Here's Trump's executive order on "debanking" -- the practice of banks dropping customers based upon their political beliefs: https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...-all-americans
This executive order was from August 2025.
Gamblers have their own debanking issue. Many banks refuse to do business with professional gamblers. A few banks will even make you certify that your funds "didn't come from gambling" when you sign up for an account. This should be illegal, but isn't. Other banks have dropped known gamblers, including high profile ones like Daniel Negreanu.
Here's the main part of the order:
Quote:
The term “politicized or unlawful debanking” refers to an act by a bank, savings association, credit union, or other financial services provider to directly or indirectly adversely restrict access to, or adversely modify the conditions of, accounts, loans, or other banking products or financial services of any customer or potential customer on the basis of the customer’s or potential customer’s political or religious beliefs, or on the basis of the customer’s or potential customer’s lawful business activities that the financial service provider disagrees with or disfavors for political reasons.
The bolded part would seem to cover gamblers, but then it's followed by "for political reasons".
Unfortunately, gambling isn't all that political -- there are those for and against gambling on both sides of the aisle.
But could the definition be stretched to include gambling? Maybe. It could be argued that disapproving of gambling is a political position, and thus debanking someone for being a lawful gambler is against the requirements of this executive order.
It's worth watching. What do you guys think?
I have never been debanked, but in 2016-17 I was being treated extremely suspiciously by a major bank, to the point where I finally got tired of it and confronted them. The bank employee claimed there were no negative notes on my account and even showed me the screen where those notes would supposedly exist (it had nothing), but they could have still been hiding something by not showing me other screens. I will say that the harassment stopped once I confronted them. This odd behavior took place across several branches, and not all in the same area. I felt somewhat violated by this. Why were they treating me like a criminal?
Every time I took cash out, or deposited a semi-large check, I was given the third degree. The tellers acted like they were making conversation, but they were relentless in trying to keep it going and asking me for details. The conversation would go like this, when I'm withdrawing $7,000:
Teller: "So, what are you needing this cash for this weekend?"
Me: "Oh, I'm going to Vegas, I like to have enough money on me to gamble."
Teller: "Ah okay, so where do you like to gamble?"
Me: "Lots of places. Just wherever I happen to be. Places like Bellagio, Aria, Cosmopolitan..."
Teller: "So how long is the trip going to be? 2 days? 3 days? Longer?"
Me: "Probably 3 days. I'll see how it goes. Depends how I'm doing. If I lose everything I might come back early."
Teller: "So when you usually go, is it something like 3 days?"
etc etc etc
Felt like an FBI interrogation. So weird. As I said, when I finally confronted them after several times of this occurring (at different branches, as far as 100 miles apart), it stopped.
Would love to see this debanking made illegal so I can tell them to fuck off when they try to dig into my private business about what I'm doing with my money.
