Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse responded directly to President Trump’s Truth Social post declaring America the crypto capital of the world, adding his own verdict on what he called the Anti-Crypto Army’s failed campaign against the digital asset industry.
“The Anti-Crypto Army was defeated by the courts, by the voters, and by Trump,” Garlinghouse wrote. “It never made policy, legal or political sense.”
His post arrived after Trump pledged to codify a future-proof digital asset market structure that cannot be undone by crypto haters, marking the president’s first public statement on crypto market structure since March.
What Garlinghouse Was Referring To
For Ripple the Anti-Crypto Army had a specific face. The SEC under Gary Gensler sued Ripple in 2020, alleging XRP was an unregistered security. The lawsuit defined the company’s existence for years, cost hundreds of millions in legal fees, and kept institutional capital away from XRP throughout one of the strongest bull markets in crypto history.
Judge Analisa Torres ruled in 2023 that XRP secondary market sales were not securities. The case that was supposed to destroy Ripple became the legal foundation for XRP’s regulatory clarity that the CLARITY Act is now writing into permanent federal law.
“Combatting financial innovation only helped protect those that wanted to keep an old, often broken, system in place,” Garlinghouse said.
What Comes Next
The CLARITY Act is advancing through the Senate with a 75% probability of becoming law in 2026 according to Galaxy Research. If passed it permanently codifies XRP’s commodity status, removes SEC jurisdiction, and gives Ripple the federal framework it has been building toward for a decade.
Trump’s post and Garlinghouse’s response signal the same thing from different angles. The regulatory war is over. The building has begun.
