I think the surprise was actually that no one actually think Trump will be going through the route of having a memecoin, there is not the direction I think most people actually thought he would pick. There is nothing bad in creating or building a project on cryptocurrency but make sure it has utility or use case so that it can create a good adoption to the community, no matter how memecoins are been portrayed they will remain the same gamble coins I see them as. What most people want and why they are surprised isn’t this.
What surprised me was that I did not think and could not believe my eyes that a president would have the idea of creating a project and directly promoting it. Because it could negatively affect his political career.
And whether he creates a meme project or an altcoin project doesn't make much of a difference because the main purpose of crypto projects is just speculation and hype. Apart from bitcoin, there is no project that is reliable in the long term, even altcoins that claim to have utility and use cases like ETH, SOL...So even if Trump creates a project that has utility, that doesn't make it any different or more credible.
It's the worst combo imaginable.
A real Trump promoting a meme of his own
Who would have thought of that a few years ago..And his wife now - too. Who would be next to ride the train?