Trump Sues Big Banks; Liberals Hate it

Brian Hicks

Posted January 21, 2026

Imagine this…

One ordinary morning, you sit down with a cup of coffee, open your laptop, and log into your bank account to pay bills. Electric. Mortgage. Insurance.

The mundane mechanics of modern life that require no thought because they’ve always just worked.

But instead of seeing your familiar balance and scheduled payments, a red banner flashes across the screen: “Your account has been restricted. Please contact customer support.” 

Your debit card fails at the grocery store. Your automatic payments bounce. Your transfers don’t go through. There was no warning, no missed payment, no fraud alert, and no explanation that actually explains anything.

Worse, your daughter’s college tuition doesn’t get paid.

She’s forced to leave.

You haven’t committed a crime. You haven’t violated the law. Yet overnight, you’ve been quietly and efficiently de-banked — financially erased without due process.

This isn’t some dystopian thought experiment anymore. In 2026, this is a real and growing risk, and it’s now entered the political, legal, and financial mainstream.

Debanking Has Gone Mainstream — and Political

The concept of debanking used to live on the fringes, discussed mostly by crypto entrepreneurs, politically controversial figures, or businesses deemed “high risk” by regulators.

That changed the moment reports surfaced that Donald Trump may pursue legal action against JPMorgan Chase over allegations of being pressured out of banking relationships.

Whether Trump ultimately sues, settles, or simply uses the issue as a political cudgel is beside the point.

The significance lies in the precedent. If a U.S. president — with teams of lawyers, accountants, and resources — can find himself cut off or constrained by the banking system, then the illusion that “this could never happen to me” collapses instantly.

Love Trump or hate him, the message is the same: Access to the financial system is no longer guaranteed. It is conditional. And that realization is far more destabilizing and frightening than inflation headlines or rate hikes.

What Debanking Really Is — and Why It Should Terrify You

Debanking is not about fraud prevention or criminal behavior. It is about risk management and, more specifically, reputational and regulatory risk.

Banks operate in an environment where the cost of being wrong is often greater than the cost of being unfair. If a customer is deemed politically sensitive, regulator-unfriendly, controversial, or simply not worth the compliance burden, banks are incentivized to sever the relationship quickly and quietly.

There is no formal appeals process. There is no courtroom where you can plead your case. There is often not even a clear explanation beyond vague language about “policy.”

That’s when people discover a truth they were never meant to think about: Money held in a bank is not fully owned — it is permissioned. And permission can be revoked.

Why Gold Comes Roaring Back in a Debanking World

This is the environment where gold stops being an abstract hedge and starts becoming a necessity again. Gold does not require a login, a compliance department, or an approval chain. It cannot be frozen by policy memo or deactivated by algorithm. For thousands of years, gold has served one function above all others: financial sovereignty. When trust in institutions weakens — not just trust in currencies, but trust in access itself — gold doesn’t merely rise in price. It rises in relevance.

And rise it has in this backdrop. To record highs!

Debanking accelerates a psychological shift that inflation alone never could. Investors stop asking how much yield they’re earning and start asking whether their wealth can be arbitrarily restricted. And when that question becomes central, gold reasserts itself not as a relic but as an anchor.

Silver’s Parallel Role — Monetary Metal Meets Strategic Material

Silver follows the same path, but with a powerful twist. Unlike gold, silver straddles two worlds simultaneously. It is a monetary metal with centuries of history, and it is a critical industrial input embedded deeply in modern technology, energy systems, AI infrastructure, and electrification. In a world where trust in financial institutions is eroding at the same time that physical infrastructure demand is exploding, silver becomes more than a hedge — it becomes leverage.

Debanking doesn’t just push people toward safety. It pushes them toward assets that exist outside the banking rails altogether, assets that are tangible, finite, and indispensable to the modern economy.

Crypto Didn’t Predict This Moment — It Was Built for It

Long before debanking became a headline, crypto warned that this day would come. The original promise of cryptocurrency was never just speculation or price appreciation.

It was sovereignty. Self-custody. Censorship resistance. The ability to hold and transfer value without requiring permission from an intermediary that could change its mind tomorrow.

Crypto doesn’t care who you voted for. It doesn’t shut down because compliance thresholds shift.

If you control your private keys, you control your money. Period.

That’s why every debanking incident — especially high-profile ones — pours fuel on crypto adoption. Not because crypto is perfect, but because the alternative is increasingly fragile, conditional, and politicized.

The Problem: Gold Is Sovereign — but Not Native to the Digital World

And yet gold has a limitation. While it is the ultimate store of value, it is not natively digital. It doesn’t move easily across borders. It doesn’t integrate seamlessly into modern financial systems. It excels at preserving wealth, but not at transacting in a 24/7, global, digital economy. Until now, investors were forced to choose between the trust of gold and the functionality of digital assets.

That trade-off no longer exists.

NatGold: Gold Without Banks, Without Gatekeepers

This is where NatGold changes everything. NatGold is not paper gold. It is not an ETF. It is not a derivative dependent on custodians, clearinghouses, or bank counterparties. NatGold represents verified, certified, in-ground gold reserves, tokenized on blockchain infrastructure. That distinction is critical. Because you cannot de-bank a gold reserve that never touches the banking system in the first place.

NatGold merges the permanence of gold with the portability of blockchain and the sovereignty of self-custody. It does not require a bank account to exist. It does not rely on institutional permission. It exists independently of the systems now proving themselves increasingly unreliable.

Why NatGold Is the Ultimate Anti-Debanking Asset

Debanking weaponizes financial infrastructure. NatGold removes infrastructure as a weapon entirely. Banks can freeze accounts, but they cannot freeze a token you control. Institutions can revoke access, but they cannot revoke blockchain ownership. Regulations can change overnight, but geology does not. Gold in the ground does not care about politics, and tokenized correctly, it doesn’t require permission either.

In a world where financial access itself has become political, NatGold offers something radical: neutrality.

This Is Bigger Than Trump — and Bigger Than Politics

Trump’s potential lawsuit didn’t create this moment. It exposed it. Debanking is a symptom of a financial system under immense strain — over-centralized, over-regulated, and increasingly used as a tool of control rather than service.

Gold, silver, crypto, and now NatGold are not rebellion assets. They are insurance assets. Insurance against censorship. Insurance against institutional fragility. Insurance against waking up one morning and discovering that your money still exists — but you no longer have access to it.

The Only Question That Matters Now

The old investing question was simple: What will go up in price?

The new question is far more urgent and far more dangerous to ignore: What can’t be turned off?

Gold passes that test.

Crypto passes that test.

NatGold combines both — and removes the weakest link of all: the bank.

Once you truly understand debanking, you realize this shift isn’t optional.

It’s inevitable.

Do you remember the Occupy Wall Street protests that began in 2011? Do you remember liberal senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren pushing to “break up the big banks”?

Now Trump is doing it. Something tells me liberals won’t support his efforts.

But you don’t have to support Trump to achieve this. Just reserve NatGold tokens to ensure you’re a part of the solution and the future.

Get to the good, green grass first…

The Prophet of Profit,

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Brian is a founding member and President of Angel Publishing. He writes about general investment strategies for Wealth Daily and Energy and Capital. Brian is the managing editor and investment director of R.I.C.H Report  (Retired Independent Carefree Healthy), New World Assets and Extreme Opportunities. For more on Brian, take a look at his editor’s page.

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