President Donald Trump generated more than $1 billion during his first year back in the White House, with a significant share of that income linked to cryptocurrency holdings, while First Lady Melania Trump brought in millions from her documentary project.
A large portion of the president’s reported earnings came from crypto businesses connected to his family, totaling more than $1.4 billion, according to a financial disclosure made public Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
The filing shows Trump received more than $580 million from crypto-related ventures, including roughly $515 million associated with token sales from World Liberty Financial LLC, a company managed in part by his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
The disclosure also lists about $65 million from equity sales connected to the company, along with another $635 million from sales of his $TRUMP meme coins.
Melania Trump, meanwhile, reported $10.7 million in net proceeds from a licensing agreement tied to her self-titled documentary, “Melania,” which outperformed expectations among some Hollywood industry observers.
The disclosure also noted that a separate licensing arrangement connected to the firm’s publisher brought in more than $500,000.
The documentary earned $7 million at the box office in the U.S. and Canada during its opening weekend, making it the strongest theatrical debut for a documentary, excluding concert films, since 2012.
Amazon reportedly paid $40 million for the rights to the film and committed an additional $35 million to promote its release.
President Donald Trump secured more than $1.4 billion in his family’s crypto ventures, a financial disclosure report released Tuesday shows
First Lady Melania Trump also reported $10.7 million in net proceeds from a licensing agreement connected to her eponymous documentary
The first lady also benefitted from more than $6 million in income from another licensing agreement covering non-fungible tokens and collectible products, while the president made royalties on his products.
Those include $4.7 million through a licensing agreement for Trump Watches with The Best Watches on Earth LLC and a deal related to the publication of The Greenwood Bible, a collaboration with God Bless the USA singer Lee Greenwood.
Another line in the financial disclosure showed Trump received a $200,000 speaking fee for a fundraising event in Naples, Florida in December 2022.
It notes that the income from the watches and a separate sneakers-and-fragrances deal for which Trump earned over $67,000 were ‘inadvertently omitted from’ the president’s previous financial disclosure, as was the balance he was owed from the 2022 speaking event.
The president further benefitted financially through the Trump Organization’s business dealings, the filing shows.
Trump reported more than $290 million in income related to revenue from his Mar-a-Lago estate; his Trump National Doral golf property; his club in Bedminster, New Jersey; and Trump National Washington DC.
Mar-a-Lago alone generated $77 million in ‘resort-related revenue,’ according to the filing, up from $50 million in last year’s disclosure.
At the same time, the president reported more than $86 million in settlements of legal disputes from media companies including ABC, CBS, Meta, YouTube and X.
The documentary earned $7 million in ticket sales across the US and Canada in just its opening weekend
It was the best-performing theatrical release for a documentary, outside of concert films, since 2012. A full theatre for the release with Melania onstage is pictured
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To further bolster his net worth, the president also deployed a growth mindset with stocks in some major American companies.
One of his largest burst of stock buying came on August 18, 2025, when Trump made three successive purchases of some of the largest names in technology – Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia – with each trade valued at between $5 million to $25 million.
The Nvidia purchase came exactly one week after Trump announced Nvidia and AMD had agreed to give the US government 15 percent of their H20 chip sales to China in exchange for export approval.
Apple had also announced an additional $100 billion in US investments on August 6, bringing its total planned US commitment to $600 billion.
The filing also shows Trump purchased Amazon stock worth between $500,000 and $1 million on September 23 – the same day a trial began in Seattle federal court for a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged Amazon duped customers into paying for Prime membership.
The trial ended two days later, after Amazon agreed to settle the suit by paying a $1 billion civil penalty to the FTC and refunds totaling $1.5 billion to an estimated 35 million customers.
Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, though, has previously said the president has no ability to direct any of his trades.
President Trump also took a growth mindset with stocks in American companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. The president is pictured in 2017 with Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple, Trump, Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon
President Trump also received gifts totaling more than $370,000 during his first year in office.
Many of the gifts were tickets to sporting events including 10 tickets to FIFA men’s World Cup worth $15,000 from FIFA President Gianni Infantino, 10 Super Bowl tickets from New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson, 15 tickets each to two UFC events from CEO Dana White as well as a number of other tickets to MLB, NFL, NCAA and golf events.
A statue from Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino depicting the president with his fist raised following an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania was also worth $250,000.
But the president did report some liabilities as well, including his civil trial verdict judgments in favor of writer E Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and of defaming her after she went public with the allegations in 2019.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Trump’s appeal of a jury verdict awarding Carroll $5 million in the case.
In the meantime, Trump is also appealing another jury’s verdict, which awarded Carroll a $83.3 million judgment for defamation.
Trump received gifts totaling more than $370,000 during his first year in office, including 15 tickets each to two UFC events from CEO Dana White
A statue from Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino depicting the president with his fist raised following an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania was worth $250,000
Along with the Trumps’ financial disclosure, the Ethics office also released Vice President JD Vance’s financial disclosure on Tuesday.
The report is much shorter, just 17 pages compared to the Trumps’ 927-page report, and details how the vice president earned income from his book, the firm Narya Capital – which he founded, the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund – where he served as a managing partner – and Bitcoin holdings valued at between $250,000 to $500,000.
In a statement to the Daily Mail, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly emphasized that ‘Neither the president nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest.
‘President Trump proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world through executive actions, supporting legislation like the GENIUS Act, and other commonsense policies to drive innovation and economic opportunity for all Americans,’ she noted.
‘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.’
The Daily Mail has also reached out to the Trump Organization for comment.
