Trump's Empire Rakes in Over $1B in Colossal Crypto Cash Grab
Source: Daily Beast
Updated Oct. 16 2025 9:34AM EDT
Published Oct. 16 2025 8:29AM EDT
President Donald Trump and his family have reaped more than $1 billion in crypto cash over the past year, thanks to an industry boom fueled by the administration’s own crypto-friendly policies. And that’s just the realized profits.
On paper, Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures have boosted his net worth by billions of dollars, according to the Financial Times, which attempted to untangle the family’s vast web of opaque and largely unregulated ventures.
The Trump holdings include digital trading cards featuring images of Trump wearing a superhero cape, memecoins whose value is based purely on speculation, stablecoins pegged to the U.S. dollar, tokens, and a decentralized finance platform called World Liberty Financial that was co-founded by Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr.
The ventures all promote their close ties to Trump—who campaigned on a promise to become the “first crypto president”—and his family. The FT calculated that the WLFI token had raked in $550 million, while the $TRUMP meme coin brought in $362 million, the $MELANIA coin earned $65 million, and USD1 brought in $42 million.
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