Donald Trump appears to have earned $1.2 billion through his cryptocurrency ventures in 2025, according to calculations by Agence France-Presse based on documents released by the federal Office of Government Ethics (OGE). Under a 1978 law, the U.S. president and vice president are required to disclose their annual income and assets.
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According to the 927-page documents made public, the U.S. head of state earned nearly $550 million through his ties to startup World Liberty Financial (WLF). The platform was co-founded in September 2024 by Donald Trump’s sons and Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy to the Middle East.
Trump’s massive crypto earnings
The company created its own cryptocurrency, named WLFI, whose initial sales generated $550 million in revenue. However, since it became publicly available in September 2025, its value has plummeted — from $0.46 to just $0.06 per token today.
Trump’s personal wealth nearly triples
Trump’s cryptocurrency activity is the primary reason his personal net worth has nearly tripled, rising from $2.3 billion to $6.5 billion between 2024 and 2026, according to Forbes. Trump’s three sons also acquired, through the brokerage firm DT Marks Defi, an additional $22.5 billion worth of WLFI tokens — now valued at just $1.3 billion.
In April 2025, WLF began commercially offering its own stablecoin — a digital asset designed to maintain a stable value by being pegged to a traditional currency, in this case the U.S. dollar.
Lucrative licensing fees
Trump’s financial disclosure also references, beyond WLF, fees received under a licensing agreement for the meme coin bearing his name, $TRUMP, which launched just hours before his inauguration in January 2025. That amount reached $635 million, according to the document released by the OGE.
Trump is frequently accused of conflicts of interest, particularly because he invested in digital currencies while simultaneously implementing, upon his return to power, a series of deregulatory measures for the crypto sector — measures that sent token prices soaring.
The White House responds
The White House has categorically dismissed all ethics-related allegations. “Neither the president nor his family have ever been — nor will they ever be — in a position of conflict of interest,” said Anna Kelly, deputy spokesperson for the U.S. presidency, in an official statement.
Donald Trump has “proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world,” she continued, stressing that the actions of the president and his cabinet are driven by “the interests of the American people.” “The so-called ‘journalists’ pretending otherwise are simply recycling the tired and discredited narrative that Democrats and legacy media have been peddling for a decade,” Kelly added in combative fashion.
Melania Trump’s income
First Lady Melania Trump’s declared income is also included in her husband’s financial disclosure documents. This includes $10 million received for a documentary about her produced for Amazon, as well as over $500,000 for a memoir published under her first name.
Beyond his direct crypto earnings, Trump also reported millions from shares in publicly listed companies active in the sector, such as the Coinbase platform — as well as from Trump-branded merchandise, including clothing and bumper stickers, and over $208,000 from Bible sales in collaboration with country music singer Lee Greenwood.
JD Vance sees dramatic income surge
Vice President JD Vance also saw his income rise dramatically since becoming the second-highest official in the Trump administration. Among other earnings, he declared between $1 million and $5 million in royalties from his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
