Eric Trump Says He Got Into Crypto Amid Political Attack, Calls Bitcoin ‘Digital Gold’
TORONTO —Eric Trump, the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, said he believes bitcoin is digital gold and called the largest digital currency a store of value, during a packed panel at Consensus 2025 in Toronto.
“I really believe in digital gold, which is bitcoin, right? I believe in the store of value,” Trump said.
However, Eric Trump — who has a background in real estate — told the crowd at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2025 conference in Toronto that he didn’t get into bitcoin or crypto until politics intertwined the Trump family and the crypto community.
“It wasn’t until the very same group that was attacking my family for no reason whatsoever other than political beliefs, started attacking [the] crypto community that it really drove two…
