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Donald Trump learned a lot from his first term. He learned how far he could push executive power, how to surround himself with people who would not tell him no, and he learned how to turn the Republican Party into a personal protection racket. He also made a decision: His retribution campaign would not only be trained on his political enemies, he would also use the power of the Presidency to steal from the United States and make himself and his family rich.
Chris Cillizza laid this out in his YouTube video, “How Donald Trump Is Using the Presidency to Get EVEN Richer.” Trump’s latest financial disclosure shows that his income exploded once he returned to the presidency. Trump made $622 million in 2024, before returning to office. In 2025, his first year back in office, he made $2.2 billion.
On June 23 in the Senate, Senator Chris Murphy laid out what he called "500 Days of Corruption." [ [link removed] ] Month by month, he walked through pardons sold to donors, no-bid contracts steered to friends, and a president who constantly uses the presidency to manipulate the stock market. Trump’s 2026 financial disclosures dropped this week. The methods Trump is using to amass this money are something that would get a Democratic President impeached. This, coupled with Chris Murphy’s speech, explain how Trump runs this country. Here are the 8 things you need to know about Trump’s wealth racket.
1. Trump’s Income Has Exploded
Of the $2.2 billion Trump reported in income for 2025, roughly $1.4 billion came from crypto. His 2025 financial disclosure [ [link removed] ], released June 30, confirms it: crypto is now his single largest source of personal income. Reuters traced most of it to World Liberty Financial and his branded meme coins, income streams the next section breaks down in full. That is a jump of roughly $1.6 billion from 2024, his last year as a private citizen, to 2025, his first full year back in the White House.
Trump has made an argument before that the Presidency costs him money. During his first term, he claimed it was cost him up to $5 billion. “This thing is costing me a fortune being president,” he told a Pennsylvania rally in August 2019. There was no evidence for that then, and Forbes’ own numbers undercut it further: his net worth fell from about $4 billion to about $2.5 billion over that stretch, a real decline, and roughly a third of what he claimed.
Forbes has put his current net worth [ [link removed] ] at $6.5 billion, up $1.4 billion from a year ago, after peaking even higher at $7.3 billion in September 2025. As Forbes put it in its own accounting [ [link removed] ], Trump has been “leveraging the presidency for profit.”
So spare the idea that Trump sacrifices anything to hold this office. His first term cost him an estimated $1.5 billion, spread across four years. His second term has already made him $1.6 billion.
2. He is Running a Crypto Machine
Crypto used to be a punchline in Trump's orbit. Now, it is the largest line item on his personal balance sheet, ahead of his golf courses, Mar-a-Lago, and the real estate empire he built over five decades. Most of it traces to two sources.
World Liberty Financial [ [link removed] ], the crypto venture Trump and his sons co-founded in 2024, generated nearly $800 million for Trump personally last year. That breaks down to more than $520 million from token sales and more than $250 million from selling off pieces of the business itself, according to Reuters’ review of the filing. A year earlier, in Trump’s first disclosure after retaking office, that same venture had produced $57.35 million from token sales. His income from World Liberty tokens alone jumped roughly ninefold in twelve months.
The $TRUMP meme coin, licensed through an entity called Celebration Coins, brought in another $635 million. Trump launched the coin three days before his second inauguration. Combined with smaller crypto holdings, the total tops $1.4 billion out of $2.2 billion in reported income. Crypto is not a side interest for this president. It’s most of the business.
And, it is a business his own administration writes the rules for. In his first week back in office, Trump signed an executive order on digital assets. In March 2025, he created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. On July 18, 2025, he signed the GENIUS Act [ [link removed] ], the first federal framework for the exact stablecoin product his family’s company sells.
The president of the United States should not be in a position where people, companies, foreign interests, political allies, insiders, and suckers in the market can pour money into products tied to his personal brand while his administration shapes the rules of the industry.
That is corrupt as hell.
3. Trump is Running an Enrichment Racket
Senator Chris Murphy’s speech shows the crypto numbers are not an isolated data point. They sit inside a pattern his office has been documenting in public, on the record, for a year and a half. Some of what Murphy laid out connects directly to Trump’s financial disclosure. For example, on April 7, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche ordered the Justice Department to drop several crypto-related investigations and shut down the DOJ’s crypto fraud enforcement unit entirely. At the time, Blanche himself held up to $500,000 in crypto investments.
On September 18, 2025, Murphy told the Senate that disclosures showed Trump had made $57 million selling crypto tokens to entities tied to the governments of North Korea, Iran, and Russia. By law, nobody has to disclose who buys meme coin. That, Murphy argued, is exactly the danger: a direct financial channel for hostile foreign governments to funnel money into a sitting president's pocket. Invisible by design and with no accountability to Congress or to the American people.
Three weeks later, on October 7, 2025, Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the Binance founder who went to prison for running a platform that let terrorists and drug traffickers move money undetected. Zhao had helped Trump’s family launch its own crypto venture.
By the way, none of this is limited only to crypto. Murphy’s office found that more than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump’s new White House ballroom have, since donating, won new or expanded federal contracts. Combined, those contracts total more than $50 billion of your tax dollars. Trump is using every avenue he can to manipulate the stock market, write the rules to benefit him, and make it so the same regulatory rules that apply to you don’t apply to him.
4. The Blind Trust Excuse Is Bullshit
Past presidents have generally tried to separate themselves from their businesses while in office. Trump did not do that in any meaningful way.
Trump has said repeatedly this term that his assets sit in a trust his children manage, so he is walled off from the money. But, that was already a stretch. The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust [ [link removed] ] names Donald Trump Jr. as trustee. According to SEC filings, he “holds sole voting and investment power over all securities owned by the Trust.” Eric Trump, his son, also sits on the board of World Liberty Financial. And Reuters reported, in its review of the new disclosure, that Trump remains “the beneficiary of the assets in the trust that ultimately receives the income.” A trust that pays its namesake is cannot be a blind trust. A blind trust means the officeholder does not know what is happening with the assets, cannot direct the investments, and cannot use public power to benefit private holdings.
In May 2026, it came out that Trump has been personally signing off on individual stock trades throughout his presidency, something no previous president has ever done. Murphy’s office cited one example: Trump bought roughly $1 million of Dell stock, then publicly praised the company, and months later his administration handed Dell a $10 billion defense contract.
5. Hunter Biden’s Got Nothing on Trump
Hunter Biden traded on his father’s name for consulting fees and art sales worth, at most, a few million dollars. That was real, and it was gross, and Democrats should be allowed to say that. Even Hunter Biden has said he shouldn’t have done it.
But that was also nowhere close to the same scale or structure as what is happening now. Hunter Biden never regulated the industries paying him. His father was not personally directing the trades. Nobody at the Justice Department had to write a memo protecting his business partners from prosecution.
Trump’s family runs a company that sells a financial product his own agencies write the rules for, sold in part to entities tied to hostile foreign governments, sitting inside a trust that pays him directly, while he personally picks stocks ahead of the contracts his administration hands out. That is blatant self-dealing and corruption by a sitting President meant for personal enrichment. It’s wrong and its wildly illegal.
6. The Media Refuses to Cover Trump’s Corruption Honestly
The main stream media has been dishonest in the way it has covered Trump’s presidency. A financial disclosure showing $2.2 billion in presidential income, most of it from an industry the president regulates, would, in normal times (when the media wasn’t scared of the President) be grounds for a huge, presidency-ending scandal. The words they choose to showcase this now, “conflicts of interest,” “ethics questions,” “concerns,” do a disservice to the public by deliberately not reporting how serious this is.
If a Democratic president had co-founded a crypto company with his children, spent a year in office setting crypto policy from the Oval Office, and then reported more than a billion dollars in crypto income in a single year, it would not be a one-day financial disclosure story. It would be the story, on every network, for weeks, with every Republican in Congress asked to answer for it.
That is not what’s happening here, and the media is aiding Trump in continuing to abuse the law, misappropriate public funds, and lie to the American people.
7. Trump Isn’t Hiding It
The corruption here is not hidden. It sits in the disclosure itself, in Murphy’s speech, in the reporting already cited in this piece, all public record. What is missing is not information. What is missing is anyone treating it like what it is. The government of the United States doesn't exist to make Donald Trump rich. It works for you, and its time our Congress acted like it.
Stay Angry.

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