Trump Made $1.4bn From Cryptocurrency Since Returning to Office

Donald Trump made $1.4bn (approximately £1bn) from his cryptocurrency dealings in his first year back in office, in what his former White House lawyer has described as part of “the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind.”

Overall, Trump pulled in at least $2.2bn (£1.65bn) from his vast holdings, including real estate assets, in 2025. By comparison, his enterprises pulled in $662m (£495m) in 2024 before he returned to the presidency. 

The US president – who denies any wrongdoing – received around $500m (£374m) from $WLFI, the digital currency sold by his family’s main crypto firm World Liberty Financial (WLF).

Trump also got a windfall from his $TRUMP meme coin, which was launched three days before his inauguration and earned him more than $600m (£449m).

The coin was dismissed as a ‘pump-and-dump scheme’ by analysts and led to hundreds of thousands of mostly small investors losing money.  

The figures were released as part of Trump’s 927-page mandatory financial report for 2025.

An additional $500m (£374m) deal – struck days before his second inauguration in January 2025 – to sell 49% of WLF to representatives of a high-ranking Emirati royal has invited accusations of corruption. 

The deal saw $187m (£140m) of the initial payment steered to entities controlled by the Trump family, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

Months later, the UAE got the green light to import 500,000 Nvidia AI chips, despite concerns from US security officials.

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who was part of the Trump administration’s legal team between 2017 and 2018, accused the president of violating parts of the constitution designed to prevent federal officials from engaging in corruption or being unduly influenced by foreign powers. 

“Several hundred million dollars related to those coins,” Cobb told CNN. “How can that be anything other than trading on his image and likeness in violation of the emoluments clause?”

He added: “We are seeing the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind in the last 18 months.” 

The White House has called the accusation “bogus and irrelevant”. Trump denied that he was profiting from the presidency, adding: “We have funds that run my money.”

“He got richer,” California’s governor Gavin Newsom posted on X. “His crypto supporters got rug-pulled.”

Lee Reiners, a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner who now specialises in cryptocurrency, told the New York Times: “It is hard to wrap your head around that the president of the United States would engage in this level of self-enrichment at the expense of so many of his supporters.”  

He added: “This is a president of the United States who has made more money off crypto since he took office than he made in any prior year in his entire business career.”