WSJ: Trump made over 1 billion from cryptocurrencies in 2025
Trump and his family invested heavily in cryptocurrency-related businesses during the first year of his second term
US President Donald Trump’s forays into the vast world of cryptocurrencies have earned him an extraordinary profit of over a billion dollars over the past year, according to his most recent financial disclosure. This represents an unprecedented surge in income, reported the Wall Street Journal, which came on top of earnings from royalty agreements, the property sector and legal settlements.
Trump and his family have invested heavily in cryptocurrency-related ventures during the first year of his second term: these are ventures that are generating not just ‘paper’ wealth, but real, tangible profits. According to the document filed with the Office of Government Ethics (the government body that oversees public ethics), the 2025 earnings included $635 million in royalties from an entity linked to Trump’s ‘memecoin’ – launched just a few days before his inauguration – and over $500 million generated from the sale of tokens by World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s flagship venture in the crypto sector.
