U.S. President Donald Trump today robustly defended the estimated $1.2 billion (€1.1 billion) he accumulated through cryptocurrency ventures in 2025, dismissing critics of his surging personal wealth by declaring that “everybody is winning.”
“You know why I’m making profits? Because the stock market is up, everybody is making profits,” Trump told reporters as he prepared to board a maiden flight on a new Air Force One aircraft gifted by Qatar.
When pressed on allegations that he is leveraging the presidency for unprecedented personal enrichment, the 80-year-old Republican leader argued his assets are shielded by independent management.
v”I don’t handle my personal finances, we have trusts that manage my money,” Trump asserted. “I made a lot of money before becoming President. They invest my money and I don’t talk to them.”
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Despite the President’s emphasis on his pre-political business career, financial disclosures released Tuesday by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) reveal that the bulk of these specific windfalls stem entirely from activities launched around his return to the White House.
According to the official filings, the President’s crypto-heavy income includes two massive pillars:
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World Liberty Financial (WLF): Trump pulled in approximately $550 million (€482 million) through his ties to this family-backed cryptocurrency platform.
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The $TRUMP Token: He secured an additional $635 million (€577 million) via a licensing agreement for a cryptocurrency bearing his name, which aggressively hit the market just hours before his inauguration in January 2025.
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Driven heavily by this electronic asset boom, the former real estate mogul’s personal net worth has nearly tripled, skyrocketing from $2.3 billion in 2024 to $6.5 billion in 2026, according to Forbes tracking.
The financial boom has drawn intense scrutiny from ethics watchdogs. Critics point to blatant conflicts of interest, noting that the Trump administration has actively pursued aggressive deregulation of the digital asset sector since taking office—policy shifts that have directly caused the value of his private holdings to surge.
