#BitcoinWithTariffs In the weeks since, Trump has made good on that pledge, announcing a national strategic reserve for cryptocurrency in early March. He named five currencies to the reserve — XRP, Cardano, Solana, Bitcoin and Ethereum — giving each a brief boost in value.

Trump also released his own “meme coin” and has business interests in the cryptocurrency firm World Liberty Financial (WLF), netting him and his family billions of dollars. Critics, however, have questioned the ethics of those ventures, given Trump’s outsized role in the global economy.