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Trump’s 2025 disclosure shows $2.2 billion income, mostly from crypto

Trump’s 2025 disclosure puts his income at at least $2.2 billion, with about $1.4 billion from crypto and $580 million tied to World Liberty Financial.

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Trump’s 2025 disclosure shows $2.2 billion income, mostly from crypto
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Donald Trump’s certified 2025 financial disclosure, released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on June 30, 2026, showed at least $2.2 billion in income last year, with roughly $1.4 billion coming from cryptocurrency ventures and about $580 million tied to World Liberty Financial, the family-linked crypto company. The 927-page filing puts his reported 2025 earnings far above the roughly $622 million he disclosed for 2024, before returning to the White House.

The disclosure also listed money from real estate, licensing, legal settlements and stock transactions, undercutting Trump’s claim that a hot stock market was the source of his windfall. The filing indicates that crypto, not stocks, supplied the biggest share of the gain. That matters because Trump’s second-term finances are not a generic market story; they show a sitting president drawing unprecedented personal income from businesses that can be affected by federal policy, especially in crypto.

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Presidential historians and ethics watchers have said there is no clear precedent in U.S. history for this scale of enrichment while in office, and the disclosure sharpens the conflict-of-interest question at the center of Trump’s second term. The issue is not simply how much he made, but how directly the presidency now intersects with his private empire.

Trump has also repeatedly claimed he is the only president to donate his salary, a statement that is false. Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy both donated their presidential pay, and Trump’s own first-term practice involved directing salary donations to federal agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Park Service and the Small Business Administration. That record makes the public explanation around his wealth and his salary claims as important as the headline number itself.

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