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“Trump Will Make Crypto EXPLODE” Cathie Wood on Bitcoin in 2026 + BIG XRP NEWS!

📅 Jan 09, 2026 Altcoin Daily 11 MIN 58242 VIEWS 17 SEGMENTS · 7 SPEAKERS
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Narrator 0:00 ↗
2026 is in the US the midterm elections and President Trump does not want to be a lame duck.
2026 will be a big year for crypto. Eric Trump just went ballistic on Sirius XM talking about Bitcoin. Big Amazon XRP news. But before that, let's talk about the greater crypto market in general. 2026 will be a big year for crypto because President Trump does not want to be a lame duck president. He knows that the crypto community got him elected.
Eric Trump 0:38 ↗
Bitcoin is going to the moon. As we say, it's going to the moon. I want America to be the nation that leads the way. And that's what's going to happen. No, you're going to be very happy with me.
Narrator 0:50 ↗
So in 2026, he will deliver for the crypto community. And it's not just him delivering for the crypto community. It's him delivering for his family who is all in on crypto and needs the US to be very crypto friendly. So 100% Trump is working with crypto and AI Czar David Sacks right now to deliver on the Clarity Act or market structure bill before the midterms. He's going to get the Clarity Act or something like it passed before the midterms to signal to the crypto community, hey, we're doing great. But even more than that, President Donald Trump will begin buying 1 million Bitcoin for the US Strategic Reserve this year, at least according to ARK Invest's Cathie Wood. Listen to this.
Cathie Wood 1:40 ↗
2026 is in the US the midterm elections. And President Trump does not want to be a lame duck. So I have a feeling that he is going to work with his crypto and AI Czar, right? To do a few things. One, make sure we get that de minimis ruling through. Make sure, so because you know grassroots is where a lot of what we've been talking about is going to happen. But also it seems as though there's been reticence about actually buying Bitcoin for the strategic reserve. So far, so far it's confiscated. The original intent was to own a million Bitcoin. So I actually think they will start buying because I think this will help Trump in a couple of ways. The midterm elections, part of the reason he won the presidency I think was the crypto community. Yes, and another reason of course is his family is all in on Bitcoin and other crypto assets and they have, you know, we talked about the DATs earlier. They've kind of fallen apart this year. So I think he's got all kinds of reasons to do this but the most important one is he does not want to be a lame duck. He wants to have another one or two productive years. And I think he sees crypto as a path to the future.
Narrator 3:20 ↗
So Trump knows that he has to win the midterms or else he says it himself, he risks getting impeached.
Donald Trump 3:27 ↗
You got to win the midterms because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be, I mean they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached.
Narrator 3:39 ↗
So, in order to win the midterms, he's going to have to remind his constituency, a large part of that is the crypto community that he is delivering for them. And if they're going to impeach him, imagine what they'll try to do to his sons who have huge crypto businesses in the US and around the world. Are they still into crypto? Yeah. His family has never been more into crypto. Here's Eric Trump in a recent interview going ballistic on the Sirius XM host over Bitcoin. Listen to this.
Eric Trump 4:09 ↗
Guess what Bitcoin prices were exactly 2 years ago from today. I'll tell you because you wouldn't know. 36,500 was the cost of a Bitcoin 2 years ago. We are up 180% in a 24-month period. The spot price of a BTC is probably the number one performing asset of any asset. And this is coming from a guy who believes in hard assets, right? I mean, I run one of the great real estate portfolios anywhere in the world. Cryptocurrency is absolutely on fire. Cryptocurrency is taking on the whole world.

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Wood, C. (2026, January 9). “Trump Will Make Crypto EXPLODE” Cathie Wood on Bitcoin in 2026 + BIG XRP NEWS! [Interview transcript]. Altcoin Daily. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/924507/

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Cathie Wood. "“Trump Will Make Crypto EXPLODE” Cathie Wood on Bitcoin in 2026 + BIG XRP NEWS!." Altcoin Daily, 9 Jan. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/924507/.

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  author       = {Cathie Wood},
  title        = {“Trump Will Make Crypto EXPLODE” Cathie Wood on Bitcoin in 2026 + BIG XRP NEWS!},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Altcoin Daily. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {jan},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/924507/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}