Just goes to show little attention he's paying. Hardly anyone's interested in it as a payment mechanism. Most people see it as a dollar extracting mechanism.
The US is uniquely shit when it comes to banking, I get the impression sending money for a goat in Somalia works better, but much of the rest of the world has conventional payment mechanisms that are instant and free.
He might be holding bitcoin already and ready to preach the maximalist words hehehe.
In any case, agreed! He also ignored or he might be unfamiliar to the speculation that tether is loaning out USDT that might be responsible for the pump.