Last time Justin Sun set foot in the United States, he was Grenada’s WTO Ambassador and navigated in Rocky Waters to former president Bid’s crypto crash.
Times have changed. Now he eats at an event hosted by President Donald Trump for the greatest proprietors of his Trump Memecoin and celebrating a legislative breakthrough as issuers eye a potential throne ETF signalizing a striking turn in Crypto’s American fortunes.
The Tron founder, who spoke with Coindesk after the presidential dinner, who was met by protesters, rejected accusations that the token is a tool for bribery. He called skeptics short -sighted and argued that Trump’s embrace of crypto could trigger a new era with digital asset innovation in America.
“All haters have to really be aware,” Sun Coindesk told, describing Trump’s support for crypto as one of the president’s best decisions. “Positive things happen in the industry.”
Sun’s relationship with Trump’s affiliated Crypto -Ventures extends back to just after last year’s election when he bought up to $ 75 million worth the world’s Liberty Financial tokens across several trans.
Shortly after Trump joined, Hans Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) held a case of civil fraud against him along with Crypto Exchange; SEC also retired or fell a dozen other cases, although it just filed a new trial against civil fraud against Unicoin earlier this week. And earlier on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Justice, which is pursuing criminal cases, had been investigating him since 2021.
He described the dinner as a clear sign that the United States is recovering its status as Crypto’s Global Hub and marked a sharp reversal from the Biden administration’s war against the industry, which had previously caused cryptophy companies to consider offshore movements.
“At the Trump dinner, some supporters told me that they were thinking of leaving the United States because of the Biden administration and moving to places like Hong Kong or Singapore,” said Sun. “Even consensus began to hold events outside the United States.”
“But now they have changed their mind. It all brings back to the United States,” he continued.
Criticism of Trump’s decision to launch a Memecoin has come quickly and furiously from mainstream media, including attempts to associate holders of the token with white nationalism.
The sun dismissed this criticism by emphasizing that critics have every right to express their views during the first amendment.
‘Memecoins have a profit’
While protesters met the Memecoin troofids who attended Trump dinner, skepticism for meme -coins are not limited to outsiders.
At a fire chat during consensus 2025, Barstool described Sports founder Dave Portnoy Meme Coins as essentially “games” that questioned their lifetime.
“I get why people like it,” Portnoy said. “It’s a form of game, it’s a ponzi scheme. I don’t mean it in a negative way.”
Sun disagrees. Instead of seeing meme -coins such as game or ponzi schemes, he places them as legitimate segments in digital asset markets.
Sun pointed to tokens like DOGE and SHIB as examples of success stories that have helped users aboard crypto. He emphasized that Tron’s goal is to support “every single piece in crypto to grow and become mainstream.”
“I totally think Memecoins have a profit,” Sun told Coindesk. “It’s like doing business. Some succeed, some go to zero. It’s entrepreneurship.”
