Donald Trump says he is not the only one benefiting financially during his second term, after new filings showed he generated more than $2.2 billion in revenue in his first year back in the White House.
The billionaire president’s federally required financial disclosures were made public Tuesday, offering a striking look at the rapid expansion of his reported wealth.
In his 2024 disclosure, Trump reported at least $622 million in revenue from his various business and financial interests.
The latest documents released Tuesday indicate that figure surged by roughly 250 percent in a year, with Trump reporting at least $2.2 billion in revenue for 2025.
No modern U.S. president has disclosed business revenue approaching Trump’s multibillion-dollar total. Barack Obama, by comparison, earned millions while in office largely from book sales.
Asked Wednesday morning about his growing fortune and substantial returns, Trump said his money is held in what he described as a “blind account.”
“I think it’s called the blind account, but they basically they take it, and I purposely, I never speak to any of the people that run the money, but they’re at big institutions and they invest in whatever they invest,” he told reporters before boarding the new Air Force One jet gifted to him by Qatar.
However, unlike every president since the 1970s who held individual stocks, Trump has not put his assets into a blind trust. That means he can still know what he owns, even if he says he does not personally direct trades.
After Donald Trump’s 2025 financial dosclosures were released on Tuesday, showing $2.2 billion in reveneu, the President said he uses a ‘blind account’ to invest, and that he does not speak to his money managers
Roughly $1.4 billion worth of the revenue he reported came from crypto. Above, Trump is shown speaking at the Bitcoin 2024 event while campaigning
Trump also saw revenue from his massive real estate portfolio. Mar-a-Lago, the President’s Florida home and members-only club, brought in $77 million in revenue last year
But he claimed he was not the only person cashing out ‘because the stock market’s going up, everybody’s profiting.’
The three major stock market indices grew between 13 and 20 percent in 2025, hardly the 250 percent increase the President enjoyed.
Trump’s revenue streams span several different areas, including crypto, real estate, litigation and more.
Crypto was by far and away the President’s most lucrative venture – earning him much higher revenues than the real estate empire he is most well known for.
Trump’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial (WLF), a business his family members also have stakes in, threw off $799 million in revenue in 2025.
In 2024, WLF brought in $57 million in revenue. The year-over-year increase represents a dramatic 425 percent growth in revenue.
While Trump’s personal and family holdings have generated record revenues, the wider crypto market has seen a sharp decline. In October 2025, crypto hit a record of approximately $4.3 trillion across the industry.
Since then, nearly half of the value has been wiped out and the total crypto market cap now hovers around $2.1 trillion.
About 70 million Americans hold cryptocurrency investments, according to Security.org.
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Trump shown during the final round of the Cadillac Championship in 2026 at his Doral, Florida, golf club. The club brought in $122 million in revenue in 2025, compared to $110 million the year before
The President also made tens of millions of dollars through settlements with major broadcasters and social media platforms. Paramount, the owner of CBS News, settled a lawsuit with Trump worth $16 million
An investment firm linked to the United Arab Emirates government purchased 49 percent of WLF just before Trump’s inauguration in 2025.
Then there’s the President’s meme coin $TRUMP.
His revenues from that venture netted him $636 million in 2025, according to the disclosures.
Released just before his 2025 inauguration, the coin’s price took off for a short time before it plummeted back down. It is currently priced around $1.68 per coin, down 80 percent from its price a year ago.
In total, Trump’s crypto ventures brought in approximately $1.4 billion in 2025.
The President also made over $14 million from licensing his name to properties in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Mar-a-Lago, the President’s Florida home and member-only club, brought in $77 million in revenue last year. In 2024, the property brought in $50 million.
His golf course in nearby Doral, a suburb of Miami, brought in $122 million in 2025 compared to $110 million the year prior.
Trump also made tens of millions in settlements from litigation.
ABC News paid the President $16 million, $15 million for his forthcoming presidential library, and $1 million for legal fees. The settlement came after Trump accused the broadcaster of defamation.
Meta dished out $25 million for a settlement related to banning the President from Facebook following the January 6 Capitol riot. Of that sum, $22 million went to the library and $3 million went towards legal fees.
Further, X paid $10 million to the President’s library and Paramount, owner of CBS, paid out $16 million, mostly to the library and legal fees, after the President accused the outlet of editing broadcasts to make him look bad.
‘Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest,’ White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told the Daily Mail. ‘President Trump proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world.’
