{"id":17460,"date":"2026-04-09T01:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/17460\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:01:13","slug":"out-of-touch-eric-trump-roundly-mocked-for-comment-about-drinking-wine-and-trading-500-million-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/17460\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Out of Touch\u2019: Eric Trump Roundly Mocked for Comment About Drinking Wine and Trading $500 Million in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/80eea7ca88f7a933596b04d84570fc6c.jpeg\" alt=\"Eric Trump\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"541\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Eric Trump      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Screenshot<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/eric-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eric Trump;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Eric Trump&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Eric Trump<\/a> was roasted on social media for describing a bizarre scenario in which he was drinking wine while trading half a billion dollars in bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">During a Fox Business segment on Thursday morning, Eric complained about the current state of e-commerce, specifically citing the inability to send a \u201cswift wire transfer\u201d past 5 p.m. on a Friday. He then compared that to the relative ease that comes with transferring cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u201cHow is that modern-day finance?\u201d Eric continued. \u201cYou can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11 p.m. while having a glass of wine with your wife, for virtually zero fees. How is a system this lethargic? Why does it take you 120 days to go through \u2018Know Your Customer\u2019 with your bank if you want to get a home mortgage? It doesn\u2019t make any sense. Cryptocurrency is going to fix every single one of these issues, and Bitcoin is digital gold. Bitcoin is going to be one of the greatest stores of value we\u2019ve ever seen \u2014 ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Because Eric described a scenario that very few people could ever relate to, he was harshly criticized and accused of being \u201cout of touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/out-of-touch-eric-trump-roundly-mocked-for-comment-about-drinking-wine-and-trading-500-million-in-bitcoin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018Out of Touch\u2019: Eric Trump Roundly Mocked for Comment About Drinking Wine and Trading $500 Million in Bitcoin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u2018Out of Touch\u2019&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u2018Out of Touch\u2019: Eric Trump Roundly Mocked for Comment About Drinking Wine and Trading $500 Million in Bitcoin<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mediaite;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mediaite&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Trump Screenshot Eric Trump was roasted on social media for describing a bizarre scenario in which he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[81,9979,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-17460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eric-trump","8":"tag-eric-trump","9":"tag-fox-business","10":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116372051648331886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}