{"id":6665,"date":"2025-01-08T15:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:33:13","slug":"ripple-leadership-dines-with-donald-trump-what-was-it-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=6665","title":{"rendered":"Ripple Leadership Dines With Donald Trump: What Was It About?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty were spotted dining with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on January 7, 2025. The news broke via both Garlinghouse and Alderoty\u2019s posts on X, featuring a photograph with Trump that quickly went viral.<\/p>\n

What Did Ripple\u2019s Execs Discuss With Trump?<\/h2>\n

Garlinghouse stated, \u201cGreat dinner last night with Donald Trump & Stuart Alderoty. Strong start to 2025!\u201d while Alderoty, adding<\/a> a personal flair, wrote, \u201c\u2026and to top it off, the beef bourguignon was really good.\u201d Neither executive elaborated on specific topics covered during the dinner, leaving the crypto community to speculate on whether regulatory matters\u2014or the still-unresolved legal battle<\/a> with the US Securities and Exchange Commission\u2014were on the agenda.<\/p>\n

Trump, set to be inaugurated later this month, chose Paul Atkins<\/a> in December to lead the SEC. In light of the ongoing Ripple-SEC case, many analysts are waiting to see whether Atkins and Trump\u2019s administration might alter the agency\u2019s appellate strategy. As reported<\/a> by Bitcoinist yesterday, the SEC\u2019s grounds for appeal are due by January 15, just days before Inauguration Day. While some in the XRP community believe a withdrawal of appeals could be in the cards under new leadership, no official statements have been released.<\/p>\n

Despite the lack of concrete information about the discussion, crypto proponents have largely welcomed the meeting. Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano, congratulated Garlinghouse directly, posting, \u201cNicely done Brad.\u201d The sentiment was echoed by other influencers.<\/p>\n

Moon Lambo (@MoonLamboio) wrote via X \u201cIf anyone thought Trump wasn\u2019t serious about making crypto great again, you can put those fears TO BED!!! $XRP.\u201d Pro-XRP lawyer bill Morgan commented \u201cLove that\u201d and Joey Swoll (@TheJoeySwoll) added: \u201cMake crypto great again! LOCK IN! #XRPARMY\u201d<\/p>\n

However, not everyone responded uncritically. \u0110\u039bRKH\u00d8RS\u039e\"\u2122\" (@DarkhorseDNME4) questioned the meeting\u2019s cost, writing, \u201cSo for the record\u2026 you know \u2018have met\u2019 with Donald Trump where as before Stuart said you had and you hadn\u2019t.. how much did that cost? I heard dinners with Trump are upwards of $100k per seat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, the overall mood among XRP holders appears bullish. Commentators are optimistic that the dinner signals friendlier policy measures under the forthcoming Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Others point to a tweet Garlinghouse shared on January 5\u2014just days before the Mar-a-Lago meeting\u2014highlighting what he described<\/a> as the \u201cTrump bull market.\u201d In that tweet, Garlinghouse wrote, \u201c2025 is here and the Trump bull market is real. For Ripple, this is even more personal after Gensler\u2019s SEC effectively froze our business opportunities here at home for years. The optimism is obvious and very deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garlinghouse also disclosed tangible signs of momentum. \u201c75% of Ripple\u2019s open roles are now US-based, while over the last 4 years, the vast majority of hires were outside the US,\u201d he revealed. Furthermore, he disclosed that Ripple has \u201csigned more US deals in the last six weeks of 2024 (since the election) than the previous six MONTHS.\u201d<\/p>\n

He credited these developments to the \u201cTrump effect,\u201d contending that the President-elect, along with allies such as Scott Bessent, David Sacks<\/a>, and Paul Atkins, has already been \u201cjumpstarting innovation and job growth\u201d before even taking office.<\/p>\n

At press time, XRP traded at $2.28.<\/p>\n

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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty were spotted dining with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on January 7, 2025. The news broke via both Garlinghouse and Alderoty\u2019s posts on X, featuring a photograph with Trump that quickly went viral. What Did Ripple\u2019s Execs Discuss With Trump? Garlinghouse stated, \u201cGreat dinner last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-6665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}