The views of some people are sometimes so naive when there are some influencers or some politicians who say and relate to bitcoin are always considered as blessings and assume that they will have a big impact on bitcoin when honestly there is no need to be glorified like that because it is precisely they themselves who borrow the name bitcoin to make their popularity lifted not the other way around because with their presence or absence bitcoin will actually be fine.
Likewise with this case, there is a lot of discussion about Trump or his coin which is always glorified even though he also only wants to make his name considered good enough among bitcoiners so that his candidacy is easier and it is proven that now he has found his position.
Some folks label Trump's actions as a grift on bitcoin, yet it also could be labelled as another variation of an affinity scam, which largely is the same thing as a grift, even though people might better understand the concept of an affinity scam is to put yourself next to something like bitcoin and then to play off of the reputation of that thing (in this case bitcoin) in order to make yourself and/or your ideas seem more valuable. Surely it can become more difficult when someone like a USA president has a lot of power to make various kinds of changes (or proposals or actions) that can contribute towards pumping and/or dumping of the asset, in this case bitcoin... We surely cannot proclaim that Trump's actions are meaningless, especially when some of them have quite material impacts, whether referring to a full and unconditional pardon of Ross Ulbricht or various studies of bitcoin or putting of folks who seem to be quite a bit on the side of bitcoin into positions of power (even if some of them are quasi-shitcoiners too), very material impacts end up playing out that also may well contribute towards gaining support of bitcoiners who might have had otherwise been more vocally opposed to the various kinds of ways that Trump balances various policy direction attempts - including his tendencies towards self-serving can be overlooked if his self-serving seems to also align with either seemingly pro-bitcoin or at least a step in the direction of a less anti-bitcoin kind of an approach.
It is undeniable that there is an impact that will ultimately be generated when indeed some people like Trump, other politicians or ultimately Influencers who talk about bitcoin to the price increase which is an impact that will occur to bitcoin, but in the end we also understand there is always feedback generated, they do say as if it is selfless but in the end the benefits for their individuals from the results of leveraging or associating themselves with bitcoin are also very large in the end and I think even that is greater than the impact they have on bitcoin so that in the end in this case regardless they also use bitcoin as their own benefit for a much greater purpose because the benefits of increasing the value of bitcoin are only optional for them. The example of Trump alone where even he was hailed by many people who were based on bitcoin and crypto just because he gave a promise that many bitcoin lovers wanted when he was elected, meaning he already got what he wanted and the increase in the value of bitcoin was just more profit for Trump.
Indeed, not all will eventually crumble quickly because as you said there must be some that can survive for several years but in the end there is no need to focus too much on that because in the end our initial goal remains focused on bitcoin especially when talking about this $trump coin which even seems to be exaggerated news which in the end for now it seems that not a few people regret it and are trapped in shitcoin like this.
If Trump is alive for all four years of what is supposed to be his presidency term (referring to his age), then his shitcoin can potentially be pumped and dumped through the whole period, even though surely if Trump's various behaviors end up going too far overboard, there could be backlash that comes in a variety of ways, and even from a legal perspective, they are likely dancing on a very tight rope in terms of what Trump can get away with and not trigger some kind of an investigation or even obvious breaches of the Emoluments clause of the constitutions (which is supposed to prevent the president from being bribable by foreign powers and perhaps other readings of it), to the extent that the emoluments clause applies to him as he strives to be exempt from all laws and sometimes it seems that the Supreme Court has contributed towards the creation of a monster in terms of their seeming to want to bend over backwards to jump through all kinds of weird constitutional/legal interpretations to agree with some of his (and his counsel's) seemingly crazy-ass arguments in regards to his being exempt from various laws and/or abilities to be prosecuted... .and sure, he does not seem to be unwilling to push limits beyond credulity and potentially contribute towards potential constitutional crises depending on interpretations of how much he might be successful in pushing certain kinds of boundaries.
Bitcoiners might sometimes consider him to be aligned with bitcoiner interests, yet I doubt that is it always going to be very clear what the ramifications of some of his behaviors might be, whether it is pumping of his shitcoins or some of his other shit-stirring behaviors that normies (including bitcoiners) might believe that they like or that they are on similar teams until they don't like it anymore. His being "full of surprises" is a known character flaw that might not always end up playing out well in a variety of ways, whether financial systems or political systems or even military or policing systems. The impacts can end up overlapping, and we might not even see some of the ramifications of some of Trump's behaviors or how he might be compromised until later down the road, and so we might not even know the extent to which Bitcoin might end up being negatively affected by some of his behaviors, whether it is related to Trump coin or some other goofy behaviors that he might test out.
Indirectly this goes back to the decision of Trump himself because indeed his decision will be very continuous with others and create a domino effect of what he will decide later?
But I agree with what you said when talking about trump's shitcoin there will be a possibility that his pump and dump action will still be very potential to happen but in the end here our role must be careful because it would be very silly to continue to follow the flow and get stuck for the same thing several times. Especially for those bitcoiners, of course, they have to think more carefully whether it will be potentially good or not for them, as long as it has a big impact we should realize that being in shitcoin like this will only waste time, energy and of course your own money.
They are too lulled by the momentary gains at the end of the day that they forget an important thing that should not be forgotten.
Even though we can't blame those who fomo but should be with many things that have been felt before they should take the lessons that can be taken that shitcoin will remain shitcoin but most of them are already blinded by many ridiculous assumptions that in the end they always make the same mistake with fomo again and again.
Each of us still has to be skeptical of even number go up technology, including in bitcoin, since the power of bitcoin is not merely its number go up, but its ability to transact directly between normies (including us) and including big players and including institutions and including alleged criminals (not that I am promoting criminals) without getting permission in advance.... So sure, we might be lured into various inferior products, and sometimes we might not even know for sure the extent to which our wallets are allowing for transacting without surveillance or abilities to get locked.. ..so for sure, I would not be claiming that just staying away from shitcoins is the ONLY thing that we need to continue to attempt to be vigilant about...and so each of us likely just does his best to both protect our BTC and to keep a decent percentage of our coins in our own private wallets rather than being held in wallets that might be controllable by third parties. There are also platforms like NOSTR in which we can attempt to communicate without being censored.. and sure this forum strives to allow for as much free speech as possible, but at the same time, there might be certain kind of matters that the forum might not be comfortable to allow, which surely we saw nervousness around mixers, and it can be difficult to know if some of those services will be allowed to be discussed in the future.... .. so sometimes we might have to dance around some of the security and privacy topics.. even though each of us may well consider that we have rights to security and privacy in our transactions without anyone presuming that we are doing anything wrong merely because we would like to either mix our coins or coin join or create some plausible deniability in regards to how many coins we have and which addresses are our coins versus some other person.
What you say is not wrong because even if it's bitcoin, of course there must be a special concern and actually knowing the risks of being in bitcoin, I think it has become a special concern that in the end being in bitcoin does not mean we have to give ourselves completely. We have a mind and of course we realize we depend on ourselves and bitcoin is only an intermediary so skepticism must still be one of the things that must exist but however when comparing it with shitcoin of course we also rethink because in the end “feasibility” becomes one of the things that must be realized so that the choice is of course bitcoin is more worth it so even if we have skepticism in the end it will not be greater than with shitcoin which makes us realize that things worth it like bitcoin must be maintained.