While working families across the country struggled to get by, Donald Trump spent the past year and half working to enrich himself and his family. New financial disclosure reports show that 2025 marked a historic transfer of wealth into the Trump family’s pockets — especially through crypto ventures, an industry which Trump worked to deregulate while making hundreds of millions. The President himself made at least $2.2 billion in his first year back in the White House, including over $1 billion just from crypto alone. Government ethics watchdogs have been warning for months that Trump has been using his presidency to enrich his family while ordinary investors absorb all the losses. Trump promised to bring down costs for working families, but his presidency has been a windfall for exactly one family: his own.
By The Numbers
- Trump made at least $2.2 billion in income in 2025 while serving as President.
-
- Trump reported around $1.2 billion in total crypto-related income for 2025.
-
-
- Trump reported $635 million in income from licensing his name to Trump-branded meme coins.
-
-
-
- Trump reported $591 million in combined income from the Trump family’s crypto firm, including $236 million from token sales, $65 million from an equity stake sale, and $290 million from collecting fees from crypto wallets.
-
-
- Trump took home over $86 million in legal settlement income in 2025.
- Overall, the Trump family has taken home an estimated $2.3 billion in crypto profits since Trump took office again in January 2025.
- More than one million investors suffered roughly $2.25 billion in combined net losses on Trump-linked tokens over the same period the family profited.
Key Findings
Crypto Topped Trump Earnings In 2025, Earning Him Over $1 Billion in Personal Income. Crypto has become one of Trump’s largest sources of personal income, with digital-asset revenue now rivaling or exceeding what his real estate holdings generate. Trump reported around $1.2 billion in total crypto-related income for 2025, including $635 million in income from licensing his name to Trump-branded meme coins and $591 million in combined income from the Trump family’s crypto firm. Meanwhile, more than one million retail and secondary-market investors suffered roughly $2.25 billion in combined net losses on Trump-linked tokens over the same period the family profited.
- Trump Retains A Direct Financial Stake In Businesses Profiting From His Administration’s Policies. Instead of placing his assets in a blind trust overseen by an independent third party, Trump placed his holdings in a revocable trust managed by his son Donald Trump Jr. while remaining the trust’s sole beneficiary, meaning he has retained a direct financial stake in businesses profiting from his own policies. Shortly after taking office, Trump signed an executive order promoting crypto and paving the way for a digital asset stockpile.
While Earning Over $1 Billion, Trump Deregulated Crypto and Rolled Back Fraud Enforcement. Trump has paired his personal crypto windfall with a rollback of enforcement efforts against fraud. First, his administration paused a fraud case against a major investor in his family’s crypto firm. Then, in October 2025, Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who had served prison time for failing to stop the platform from being used for money tied to child sexual exploitation, drug trafficking, and terrorism financing. Binance had helped facilitate a $2 billion investment that flowed through the Trump family’s crypto firm stablecoin months earlier.
After Making Over $2 Billion, Trump Sued the IRS and Pushed His DOJ To Settle For A Tax Immunity Deal. In January 2026, Donald Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion. In May, the DOJ (led by Trump’s former personal attorney, Todd Blanche) announced it would be settling the case in May 2026 by ordering the IRS to permanently end all current and potential future audits and inquiries into Trump, his family, and their businesses — effectively immunizing the Trumps from federal tax law.
###