How much money is Trump making off his presidency?
How much money is Trump making off his presidency?
The president’s $2.2 billion windfall, briefly explained.
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Welcome to The Logoff: Donald Trump is making big bucks off of the presidency.
What’s happening? The president’s profiteering isn’t new, but financial disclosures released last night shed new light on exactly how much money Trump is making in office. The total for 2025: $2.2 billion, almost four times as much as the $622 million in revenue he reported in 2024.
That total includes more than $1.4 billion from two Trump family cryptocurrency projects — one of which is World Liberty Financial, which is 49 percent owned by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates. (That stake was purchased secretly just days before Trump’s 2025 inauguration, as the Wall Street Journal has reported, and shortly afterward,........
