Trump reports earning over US$1.4 billion from crypto ventures

US President Donald Trump reported more than US$1.4 billion in income from his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now derives most of his income from digital assets that have benefited from his policies, according to a review of his latest financial disclosures on Tuesday. The filings, his annual disclosure for 2025 with the US Office of Government Ethics, disclosed that his companies received almost US$800 million from World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture he and his sons co-founded. That income, which the president splits with family members, included more than US$520 million from sales of crypto tokens and more than US$250 million from the sale of interests in the World Liberty business. Trump reported another US$635 million from the sale of his Trump meme coins. You know why I’m profiting, because the stock market’s going up, everybody’s profiting US President Donald Trump Trump on Wednesday defended the earnings, saying “everybody’s profiting” from his time in power. “You know why I’m profiting, because the stock market’s going up, everybody’s profiting,” Trump told reporters, as he prepared to take his first flight on a new Air Force One plane gifted by Qatar. Asked about criticisms that he was using his position to enrich himself, the billionaire president said his earnings were placed in blind trusts to ensure that he could not do so. “I don’t get involved in my personal (finances), we have funds that run my money,” Trump said. “I’ve made a lot of money before I became president, and they invest my money, and I don’t talk to them.” The news underlines how crypto has transformed the president’s fortunes. In his disclosure a year ago, for example, he reported US$57.35 million from token sales at World Liberty, which then leapt nine-fold in this year’s filing. Reuters recently estimated the Trump family has made at least US$2.3 billion from crypto-related projects since Trump returned to the White House in early 2025. On taking office, Trump began to put in place policies and initiatives that the industry saw as beneficial, from implementing federal rules for stablecoins to dialling back policing of the industry by the US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission. For 2025, the president also reported over US$80 million in income from settlements with various media companies and US$52 million in income from his company licensing his name to overseas property developers, driven principally by deals with Middle Eastern partners. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement: “Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged – or will ever engage – in conflicts of interest. President Trump proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world through executive actions.” Kelly added: “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people – and any so-called ‘reporters’ pushing otherwise are recycling the same, tired, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade.” While the White House has previously said the president’s business interests are currently overseen by his children, the president remains the beneficiary of the assets in the trust that ultimately receives the income. Although crypto is by far the largest driver of income for Trump, his traditional businesses – in particular golf courses and resorts – continue to bring in millions. Trump reported a 15 per cent rise in revenue at his golf and resort facilities to just over US$500 million in 2025. The strongest increases were at clubs where the president has spent considerable time since his 2025 inauguration. Revenue at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, which Trump dubbed the Winter White House, soared to US$77 million from US$50 million in 2024, while revenue at his golf club in nearby West Palm Beach jumped 27 per cent. Revenue fell at Trump’s Los Angeles course last year. A spokesperson for the Trump family business, The Trump Organization, said in a statement that “the breadth and depth of this filing further underscores our commitment to transparency. At nearly 1,000 pages, it represents one of the most comprehensive financial disclosure reports ever submitted and demonstrates a level of financial transparency unmatched in presidential history”. Don Fox, a former acting head of the federal ethics office, which oversees ethics regulations for federal workers and reviews financial disclosures, including Trump’s, said presidents and vice-presidents are exempt from the ethics laws that prohibit conflicts of interest among executive branch employees. “Every president in the post-Watergate era has managed his finances as though he were subject to conflicts of interest,” said Fox. “With Trump, those norms are just totally out the window.” “He makes the case better than anyone that it’s time for additional ethics reforms. I think in terms of legislation, one thing that could be done would be to limit the types of investments he and the vice-president … can hold.” Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse

Trump reports earning over US$1.4 billion from crypto ventures

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Token sales and meme coin royalties are the new driver of the US president’s personal wealth. He says ‘everybody’s profiting’.