Trump Reaped $2.2 Billion in 2025 as Oversight of Him Waned

Donald Trump's second term has produced an "unprecedented" $2.2 billion in 2025 revenue for the president, driven by cryptocurrency holdings, foreign business deals and a new paid-access scheme for his social media posts, according to financial disclosures and critics cited by the Guardian.

Trump reported earning at least $1.4 billion from crypto ventures last year, according to disclosure forms filed in June. At the same time, roughly one million investors in a Trump-linked crypto scheme lost nearly $3.8 billion as their holdings' value collapsed.

The crypto venture World Liberty Financial, which Trump launched with his sons and the family of Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in 2024, brought in $799 million for Trump in 2025. His memecoin, $Trump, earned him another $636 million.

This summer, Trump's Truth Social business began offering wealthy buyers early access to his posts for $100,000 a month through a product called Truth API. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote to major Wall Street trade groups urging them to reject the offering, warning it would "sell privileged access to market-moving presidential communications" for Trump's personal benefit.

Critics also flagged a Justice Department settlement of a $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS over a leak of his tax returns. The deal gives Trump and his family immunity from IRS audits of prior returns and could save him $100 million. A federal judge found the case lacked adversity of parties because Trump controlled both sides.

Separately, Trump accepted a $400 million plane as a gift from Qatar, which some analysts say circumvents the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause.

A CNN poll in late July found 66% of 1,225 respondents said Trump does not put the country's good over his personal gain.

"Trump has figured out a way to monetize the presidency, political power and public policy in ways no other president has achieved," Princeton historian Julian Zelizer told the Guardian. Larry Noble, a former Federal Election Commission general counsel, said the administration "already looks like the most openly corrupt administration in our history." Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade said the IRS settlement "typifies his self-dealing."

Trump has declined to place his assets in a blind trust or divest from his businesses, telling the New York Times in January he has a "very honest family" and has never taken his presidential salary.