As someone who lived in the city where Trump built ugly monuments to himself, demanded the death penalty for teenagers who were later exonerated, and used his grifting skills to elevate his ego, I had a natural aversion to his personality. He also brought to the surface a great deal of hate and racism that had probably always been there but was disturbing to see nonetheless.

As a bitcoiner, I saw his policies as nothing more than an extension of the fiat system that he exploited for his entire career. His Treasury secretary (a Goldman-Sachs banker and hedge fund manager who made obscene amounts of money off of the 2008 financial crisis) tried to impose KYC requirements on self-custody wallets as one of his final acts in office.