Trump pocketed more than $57 million from crypto
The American president is in favor of cryptocurrencies and has even launched his own memecoin.
US President Donald Trump pocketed more than $57 million from the sale of tokens (cryptocurrency tokens) from a US exchange with which he signed an agreement last October, according to a document detailing his income made public by the White House.
This document, more than 230 pages long, lists the US president's holdings (stocks held, dividends received, real estate, investment portfolios, etc.). It is dated June 13, 2025, and comes from the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), designed "to avoid conflicts of interest in the executive branch," according to its logo. It specifies that the head of the Executive, who broke with the tradition of American presidents making their income tax returns public during his first campaign for the 2016 election, received $57.35 million from the sale of tokens from the company World Liberty Financial . He lent his name to this new company and launched his own digital currency, $TRUMP , on the market in January, a few hours before his inauguration.
World Liberty Financial had issued 100 billion tokens, of which some 22.5 billion were granted to the company DT Marks Defi, to which Donald Trump is attached. The president favors digital currencies , in which his two eldest sons are also active, and has multiplied initiatives in this area. In particular, he appointed Paul Atkins, a cryptocurrency supporter, as head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and established a federal "strategic reserve" funded by bitcoins seized by the US justice system.
The cryptocurrency community now has a "defender" and an "ally" in the White House with Donald Trump, as US Vice President JD Vance even proclaimed at the end of May during a Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The document also provides an overview of the amount of royalties received by the president (watches, perfumes, sneakers, publishing, including a Bible, etc.) and from licensing agreements worldwide. For example, he earned $2.8 million from watches and $2.5 million from perfumes and sneakers.
The Mar-a-Lago club in Florida also generated just over $50 million in income for Donald Trump. His golf courses around the world also contributed to his personal bank accounts, such as those in West Palm Beach ($29.1 million), where he frequently visits on weekends, and Miami ($110.42 million). He also received a monthly pension of $6,484 from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), which represents Hollywood actors, or $84,292 over the period covered by the document.
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