... at high speed. mostly. 😀
But I wanted to hear it myself instead of reading some summaries or interpretations.
It's the first political discourse I watch from end to end in many years.
It's also the first speech of Trump I see.
I can't say it was anything special about it, other than Trump being capable of remembering where he talks, unlike his former opponent, as he joked about. It was a normal political speech, written by someone trained to do this, and delivered by a powerful candidate.
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It happened to be at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, so the speech was directed to the bitcoin and crypto people, at certain points.
Where he talked about bitcoin or crypto, the speech was well-documented, so whoever wrote him those parts of the speech knew what to talk about and what points to check.
I do believe some parts were especially introduced in the keynote to gauge the reaction of the crowd, to understand how strongly they feel about certain subjects.
For example, I believe Trump was a bit surprised that bitcoiners had practically no reaction when he mentioned stablecoins (which he mispronounced at first). But he moved passed it quickly. Obviously, we know bitcoiners don't like stablecoins much, since they believe bitcoin is everything anyone needs. This may have been an oversight of the prep team. But he needed to mention stablecoins, since this is and will be an important topic going forward and he might not talk about crypto too often.
I'm not surprised that he said he wants to keep bitcoiners (particularly businesses and miners I understood from the speech) in the US. That's was and probably will be his policy: to bring companies home and strengthen the US.
I'm also not surprised that he didn't venture into promising to build up US Bitcoin reserves by buying BTC from the market. He wanted to sound more conservative than the other promises that came out at the same conference.
He promised Gensler would be gone as Chairman of the SEC, if he becomes President, and that seems what the audience was the most enthusiastic about, although to be honest, that is almost a sure thing, regardless of his position on crypto.
My general impression is that he isn't sold on crypto, maybe he can't fully understand it, and what he understands (energy consumption of bitcoin) may not like very much. You can feel a person who is pro-crypto by conviction. He understands money (and likes the donations), and this was a learned/practiced speech. I also think he doesn't believe anymore that bitcoin or crypto are bad for the dollar (on the short-medium term, nobody knows what will happen on the long term). That I think he understood.
Will he be a pro-crypto president, if he is elected? He won't be against it, of that I am convinced. I can't say more than that after watching this speech...
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