Trump Admits He Doesn’t Know Who Changpeng Zhao Is

CEO of America, Donald Trump, was recently asked whether he had any idea who now-pardoned crypto-mogul Changpeng Zhao was. Trump replied that he had “no idea who he is.” He does, however, know what a horse, a giraffe and an elephant are.

That same reporter then reached out to CZ about whether he had heard of Donald Trump, to which he replied, “What? Yeah, of course. What do you mean? Of course, I’ve heard of him, he’s like the most famous man in the world. He pardoned me. Why wouldn’t I have heard of him? What are you talking about? Are you a real journalist? What is wrong with you??!”

Do YOU know who Changpeng Zhao is??

If you didn’t hear about it, Changpeng Zhao (AKA CZ, BI-Guy, or Peng-Boy as I like to call him) founded the most used crypto exchange, Binance, but served three months in prison and was banned from working in crypto for money laundering in 2023.

BUT THEN, plot twist, Donald Jesus Trump descended from heaven and granted the 21st richest person in the world a miracle: a royal pardon to go back to work in the crypto world.

BUT THEN, plot twist, Norah O’Donnell asked Trump on 60 Minutes why he pardoned him and Trump replied, “OK, are you ready? I don’t know who he is.”

Cool, cool, cool.

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Trump did say CZ was a businessman victim of Biden’s witch hunt and went on to say how he supported cryptocurrencies.

All of this seems to say that CZ’s pardon has nothing to do with a sense of what is right and wrong, but an olive branch to the crypto world and a signal that Trump is soft on crypto regulation.

What did you think, this wasn’t politics? Hold on, drink a glass of milk before I tell you this: it’s all been politics this whole time.

As White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt explained when the pardon happened, Trump had “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.”

But is it him executing his constitutional authority if he doesn’t know who he’s signing off? Or is this someone carefully guiding grandpa’s pen over the documents and executing their constitutional authority?

For more on this story: Trump Pardons Binance Co-Founder Changpeng Zhao For Some Reason