Trump and the Irish tech bros: How the ‘crypo president’ is winning over Silicon Valley

A day in the life of Donald Trump’s presidency can feel like a political lifetime given the significance of his policy shifts. So eight years, politically speaking, is a very long time indeed. It was in January 2017 that the billionaire Collison brothers, Patrick and John, publicly slammed Mr Trump’s immigration policies. The Limerick natives pledged tens of thousands of dollars to the American Civil Liberties Union to help fight the US president’s plans for a travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries. A spokesperson for their online payments company Stripe said at the time that the policies were…