If politicians could ban Bitcoin, they would have done it by now.
They can't ban it.

Let us say for example a law to ban bitcoin was passed in the US, the price will go way higher simply because of the difficulty of buying it. Some people will still buy bitcoin even if it's declared illegal there.  

I think the prices will most definitely drop if Trump would ban bitcoin, simply due to the fear of people owning it. I have no doubts that majority of the Americans will sell, while the others will just hide their coins on their wallets and not use them for now.

P.S. Governments can't ban Bitcoin per se, just as they can't ban torrents, but they can definitely make the ownership of bitcoin illegal. Probably by giving penalties like jail time and such.

I don't think the price will drop if Trump bans the bitcoin. Most of the platforms and users are not in the US, most of them are in Europe so I think it'll affect it a little bit. If OP is just referring about the bitcoin then Ethereum and other platforms will lively go pump in the market.

 There are countries that banned BTC. They can't however stop their people from using it and this will also happen in US if Trump ban BTC, the government just have no jurisdiction over a p2p network but then the price will certainly dip if Trump announce it. I'm not gonna try holding mine if there is a chance to profit, I would sell mine for I know I might be able to profit from it.

Oh,come on.The Donald Trump crypto tweets topic is all over the forum during the last few days.
Can we just STFU about it?
The bitcoin price is now stable and the FUD wave is gone(for now).Donald Trump might not be president after 2020.
If bitcoin gets banned in the USA,it's price will go down for sure,but the blockchain will survive.Americans will have to use VPNs or Tor in order to trade BTC after such ban.

Trump is not popular among the public and many of his decisions are not been accepted by the public at large. I do not know what is his intentions when he is giving such statements about the bitcoins but overall this is sad for bitcoin community. I hope he changes his opinion about bitcoin soon.

Wrong. If the US govt decides to ban Bitcoin, it'll definitely affect crypto companies in the US, like exchanges, as well as the entire crypto ecosystem in this country. Also, with a bitcoin ban, you can bet your ass that we won't see Bakkt or a Bitcoin ETF (so, it'll also affect those US-based companies and financial institutions that want to jump into the btc bandwagon), meaning no "massive influx of fresh capital from institutional investors" which is what the BTC community wants in order to see the price and the value of their BTC stash skyrocket.

USA is one of the biggest players in the crypto market, a ban, or something similar on bitcoin in the US, will 110% have a negative effect in the Bitcoin price, and god knows if it'll cause a snowball effect in the rest of world. Then again, chances of seeing a ban on Bitcoin from the US are so low that most of the time I consider discussing the matter a complete waste of time.

May be I will have another chance to buy some more Bitcoin. Those who are truly into Bitcoin they know that it's not going to die very soon in fact never.

OP: If Trump ban Bitcoin then it will be ban from USA, do you think people from the other countries care about it much. In fact they will take this chance and become more richer than Americans :-)

well sure they can. trump could even do it himself. in 1933, FDR banned private ownership of gold by executive order, and required people to sell it to the government at a fixed price. you don't think they could do that again?

of course it wouldn't kill bitcoin, but driving it into the black market would have a pretty big effect.