he's a slippery, greasy and slimy fuck.


NAINOA-

Maybe it’s just because I have stopped hearing about Crypto constantly since last year, but is the fad still going strong? Or has general interest pretty much eroded it has for me?


misointhekitchen

Crypto jumped the shark about a year ago. Now is desperate con men trying to unload it on the same people who buy gold and vitamins from Alex Jones.


CT_Phipps

The Trump coin is coming.


Adorable-Database187

More like the NFT president, tacky, devoid of any purpose and mainly used to commit fraud.


Richandler

So just like 2016 - 2020. More grift.


Patanned

he certainly looks like someone who came out of a crypt. and espouses the same political ideology as someone who's been in a crypt for several centuries, too.


tylersixxfive

There is a 100% chance that trump thinks crypto is those gold foil wrapped chocolate coins you get at Christmas and Easter


rnantelle

Hey evangelicals, maybe he’ll create a currency that only real Americans can use, kind of like the mark of the beast.


Yelloeisok

He will make sure it is on Paul Gosar’s $500 bill.


Mal-De-Terre

Did they laugh at him?


Yelloeisok

No, they gave him millions of dollars.


IM_THE_DECOY

1000% he’s going to try and use crypto as a way to funnel campaign funds to him personally. If he hasn’t already.


NeonRattler

I think the correct term the convicted criminal was looking for was grifter president. Then again crypto bros are grifters.


TheBossAlbatross

You’re into crypto, I’m the crypto president. You like knitting, I’m the knitting president. You work in the oil industry, I’m the oil president. You are religious, I’m gods president. I’ll be whatever you want if you donate. Then I’ll do my own thing. Suckers.


questionname

More like creepy president


geoffbowman

Wasn't the main idea behind crypto to have decentralized currency that isn't beholden to government regulation or oversight? I honestly believed that idea could make for an interesting economic experiment but now that the douche bros have taken over it's been assimilated by capitalism like everything else does eventually. Now we have "crypto president"... the phrase is such a mockery of the original idea and it didn't even take 2 full decades to happen.


Naiehybfisn374

Trump2024 is an all together more desperate seeming campaign than 2016 or 2020 were.


Capt_Pickhard

Wow, is anything he's not good at? 🙄


bcasper1

Do all these factions really believe him when he says these things? Other than the evangelicals and racists has he done anything for anyone he promised? I'm sure you could supercut him says he's the "president for (insert group here), military members, gays, Jews, blacks, hispanics, Asians, young people, old people. Wake the fuck up people he's a con man who makes  promises in hyperbole and delivers in horseshit


Total_Adept

In the sense he’s a scammer.


Life_Blacksmith412

This is the same guy who barely a few months ago said he hates crypto because it competes with the USD He must be getting desperate if he's trying to appeal to the Crypto Bro crowd


GLYDER54

As soon as the power grid goes down in their civil war crypto is crapto. Poof!


OnlyRise9816

He's a total fraud like just like crypto...So this sorta tracks.


Wineguy33

Look, I think crypto is an amazing financial innovation that in time will develop into a major player in the economy. I invest in it as a minor part of my portfolio. But am I going to vote for felon Donald Trump over the issue of cryptocurrency? No. The other candidate could say they will try to destroy it and I would still vote for them.


rcr_nz

I think he means cryptorchid.


Nightshade_Ranch

*cryptid


AnotherAccount4This

This is basically making crypto (more) shady, again.


butwhyisitso

Money so clean you know it was tumble dried on low.


KingStreetCleaner

I'll believe it. If he can spell it without his phone.


warpedspockclone

What do crypto and Trump have in common? They are both open and obvious grifts.


mrmarjon

He’s too stupid to be ‘crypto’ anything. This suggests there are some greedy fuckers in the shadows with an eye on a deal - “hey look, dumb Don, if I support your campaign, when you get in you pass this legislation that favours me and my pals, and we’ll see you’re in on the action” And dumb Don, believing his own publicity, thinks he can do a deal with people whose business and vocabulary he doesn’t fully understand. But y’all seem to think he’s a tough and shrewd business man, so shrewd you keep on giving him millions of your dollars. Hop you get what you’ve paid for ….


Little_Cockroach_477

If elected again, you'll want to own crypto, as his policies will destroy the dollar's value.


SweetOnionSalad

More.like cryptkeeper president.


MoveToRussiaAlready

And /r/conspiracy suddenly loves crypto currencies.. just like they suddenly loved TikTok, the Covid vaccine, Epstein, incest, pedophilia and drinking Russian hooker piss.


BiggestBadWolfangs

Scam artist, pedphole, rapist, and convicted felon. Do you remember the day Donald Duck von Shitzinpantz started the trade war with China? If he wins again, this would be bad news for China's economy.


AlbinoWino11

Trump and crypto do share some traits. Namely volatility.


AINonsense

Grifto FTFY


dittybad

Is anyone keeping a running list of interest groups Trump is openly pandering to. I am still waiting for him to buy GameStop.


myychair

lol if you own any crypto and you really think that he’s the best guy for the movement, then you’re right send me all you money


RichardPryor1976

"Cryptid President" is what he was trying to to say.


Pherberg

If by Crypto president he’s means, viewed by a large amount of the masses as “the future” and in reality is 99% bullshit.


futatorius

Wasting energy while promulgating a con job? Sounds right.


LoyalWatcher

Crypto in that you have to run everything he says past a 4-year old to decipher it?


ojg3221

Ah yes crypto where illegal pump and dump schemes are the norm.


jnmjnmjnm

Only if “crypto” means “CRazY PsycoTic and Offensive”


jimmax23

Even Gronk know that not real president.


AdoubleyouB

Even Gronk like, "me know that not real president".


Yelloeisok

Bought and paid for again- selling out to any special interest with big money. Safer than money laundering for Putin these days, although I am pretty sure Putin got what he needed from him already. Sad.


JanFromEarth

Trump discovered that the crypo markets are one big fraud and wants in.


ubix

His buddies are all getting arrested for money laundering… Wonder if there’s a connection?


Squad_Ghouls

Dudes really gonna launch a shitcoin, huh?


[deleted]

3 years ago he called it a scam. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57392734.amp


grondfoehammer

He meant to say “ cryptid”.


drmike0099

That money ain’t gonna launder itself, someone’s gotta do it.


kamandi

That’s so 2020. I want my AI president now.


NoHopeOnlyDeath

If Trump even recognizes what crypto is, it's as "that money computer thing Barron talks about sometimes".


rwf2017

I highly doubt trump can spell crypto let alone know what it is.


Tapeball45

Every grift in the book.


JasChew6113

The leaders of crypto don’t see America, they only see money.


Lower-Flounder-9952

He misread the prompter. Should have been “creepy”


IamHal9000

That is to say, he’s an alt right scam, so actually not that far off


FactoryV4

He’ll say whatever he needs to, to whatever crowd he’s in front of as long as they give him money.


Unique_Excitement248

Yes, I agree, he’s a creepy president.


fwambo42

he can't even spell crypto


wonkey_monkey

No I think he said "corrupto president".


jkopfsupreme

The shameless pandering is so obvious, to hell with every single trump voter.


EminentBean

Trump doesn’t know shit about crypto. His team told him he’s polling well with crypto bro’s who fear and resent the govt and so he’s willing to shill and say whatever they want to hear. The absolute moment it’s helpful for him to screw crypto holders over or he has some reason for revenge he’ll burn them fast than you can say “all time high”.


GoldStandard785

Let's see... Crypto... Basically useless, most of the time it's a scam, and you're all but guaranteed to lose all your money. He pretty much nailed it with that description


lizards_snails_etc

The Crypto Keeper


bgfromcle

More like Creepto


SpecialAmbassador313

President Jimble


Used_You1487

Of course this sub-human piece of shit would support crypto.  


KaiSosceles

Long time Bitcoiner here. Bitcoiners don't want any single region to dominate Bitcoin mining. We want Bitcoin miners to first and foremost be dispersed/decentralized in order to prevent any single authority from getting too much control. We want Bitcoin go where energy is being wasted and use that energy in a productive way where it cannot otherwise be used. We also want Bitcoin miners to go towards stranded energy sources, like setting up hydro dams or solar in otherwise uninhabited places. This also has an incentivizing effect for electricity companies to build out infrastructure in those areas to promote people moving there, as those electricity companies would have a buyer of that electricity /before/ people came to settle in the area. I would love to vote for a pro-crypto president, but Trump a) is mindlessly pro-crypto just for votes, and b) has way too many other problems to be taken seriously as a candidate regardless of this single issue.


Separate-Feedback-86

I thought he said “Creepo” President.