Headline Roundup • July 2nd, 2026
Trump's Income Topped $2 Billion in 2025, Led by $1.2 Billion in Crypto Earnings
Summary from the AllSides News Team
President Trump made over $2 billion in 2025, including over $1 billion from cryptocurrencies, according to a 900-page filing released on Tuesday by the Office of Government Ethics.
Crypto Gains: Trump netted around $592 million from World Liberty Financial, a crypto company from which the Trump family receives 75% of the proceeds. $635 million came from royalties generated by "Celebrated Coins," which, according to Bloomberg (Lean Left bias), are connected to Trump's meme coin business.
Other Profits: Trump's real estate and golf holdings generated $620 million. Mar-a-Lago made $77 million. Trump-branded merchandise, including apparel, Bibles, watches, and more, made $4.7 million. $86 million came from legal settlements with ABC, CBS, Meta, YouTube, and X.
Split Reporting on Crypto Total: Outlets across the spectrum reported Trump's earnings from crypto differently, ranging from over $1 billion to $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion. Fox Business (Lean Right) said Trump "reported more than $500 million from sales" from World Liberty Financial, while The Wall Street Journal (Center) said he made "$800 million" in income. The New York Times (Lean Left) listed Trump's "revenue" from the company as $799 million. The Epoch Times (Lean Right) said Trump's total crypto income was $1.4 billion, with World Liberty making over $520 million from token sales and over $250 million from selling ownership stakes in the company. In a quick review of the filings, AllSides determined that Trump netted roughly $592 billion from World Liberty Financial. Trump's meme coin income was unambiguously included in the filing as $635 million.
Net Worth: Several outlets across the spectrum noted that, according to Forbes (Center), Trump's net worth jumped from $2.3 billion in 2024 to $6 billion in 2025.
How The Media Covered It: The Wall Street Journal focused less on the numbers behind Trump's earnings and more on Trump supporters who suffered significant losses from buying Trump's crypto tokens. It included quotes from several affected buyers in its reporting. The New York Times prominently noted that in 2025, an investment firm "tied to the United Arab Emirates" bought about half of World Liberty Financial. The Times said the deal "blurred the line between foreign policy and private enterprise." Jim Geragthy (Lean Right) of National Review (Right) criticized Republicans for their lack of discourse on Trump's reported earnings and said, "Trump is making it exceptionally easy for Democratic candidates in the midterms."
White House Rebuttal: Fox Business stood out by embedding the raw filing into its coverage and including a few direct quotes from the White House defending Trump. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told the outlet, "Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged – or will ever engage – in conflicts of interest… All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people – and any so-called 'reporters' pushing otherwise are recycling the same, tired, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade."
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Featured Coverage of this Story
President Trump reaped a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family's cryptocurrency businesses, a new filing shows.
All told, the president pulled in at least $2.2 billion, a figure that includes other parts of his vast holdings, such as his real estate assets. That compares to a minimum of $622 million his enterprises pulled in for all of 2024, before he returned to the presidency.
Liam Kennedy for WSJ
Morten Christensen made a big bet on digital tokens sold by the Trump family's World Liberty Financial last year, hoping that a surge in value might be enough to help him retire.
Instead, the value of those tokens tanked. While Christensen and many like him lost big, the president made a fortune, netting $800 million from that crypto project, according to a financial disclosure he filed this week.
"In crypto, people say a game is a game," the digital-asset entrepreneur said. "He played a better game than I did."
President Donald Trump reported more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency-related income in his latest annual financial disclosure, underscoring how digital assets have become a major part of his business portfolio.
The 2025 filing, released Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, spans more than 900 pages and covers the first year of Trump's second non-consecutive term in the White House.
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