Trump’s Take
$1,804,591,257
Cashing in on the presidency
“Trump’s Take” is a real-time financial tracker documenting the cash and gifts that President Donald Trump and his family have received by selling the presidency. For our purposes, the family includes President Trump, Melania Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump, hereafter referred to collectively as the “Trump family,” but excludes Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
Trump has made most of the cash by launching his own crypto ventures—reversing his outspoken, skeptical stance on crypto—while aggressively deregulating the industry. Trump takes a cut in cash from the trades and sales of the family’s coins and tokens along with stablecoin interest. The “take” is the cash he has received calculated in real time, based on actual trading activity and stablecoin interest. It can only go up. We have also added the value of the gifts, legal settlements, and the income from Melania Trump’s documentary paid directly to Trump or to his presidential library.
Due to the complex nature of these earnings, which are channeled through multiple financial vehicles, our calculations are constantly being updated and refined. A comprehensive methodology detailing the determination of the Trump family’s crypto income is available here.
We have excluded income from assets Trump had before his November 2024 election victory—including real estate, hotels, licensing deals, and more—even though their value has inarguably increased as a result of his election. We made one notable exception by including income from his first crypto venture, World Liberty Financial Inc. (WLFI). WLFI launched in September 2024, and nearly all of the income from this venture was made after his election in November of the same year.
$7.5B
Trump’s net worth increase
Trump’s crypto ventures have added at least $7.5 billion of “paper worth” to his overall net worth since early 2024, with most of that gain occurring after his election. This represents the estimated value of the family’s flagship crypto venture holdings and Trump Media, Truth Social’s parent company, which holds billions of dollars in Bitcoin. As of publication, this growth in net worth remains unrealized, and therefore is not yet reflected in the total take. However, it has the potential to generate billions of dollars in additional cash for the Trump family when sold, at which point we will reflect it in the total.
Trump changed his position on crypto, and then his family made billions.
Before
After
$208M
TRUMP MEME COIN
The “Trump meme coin,” known as $TRUMP, is a speculative cryptocurrency asset that was launched just before he was inaugurated in January 2025. An investigation from May 2025 revealed that two Trump-aligned companies hold a significant majority of the coins.
$1.058B
CASHING IN ON CRYPTO TOKENS
A Trump family company, DT Marks DEFI LLC, has received income from the sale of WLFI governance tokens. While these tokens were designed to be nontransferable, WLFI initiated a process to allow the tokens to be traded on crypto exchanges, which started on September 1, 2025.
$21M
PROFITING FROM STABLECOIN RESERVES
The Trump family has claimed to own as much as 75 percent of World Liberty Financial Inc., the entity behind the $USD1 stablecoin. Through a complex series of holding companies, the family is “entitled to interest earned on the reserve assets backing $USD1.” This arrangement has funneled millions of dollars in income to the Trumps, creating a steady revenue stream from a financial instrument linked to the U.S. dollar.
So what?
Who buys this stuff? These crypto schemes open up many opportunities for corruption. Honest Americans can easily wonder: If a foreign company wanted a lawsuit dropped or a foreign country wanted tariff relief, would they simply need to buy enough meme coins? If a criminal were looking for a pardon, would they just need to purchase secret digital tokens? A September report from Accountable.US showed tokens from one of the Trump family’s crypto ventures were “sold to a variety of highly suspicious entities that appear to have connections to North Korea, Iran and Russia, as well as known money-laundering platform Tornado Cash.” The possibilities, and the consequences for the American people, are endless. There is plenty we still don’t know, but what we know now is already concerning.
$400M
“PALACE IN THE SKY”: QATARI GIFT PLANE TO TRUMP
“The Air Force estimates it will cost less than $400 million to modify a luxury aircraft gifted from the Qatari government into President Donald Trump’s flying command center … The White House announced … it would accept Qatar’s offer to gift the president a modified Boeing 747-8, worth roughly $400 million. The plan is to use the gifted plane throughout the rest of Trump’s term and then donate it to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation after Trump leaves office.”
– Defense News, June 5, 2025
$28M
FIRST FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT
Amazon has agreed to a $40 million deal to license a documentary about Melania Trump’s transition back to her role as first lady. This deal raises ethical questions about a major corporation paying the president’s family for content directly related to and during their official roles, creating a conflict of interest. Reports indicate Melania Trump’s direct take from this deal is $28 million.
$90.5M
LEGAL SETTLEMENTS
Donald Trump has secured major legal settlements from some of the biggest names in media and technology—including YouTube, ABC, Paramount/CBS, Meta, and X. According to CAP research, these funds are slated to go directly to Trump, Trump’s presidential library, or to help build the new White House ballroom that Trump said he would pay for himself.
Trump family income streams to date
How much more has he made?
Donald Trump’s businesses have also profited off of hosting political and official events at Trump-owned properties, licensing deals in foreign countries, and NFTs. More details will be added to this tracker in the coming months if more details from disclosure reports become available.
Is this legal?
Presidents are subject to ethics laws, primarily those governing the disclosure of income and assets. The use of complex LLCs and trusts, such as those outlined in Trump’s own financial disclosures, can obscure the full picture of how Trump has profited from his office. Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court have limited the public’s ability to fight violations of the public trust. Ultimately, Trump’s actions raise significant concerns about conflicts of interest and evidence of a system that fails to protect the American people from runaway corruption. The solution to this problem is to pass new laws to stop any president from having the ability to use their office for personal gain and for prosecutors to have independent jurisdiction to take on government corruption.
Trump's Take
$1,804,591,257