Well, I would say trump edorsement and participation in crypto really brought adoption that has been making bitcoin to boom. He is a very influencer president with millions of followers on X. As he continues to tweet and support crypto, he did onboarded many thereby making BTC bullish

I don't think these people are seeking to manipulate the price of Bitcoin. Their decisions create uncertainty in the geopolitical arena, which in turn provokes investors to sell their assets. Naturally, investors are primarily getting rid of risky assets - altcoins and Bitcoin. This is followed by selling stocks. But Trump, compared to Biden, is not oppressing the crypto industry, but is trying to introduce it into the existing economy. At least that's how I see it. 

No, the Bitcoin reserve has nothing to do with it, it even played a disservice to Bitcoin, because no action followed the signing of the reserve decree, they did not start buying Bitcoin and everything is in an uncertain state, when they do not even know how they will replenish this reserve, except for confiscations, which seems to have affected Bitcoin more negatively than positively at the time of signing the decree. These are all manipulations that Bitcoin constantly faces, but despite this, it still continues to grow.

Even if that is manipulation, that will not stop Bitcoin to grow. Bitcoin will increase with or without Trump so we don't have to worry with that. We can see what happened to Bitcoin before Trump become a President where Bitcoin can increase and make ATH. But we can say that Trump made Bitcoin increase because people see this is a positive thing for Bitcoin and that lifted the price. But I can accept if some people giving credit to Trump. We can not deny that more support come from the countries will contribute a positive demand from people.

Yes, in my opinion, the idea of creating a strategic reserve in Bitcoin and altcoins was aimed at drawing the attention of crypto enthusiasts to Trump's policies. Many crypto enthusiasts even at first realized that the creation of such a reserve is impossible without the approval of several government agencies for which cryptocurrencies are inherently a competitor to national currencies. Expecting these agencies to support such volatile assets as Bitcoin, and even more so altcoins, seems very foolish.

If I’m not mistaken, majority of those who have agreed that bitcoin’s reaching $100k is due to Trump, are newbies in the market. They are only seeing the short-term effect of Trump, but if they’ve been here in the market for long and have witnessed how bitcoin performs every now and then, they will clearly understand that bitcoin can reach its all time high even without Trump.

Bitcoin has certainly high potentials that become an edge over other crypto coins, so there’s no need for some VIP’s to push it through, because its price will really surge high in due time. Trump may have an effect to bitcoin, but it’s always been temporary like any other prominent names.

Before the November elections, I already said that in order for Bitcoin to reach $100,000, we need a CATALYST/S that will push it's price to 6-digits. Not to brag, but I also said that Trump MIGHT be the catalyst that we are waiting for, and he really is the catalyst. While I'm grateful that he became the primary reason why Bitcoin went to $100,000, of course there will always be an opposite side of the story. There will always be people that will hate him because they might've lost their capital.

As for Bitcoin surging to $100,000 despite not having the presidential election, while this might be true, we need another catalyst that would push the prices, and at that time, there isn't any catalyst that can do it aside from him. I'll give credits to Trump and because of him, the sentiment of the investors turned way more bullish hence, it pushed the price higher, but still, let's not forget that he's also the reason why the market dumped heavily a few months ago because of this tariff drama that he also created.

So how would the market move without Trump? I think that's debatable. If someone else was president of the United States, yes, initially it wouldn't be so good for cryptocurrencies and we would see declines, but then it would recover.

Since Trump came in, there's been a lot of uncertainty in the market, nobody can trust him completely. There are a lot of people who think this guy is crazy, he can make decisions at any moment that will put the whole market on the back foot. we all know how much of an impact he had on the altcoin prices going down

Trump played a significant role in getting Bitcoin to 100k no doubt about that and sure the movement to that benchmark could have been slow if Trump factors was not in place, but that not withstanding, we can't also totally give in to all this pressure coming in from institutional investors who have chunk into Bitcoin a large amount of liqudities funds and wanting to control the market, since they are using the Trump government influence to interfere with Bitcoin market direction, in form of short term manipulation, based on regulations, so yeah Bitcoin is factored as an independent assets.