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Trump's Empire Rakes in Over $1B in Colossal Crypto Cash Grab
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-empire-rakes-in-over-1b-in-colossal-crypto-cash-grab/Trump’s Empire Rakes in Over $1B in Colossal Crypto Cash Grab
The president’s son said the true total is “probably more.”
Janna Brancolini
Updated Oct. 16 2025 9:34AM EDT
President Donald Trump and his family have reaped more than $1 billion in crypto cash over the past year, thanks to an industry boom fueled by the administration’s own crypto-friendly policies.
And that’s just the realized profits.
On paper, Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures have boosted his net worth by billions of dollars, according to the Financial Times, which attempted to untangle the family’s vast web of opaque and largely unregulated ventures.
The Trump holdings include digital trading cards featuring images of Trump wearing a superhero cape, memecoins whose value is based purely on speculation, stablecoins pegged to the U.S. dollar, tokens, and a decentralized finance platform called World Liberty Financial that was co-founded by Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr.
The ventures all promote their close ties to Trump—who campaigned on a promise to become the “first crypto president”—and his family.
The FT calculated that the WLFI token had raked in $550 million, while the $TRUMP meme coin brought in $362 million, the $MELANIA coin earned $65 million, and USD1 brought in $42 million.
Asked whether the calculations were accurate, Eric Trump told the FT the real figure was “probably more.”
The investors include foreign billionaires, funds tied to nation-states, and at least one person who was formerly investigated by U.S. authorities.
The president has also raked in millions of dollars’ worth of donations to his PAC with crypto industry fundraisers.
White House spokesperson Kush Desai told the FT that Trump had already built his business empire before entering politics.
“His sole motivation to leave behind his life of luxury to run for office was to save our country and people,” he said.
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But a HEIST.
How is any of this corruption not being challenged?
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