(Adnkronos) – “You know why I have profits, because the market is rising, everyone is making profits.” This is how Donald Trump responded to journalists today who asked him about the 1.4 billion his family earned in the last year from cryptocurrency-related activities, claiming that “everyone is making profits” since he returned to the White House. And to criticism that he is taking advantage of his position to get rich, the billionaire president replied that these earnings are in a blind trust: “I am not involved in my personal finances, we have funds that manage my money,” he said, further stating that he “made a lot of money before becoming president, they invest it and I don’t communicate with them.”
Indeed, from the almost thousand pages of President Trump’s financial disclosures published yesterday, it emerges that the tycoon’s wealth grew by 2.2 billion in 2025, the first year of his second presidency, and of these, over 1.4 billion, according to figures released by the Washington Post, come from cryptocurrencies, digital currencies linked to the Trump brand.
In detail, there are 635 million in royalties from a company called Celebration Coins, linked to the §Trump meme coin launched a few hours before his second inauguration in January 2025. Another 525 million come from World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company founded by Trump’s children along with the children of his special envoy, real estate friend Steve Witkoff. There are also 196 million dollars in net proceeds from a stablecoin transaction.
In addition to crypto-related earnings, Trump has also seen an increase in revenue from his resorts and golf clubs: Trump National Doral earned 121 million last year, compared to 110 million the previous year, and his personal residence, Mar-a-Lago, which continues to operate as a resort, earned 77 million, compared to 56 million the previous year. Overall, Trump’s wealth has tripled, rising from 2.3 billion in 2024 to 6.5 billion in 2026, according to Forbes estimates.
Before the president’s direct defense of his substantial crypto earnings, the White House spokesperson, Anna Kelly, stated that the tycoon has “proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world through executive actions, supporting laws like the Genius Act and with other common-sense policies to drive innovation and economic opportunities for all Americans.”
“Neither the president nor his family have ever been, nor will they ever be, in a conflict of interest,” the spokesperson concluded, lashing out against the “worn-out, false narrative” of those who claim otherwise. Unlike other presidents, Trump, who made cryptocurrency market deregulation a cornerstone of his second presidency, has not divested from his interests or entrusted them to an official blind trust, with the Trump Organization merely ensuring that assets are managed by third-party financial institutions that operate their transactions through automated technology.”
In a recent letter, some Democratic senators revealed that a company called Celebration Cards, registered in Wyoming, which has become one of the main crypto hubs, facilitated the organization of a cryptocurrency conference at Mar-a-Lago last April. “It is essential that Congress fully understands the extent to which President Trump and his family are profiting from their cryptocurrency activities,” reads the letter signed, among others, by Elizabeth Warren, the ranking Democrat on the Banking Committee.”
“What is striking is how many pies Trump has had his hands in; there is no precedent for comparison, no president of the 20th or 21st century has done anything vaguely comparable,” Douglas Brinkley, a history professor at Rice University, told NBC News.”
