Trump’s Take
$2,934,249,940
Cashing in on the presidency
“Trump’s Take” is a real-time financial tracker documenting the cash and gifts that President Donald Trump and his family have received by selling the presidency. For our purposes, the family includes President Trump, Melania Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump, hereafter referred to collectively as the “Trump family,” but excludes Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
Trump has made most of the cash by launching his own crypto ventures—reversing his outspoken, skeptical stance on crypto—while aggressively deregulating the industry. Trump takes a cut in cash from the trades and sales of the family’s coins and tokens along with stablecoin interest. The “take” is the cash he has received calculated in real time, based on actual trading activity and stablecoin interest. It can only go up. We have also added the value of the gifts, legal settlements, and the estimated income expected from Melania Trump’s documentary.
Due to the complexity of how the Trump family’s income is routed and the various promotions he is running for his crypto ventures, we are regularly updating our calculations. The current comprehensive methodology detailing the Trump family’s income can be found here.
For context, this analysis does not include income from assets Trump had before winning the November 2024 election including real estate, hotels, licensing deals, and more. There is one exception: income from World Liberty Financial Inc. (WLFI), which launched in September 2024 weeks before the election. However, nearly all of the income from this venture was made after his November election.
Trump changed his position on crypto, and then his family made billions.
Before
After
Total Cash From Crypto
$2.416B
$636M
TRUMP MEME COIN
The “Trump meme coin,” known as $TRUMP, is a speculative cryptocurrency asset that was launched just before he was inaugurated in January 2025. An investigation from May 2025 revealed that two Trump-aligned companies hold a significant majority of the coins.
$1.447B
CASHING IN ON CRYPTO TOKENS
A Trump family company, DT Marks DEFI LLC, has received income from the sale of WLFI governance tokens. While these tokens were designed to be nontransferable, WLFI initiated a process to allow the tokens to be traded on crypto exchanges, which started on September 1, 2025.
$64M
PROFITING FROM STABLECOIN RESERVES
The Trump family has claimed to own as much as 75 percent of World Liberty Financial Inc., the entity behind the $USD1 stablecoin. Through a complex series of holding companies, the family is “entitled to interest earned on the reserve assets backing $USD1.” This arrangement has funneled millions of dollars in income to the Trumps, creating a steady revenue stream from a financial instrument linked to the U.S. dollar.
$262.5M
WORLD LIBERTY FINANCIAL EQUITY SALES
According to an October 2026 Guardian profile, the United Arab Emirates’ national security advisor Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan “has successfully positioned [the company he controls] at the heart of global AI infrastructure for decades to come.” This comes months after a report that a separate investment vehicle Tahoon controls invested $500 million into Trump’s primary crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, giving him nearly half of the stake in the crypto company. Tahoon’s investment vehicle, Aryam Investment 1, became WLFI’s “largest shareholder, and the firm’s only known investor outside of its founders,” with executives from his AI company G42 joining the board. Shortly after this investment was made, the Trump administration cleared a plan to export advanced AI chips to the UAE despite national security concerns.
So what?
Who buys this stuff? These crypto schemes open up many opportunities for corruption. Honest Americans can easily wonder: If a foreign company wanted a lawsuit dropped or a foreign country wanted tariff relief, would they simply need to buy enough meme coins? If a criminal were looking for a pardon, would they just need to purchase secret digital tokens? A September report from Accountable.US showed tokens from one of the Trump family’s crypto ventures were “sold to a variety of highly suspicious entities that appear to have connections to North Korea, Iran and Russia, as well as known money-laundering platform Tornado Cash.” The possibilities, and the consequences for the American people, are endless. There is plenty we still don’t know, but what we know now is already concerning.
$400M
“PALACE IN THE SKY”: QATARI GIFT PLANE TO TRUMP
“The Air Force estimates it will cost less than $400 million to modify a luxury aircraft gifted from the Qatari government into President Donald Trump’s flying command center … The White House announced … it would accept Qatar’s offer to gift the president a modified Boeing 747-8, worth roughly $400 million. The plan is to use the gifted plane throughout the rest of Trump’s term and then donate it to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation after Trump leaves office.”
– Defense News, June 5, 2025
$28M
FIRST FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT
Amazon has agreed to a $40 million deal to license a documentary about Melania Trump’s transition back to her role as first lady. This deal raises ethical questions about a major corporation paying the president’s family for content directly related to and during their official roles, creating a conflict of interest. Reports indicate Melania Trump’s direct take from this deal is $28 million.
$90.5M
LEGAL SETTLEMENTS
Donald Trump has secured major legal settlements from some of the biggest names in media and technology—including YouTube, ABC, Paramount/CBS, Meta, and X. According to CAP research, these funds are slated to go directly to Trump, Trump’s presidential library, or to help build the new White House ballroom that Trump said he would pay for himself.
Trump family income streams to date
How much more has he made?
Donald Trump’s businesses have also profited off of hosting political and official events at Trump-owned properties, licensing deals in foreign countries, and NFTs. More details will be added to this tracker in the coming months if more details from disclosure reports become available.
$7B
Trump's estimated total net worth as of October 2, 2026
Beyond the cash Trump has already made, Trump holds billions more in stock and crypto assets he has not sold. As of October 2, 2026, Forbes estimates his total net worth to be $7 billion. Earlier in 2026, Forbes also estimated that his unrealized crypto holdings from his WLFI governance tokens and meme coin were worth an estimated $570 million, and the remaining equity in his stable coin was worth another $240 million. His most recent financial disclosure report also continued to show holdings in Trump Media and Technology Group, the Truth Social parent company. Earlier this year, Truth Social decided to sell early access to the president’s Truth Social posts, which according to The Wall Street Journal, would “allow traders and investors to pay for real-time feed of Truth Social posts.”
Is this legal?
Ethics laws concerning income disclosure for public officials apply to presidents as well, but the Trump family’s use of promotions, LLCs, trusts, and other organizations to collect some income like those outlined in Trump’s own financial disclosures hide the full picture of how Trump may have profited from his office. A major Supreme Court decision in 2024 made it even harder to find and hold a president accountable when they violate the public’s trust. Trump’s actions raise significant concerns about conflicts of interest and are the subject of several congressional inquiries. The more permanent solution, however, is to pass new laws to stop any president from having the ability to use their office for personal gain and for prosecutors to have independent jurisdiction to take on government corruption.
Trump's Take
$2,934,249,942