Scaramucci blames Trump’s memecoin for the CLARITY Act’s Senate collapse

The SkyBridge founder says the TRUMP token was the main reason Democrats walked away from crypto market structure legislation Anthony Scaramucci has found a culprit for the stalled CLARITY Act, and it has a ticker symbol. Speaking at the SALT London conference in early November 2026, the SkyBridge Capital founder said President Donald Trump’s Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin was the “singular reason” the crypto market structure bill failed in the Senate. He also went further on X, asking what Russian President Vladimir Putin has on Trump. Scaramucci is a former Trump communications director who has become one of the president’s loudest critics. A token launch, a failed vote The timeline matters here. Trump launched the TRUMP memecoin just before his January 2025 inauguration. Roughly twenty months later, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act hit a wall. A procedural vote on September 15, 2026 came in at 49 to 50 against. The bill needed 60 votes to clear cloture, which is the Senate’s mechanism for ending debate and moving to a final vote. Scaramucci’s argument is that the memecoin poisoned the bipartisan well. By his account, Democrats had shown a willingness to back digital asset r...