From what I heard from someone who seemed to know a lot about the United States history, he considers Trump the most powerful US president in recent history. But I'm sure a Democrat would disagree...
From my own perspective, it is difficult to be the most powerful president in recent history, when the US itself isn't in its greatest shape. But maybe that's the context in which powerful presidents thrive. Rarely in the best of times.
So... tomorrow he comes into office. How will he want to be remembered? He certainly continues to make very controversial and blunt statements. Like the ones about Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada, or the Gulf of Mexico. I'm pretty sure, after listening to a few sentences from that speech, the statement about Canada was a joke... with Canadians. Maybe Canadians didn't feel it was or liked it. Most likely, the one with Gulf of Mexico was just him toying with Mexico because of the immigration issue. The other two issues, on the other hand, I think he was more serious about, because he mentioned China or Russia taking controlling positions in the Panama Canal and Greenland, respectively.
2025 may be a complicated year geopolitically. With a Trump coming on high horses but with many issues that need to be dealt with both domestically and abroad, with Russia having an unofficial narrative of "being at war with NATO", and China expanding economically throughout the world, things can go either for the better or the worse from here. But in geopolitics we always have to wonder: better for whom?
We have new and old races going on at present:
- the race to control the Arctic Region (that's where Greenland - a territory of Denmark - becomes important, maybe that's why Trump mentioned Canada too, since they have claims in that region too, as an Arctic nation)
- the EV race between Tesla and the Chinese producers
- the AI race
- the robots race
- the space race
- we may end up in another arms race too, if it didn't start already
- a race (seems against the clock) to reduce the human population, despite it being on a descending trajectory in most developed countries (except India. as an well-known case)
- etc.
Where is crypto in all these races and others like them? I'd say, nowhere. Maybe in secondary roles in some of them in the future. Where I see its role is for the people, as one of their last lines of defense in this crazy world we are living in.
Hopefully, Trump lives up to his promises and we will have an US administration positive or neutral to this sector of the economy. If they are smart, they know this may help their citizens (and even companies) have additional earnings without them (the government) doing anything, which in many cases return to their economy. Same for other nations around the world that may find themselves in not so rosy situations now, including in developed countries.
Do you have any special expectations from tomorrow's inauguration? I don't.