Trump raked in more than $1bn from crypto businesses in 2025

Donald Trump at the Washington Hilton in Washington DC on 26 June 2026. Photograph: Evan Vucci/Reuters

Donald Trump

Dara Kerr and agencies

Wed 1 Jul 2026 01.29 BST

Prefer the Guardian on Google

Donald Trump raked in more than $1bn from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Monday shows, giving a substantial boost to his annual income.

In his second term, the president and his family have heavily invested in digital money and various crypto businesses with Trump announcing at the start of 2025 that he wanted the US to be the “crypto capital of the world”. Trump’s crypto earnings are in addition to profit from his legal settlements, real estate and royalty deals.

Many of the president’s crypto ventures were mere startups when he took the oath of office, but now have eclipsed in revenue much of his vast property portfolio that took decades to accumulate. This rise has been fueled by billionaire investors and Trump’s move to quash a federal crackdown on the industry.

Trump got more than $500m from his flagship World Liberty Financial business selling new crypto products, including “governance tokens”, according to the required annual disclosure report with the office of government ethics for 2025. The report also showed another crypto business, CIC Digital LLC, which took in more than $600m from sales of souvenir-type “meme” coins stamped with Trump’s face that launched days before his inauguration.

“Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged – or will ever engage – in conflicts of interest,” said Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson. “President Trump proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world through executive actions, supporting legislation like the GENIUS Act, and other commonsense policies to drive innovation and economic opportunity for all Americans.”

Kelly added that “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”.

Trump’s crypto ventures, including his tokens and coins, have plunged in value since sales began.

Trump also made millions last year from selling Trump-branded Bibles, sneakers and other small items in another unprecedented move for the presidency. In the Trump-branded watches category alone, the president earned $4.7m.

The rise of crypto relative to Trump’s property is especially noteworthy given that Trump racked up tens of millions from fees and licensing deals in a flurry of new hotel, resort and condo deals overseas. Many of those countries were negotiating with the US over tariffs, military aid and other important matters.

A property in the United Arab Emirates took in $10.4m. One in Saudi Arabia being built by a real estate developer close to the ruling family sent the president’s company $9m. And one in Bucharest, Romania, and another in Qatar sent Trump $5m each.

The disclosure report also detailed the president earning more than $86m from five separate legal settlements with media and social media companies, including ABC, CBS, YouTube, Meta and X (formerly Twitter).

You should buy some crypto now.

Everything is within buy zones at the moment.

I'd a bet to myself you'd be the first responder

Far too cryptic is crypto pour moi ... like modern music, its a Whoosh, as ouDbD often says .

I'd a bet to myself you'd be the first responder

It depends on which Trump-linked crypto investment someone made and when they bought and sold.

The Trump family

The Trump family has been extremely profitable from its crypto ventures. Recent financial disclosures show Donald Trump reported well over $1 billion in crypto-related income during 2025, largely from ventures such as World Liberty Financial and licensing revenue from the $TRUMP memecoin.

Retail investors

The picture is much less favourable for most outside investors.

$TRUMP memecoin

1. Investors who bought very early—particularly around launch—and sold into the initial rally could have made very large profits.
2. Many people who bought after the price surged experienced significant losses as the token later fell well below its peak.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI)

1. Reuters estimated that while the Trump family earned billions from token sales and related businesses, outside investors collectively experienced hundreds of millions of dollars in paper losses based on market prices at the time of its investigation.
2. Some early purchasers remain profitable, particularly if they bought at the initial presale price. Others cannot fully realise gains because portions of their holdings have remained subject to lock-up periods.

Overall

If you divide investors into broad groups:

As with many memecoins, timing mattered far more than simply owning a Trump-branded crypto asset.

It's also worth distinguishing between:

1. The businesses (which have generated substantial revenue for the Trump family), and
2. The tokens themselves (whose prices have been much more volatile and have not consistently rewarded later investors).

Dimdoos S B

Trump was not invovled in cypto - but his son Barron was, So his son convinced him to go for it in a system designed by Barron Trrump. What he did with it before beng became Preoident in January 2025 was clear, He sold out the lot before he beam President and the above is hogwash gained fom the Inernet.

The Guardian is not a relaible news source - it is the vindcw o/f Communism in the UK and the king of media liars.

Can you ever provide any sources to substantiate your claim?

No, because you are either using backward sources like 5Chan, or you just make stuff up.

However, I suppose nowadays, even 5Chan have turned on Trump.

Remember the outrage over the 4 or 5 million that Hunter Biden supposedly accrued from Ukraine ?

Okay, I'll save this thread, since it's such a good laugh. While Denise has apparently lost 20% of her investment value...I'll provide a call that will provide a minimum of 1000%(one thousand percent) over the next 6 months.

Brave call, huh?

Well, here it is...

S(Sonic) - It's a massively undervalued layer 1 chain that, and i know this will be Greek to you guys, is also EVM compatible.

Here is its currently chart...as you can see its called Sonic and its currently valued at $0.022(just over 2 cents) and my prediction is that it will go to at least $0.22.

Lets see if we can beat Denis's negative 20% hahaha

Bozo's entire presidency has been about enriching himself and his family.

The Drumpf crime family should all be behind bars . . . instead the egotistical clown is waging pointless and expensive wars while trying to plaster his ugly face or name all over stations, buildings, passports and banknotes.

Down 20%….not possible. The Australian stock market index is flat for the year and only down 6% from its peak in February. The FTSE global index is up 13%. Which means the portfolio in question is running 29% below where a passive investment should be.

Don’t even think about it, get help.

We'll never hear what those stocks are.

lol 20% down in a market that is almost entirely up year on year over the last 5 years.

It's the short term narrative propagated in the media... a deliberate distortion of the actual truth...and the lefties on here swallow it like elixir because the hate the Donald ..they don't care for context... it's just grrr!!! for no rational reason... emotional hysteria because of feelings...

.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/world/europe/trump-world-leaders-corruption-wealth.html

News Analysis

President Trump’s earnings in office are at a level once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president.

The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.

Meanwhile my call is up 15.8%

$0.0222 to $0.0257

Lol, we may be up 20% by the end of the day.

Testing