Clockwise, from top left: President Donald Trump, Zhao Changpeng, UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Steve Witkoff(Jonathan Ernst, Benoit Tessier, Rashed Al Mansoori, Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

In 2021, President Trump described cryptocurrency as a scam that could undermine the U.S. dollar. Yesterday, on the eve of the long holiday weekend observance of the Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary (i.e., when he had to figure attention to political news would be at its low ebb), the president released a mandatory annual financial disclosure acknowledging that he’d raked in a shocking $2.2 billion dollars last year while holding the nation’s highest public trust and the world’s most powerful office.

About $1.4 billion of the windfall is estimated to have come from the Trump family’s sundry crypto ventures.

Forbes estimates that,

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