President Donald Trump holds most of his business assets privately, but an analysis of his official disclosures, property and financial records reveals a hefty sum of money made from cryptocurrency during his presidency.
The Trump Organization earned $802 million from crypto during the first half of 2025, according to a Reuters estimate. This overtook the family’s income from traditional businesses like real estate and licensing deals, which only made up $62 million in the same period.
Why It Matters
The Trump family’s increase in crypto profits represents a 17-fold increase from the same period in 2024.
Financial experts say this is a significant surge, as the family is now making more in crypto in six months than most Fortune 500 companies make in a year.
What To Know
World Liberty Financial brought Trump the heftiest fortune, with Liberty’s Gold Paper, token sales were $57 million in late 2024 and $618 million in the first half of 2025.
This netted a profit of $463 million for the Trump family in the first half of 2025.
“The Trump family’s wealth has reportedly surged by more than $800 million, a roughly 17-fold increase, largely tied to crypto holdings and the World Liberty Financial venture,” Kevin Thompson, the CEO of 9i Capital Group and the host of the 9innings podcast, told Newsweek. “While it’s common for former presidents to profit from their name through book deals or speaking engagements, that typically happens after they leave office.”
A lawyer for World Liberty said the Reuters calculations were misleading, however, writing in a statement: “The Alleged Valuation and Income Analysis of WLFI Is Inaccurate and Misleading.”
Trump also earns money from the Trump meme coin, $TRUMP. But with just an estimated 50 percent share, the coins are valued to have brought in $672 million in the first half of 2025.
“The majority of buyers are foreign entities. Eric Trump was pitching $20 million token packages in Dubai while his father sets U.S. crypto policy. Do you call that a business model? In my opinion, that’s a pay-to-play blueprint,” Michael Ryan, a finance expert and the founder of MichaelRyanMoney.com, told Newsweek.
What People Are Saying
Thompson told Newsweek: “What makes this situation unique is how transparent and normalized it’s become—an active president openly benefiting from market speculation fueled by his policies. It blurs the line between politics, business, and influence in a way we’ve never quite seen before.”
Ryan told Newsweek: “Unprecedented doesn’t even cover it. We’ve had presidents with conflicts before, but this is the first time a sitting president is simultaneously the regulator and the beneficiary of an industry he’s supposed to oversee. Biden got crucified over a documented $50k loan to his brother. Trump’s family is collecting hundreds of millions from overseas crypto investors while his administration fires crypto regulators and drops industry investigations.”
Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin, told Newsweek: “While the Trump family’s business ventures may be raising eyebrows given their relationship to the current president, it’s not historically unique. Past presidential families have been accused of ‘cashing in’ on their relationship to the Commander-of-Chief, though many of those efforts haven’t perhaps been as public as some of the current ones. Still, there will always be concern regardless of party on elected officials presenting their families with additional opportunities not available to other Americans.”
What Happens Next
Thompson said Trump serves as a potential case study for the many presidents to come.
“This will become one of the most fascinating case studies in modern presidential history, how a businessman leveraged every aspect of his brand and position to turn the presidency itself into an asset class,” Thompson said.
Ryan said Trump’s behavior has essentially normalized a presidency-for-profit model.
“When your family can pocket $800 million in six months by selling digital tokens to foreign buyers… Many of whom explicitly told Reuters they invested because of ‘proximity to the president’… Well, you’ve turned the Oval Office into a marketplace,” Ryan said.
“After a president leaves office, we used to worry about book deals and speaking fees. This time? The Trump family already extracted nearly a billion dollars during the presidency, with zero transparency on who the buyers are or what they expect in return. That’s a systematic corruption architecture built on blockchain. The real question isn’t how much they made. It’s what the buyers think they purchased.”
