{"id":311,"date":"2026-07-02T05:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:28:37","slug":"trump-cashed-in-on-crypto-in-2025-federal-filings-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Trump Cashed in on Crypto in 2025, Federal Filings Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tMaking money is hard. Just ask Donald Trump<\/a>. Back in 2022, House Democrats released<\/a> years of the then-former and now-current president\u2019s tax returns, which showed that Trump the entrepreneur was significantly less successful than The Art of the Deal<\/em> would have you believe. They painted a picture of a floundering businessman who was doing his best to dodge taxes and scrape together income, something Trump mastered throughout his long career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut now, it appears that Trump has finally found an industry that works: open corruption, crypto<\/a> scams, and nepotistic crony capitalism that siphons off wealth, rakes in gifts, and feeds them into his personal coffers. He just needed to become president of the United States.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump revealed in financial disclosures this week that he has made $2.2 billion in 2025, up from $622 million in 2024, the year before he returned to the White House. The astronomical sum includes a diverse portfolio of investments and businesses, but is mostly comprised of one brazen cryptocurrency scam: World Liberty Financial<\/a>, a crypto company that offers the $TRUMP memecoin. Trump made a staggering $1.4 billion on crypto last year, fueled both by getting his supporters to buy into $TRUMP and a massive private deal in which a UAE-linked investment firm paid almost $500 million<\/a> for a 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut let\u2019s break down what that means in simple terms. One: Trump sells a memecoin to his followers, using his personal social media channels to boost it. This is basically the same scam Trump has been running for years. If you\u2019ve been on his mailing lists since 2016, you\u2019ve been inundated with ads for physical Trump coins, digital trading cards, and all sorts of commemorative and allegedly collectible memorabilia. Crypto is essentially the same grift, with the added flavor that Trump can pass it off as an \u201cinvestment\u201d opportunity, something that may pay dividends for the everyday Americans who are duped into buying it. Trump has also taken a host of actions benefiting the crypto industry \u2014 and thus, his and his family\u2019s finances \u2014 since retaking office, while touting the industry publicly.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTrump claims that he isn\u2019t \u201cinvolved\u201d in the running of these businesses, which is about as flimsy of an excuse as you can get. \u201cWe have funds that run that money,\u201d he told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Q: Your financial disclosure shows you had a very lucrative year last year. What message does this send to average Americans?<\/p>\n

TRUMP: Well, you know, I don’t get involved. We have funds that run my money<\/p>\n

Q: But you are benefitting. We’re talking billions of dollars<\/p>\n

TRUMP: Well\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/y0CVPXc4NB<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\tIn reality, Trump and his family are the only ones getting rich. But it\u2019s the other half of that windfall that\u2019s even more concerning. While garden-variety crypto-grift is bad, the dark money investment in a Trump-owned company by a firm that is linked to the government of the UAE suggests that foreign influence could be playing a large role in the growth of Trump\u2019s personal fortune. In other words, he\u2019s basically getting a payout from the government of another nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time Trump has engaged in open corruption with members of a foreign nation. His comments about his financial disclosure on Wednesday came on the tarmac in front of his new private plane, also known as Air Force One, which was paid for and gifted to him by the Qatari government, and retrofitted with hundreds of millions of taxpayer money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou want a Pulitzer Prize? A picture of the plane.\u201d Trump joked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tTrump took his first flight on the Qatari-gifted jet shortly after. \u201cFrankly, we couldn\u2019t build a plane like this because we wouldn\u2019t be willing to spend the kind of money necessary,\u201d Trump said<\/a>. \u201cThey spent top dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe plane is valued at roughly $400 million. The government will not retain ownership of the plan after Trump leaves office. It will instead be gifted<\/a> to his presidential library.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n