Former President Donald Trump riffed on musician and former child star Miley Cyrus being “such a liberal” while addressing comments to her father, Billy Ray Cyrus and a large audience at a Bitcoin conference in Nashville on Saturday.

Trump was the keynote speaker at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday, during which he made note of some celebrities and other speakers who are in his camp, including musician Kid Rock and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican Sen. Rand Paul and others.

It was then that he brought up the country star and former judge on NBC’s The Voice, and made the quip about the singer’s famous daughter.

“Billy Ray Cyrus is here, where is Billy Ray, he’s around here someplace,” Trump said, praising the 62-year-old for performing at the funeral of Corey Comperatore – who was killed in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 by a bullet intended for Trump.

Spotting the country and pop singer, Trump said, “He’s a conservative guy. I said, ‘How did you get such a liberal daughter?’ How had that happened, Billy Ray?’”

The comment sparked laughter from many of those in attendance, although a local television camera that recorded the comment did not manage to capture Cyrus’s reaction.

Miley Cyrus was critical of Trump before and after he won the 2016 election and at one point vowed to leave the country but later changed her mind.

Trump accepted an invitation to speak at Saturday’s Nashville conference which CNBC described as “the biggest bitcoin conference of the year.” The network reported:

Trump taking the main stage to directly address the bitcoin community is the latest in a months-long campaign to appeal to the crypto contingent, including accepting donations in virtual tokens, pledging to end President Joe Biden’s “war on crypto,” and advocating that all future bitcoin be made in America. It is also quite the about-face by the Republican presidential nominee.

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Bitcoin 2024 conference organizers say they were briefly in talks to have Vice President Kamala Harris appear at the conference, though she ultimately declined. But billionaire businessman Mark Cuban posted on X that the Harris campaign had reached out with questions about crypto, so it appears the vice president is looking into this space and potentially figuring out where her policies, if elected president, could land.