President Donald Trump reported nearly $1.2 billion in revenue from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Tuesday shows, while many investors later experienced losses.
Businesses that were startups when he took the oath of office have now eclipsed in revenue much of his vast property portfolio that took him decades to accumulate. Their growth was supported by billionaire investors and Trump's own move to reverse a federal crackdown on the industry.
Trump got more than $500 million from his World Liberty Financial business selling new crypto products, including “governance tokens,” according to the required annual disclosure report with the Office of Government Ethics. It also showed another crypto business, CIC Digital LLC, took in more than $600 million from sales of souvenir-type “meme” coins featuring his image.
Both the tokens and the coins have declined in value since the sales.
Trump also took in millions last year from selling Trump-branded Bibles, sneakers and other small items in an unusual move for a sitting president. The sale of Trump-branded watches alone brought in $4.7 million.
The 927-page disclosure form provides a picture of the growth of the president’s wealth since taking office last January through a web of business interests — many of which have benefited from policy moves by Trump's administration. Trump has insisted that his sons direct his finances, but the arrangement differs from the conflict-of-interest protections that his recent predecessors in office had instituted.
Forbes estimates Trump's net worth at $6 billion, up from $2.3 billion in 2024.
The rise of crypto relative to Trump’s property business is especially noteworthy because he first rode to office highlighting his property business. It's also notable because that mainstay business also boomed last year. Trump took in tens of millions in fees from a flurry of new hotel, resort and condo deals overseas that amounts to the biggest property expansion ever in the century since the family business was founded.
Many of those countries were negotiating with the U.S. over tariffs, military aid and other important matters while the family business was striking the deals.
A property in the United Arab Emirates generated $10.4 million for the Trump business last year. One in Saudi Arabia being built by a real estate developer close to the ruling family sent the president’s company $9 million. And one in Bucharest, Romania, and another in Qatar sent him $5 million each.
One of his prominent domestic properties, Mar-a-Lago in Florida, notched big growth last year, too.
Trump took in $77 million from the property, a 50% jump from the year earlier before returning to office, as heads of state and business leaders visited it during his new term.
The disclosure report doesn't give profit figures, just revenue, so it's impossible to know how much he is earning.
After taking office last year, Trump reversed the Biden administration's tough stance on the crypto industry and pushed policies friendly to the industry.
But regulators still had some concerns. Before Trump's World Liberty began selling “governance tokens,” they issued warnings about this new kind of crypto asset, saying that unlike stocks, the tokens offer no ownership stake in the issuing company, just voting power on certain corporate policies, and are difficult to value.
Buyers purchased them anyway, including a Chinese billionaire who spent $75 million on the tokens and $200 million on the souvenir coins. In February last year, a federal lawsuit charging him with duping investors was paused before being settled for a $10 million fine.
The billionaire, Justin Sun, has repeatedly denied his spending on Trump businesses had anything to do with his federal case, while World Liberty has dismissed the notion of a conflict of interest.
Meanwhile, investors have seen the value of their Trump-tied holdings drop significantly.
The price of World Liberty tokens has fallen 80% since they started trading in September. And the Trump souvenir coins that spiked to more than $74 in the days after launching in January 2025 now sell for $1.68.
The White House has repeatedly said Trump put his business in a trust managed by his sons and is not involved in its decisions and that there are no ethics issues to discuss.
“Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest,” spokeswoman Anna Kelly said. “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people.”
The Trump umbrella company, the Trump Organization, has said its deals overseas were with private companies, not with governments.
Still, the distinction between private companies and governments can be difficult to determine in countries ruled by authoritarians, royal families and one-party governments.
For a new Trump resort in Vietnam, the report shows Trump took in $5 million last year after the ruling Communist Party sent its deputy prime minister to sign off on the deal and, according to The New York Times, pushed farmers off the land to make way for the construction.
Whether the deals played any role in U.S. policy decisions is difficult to determine, although these countries later received several of the policy outcomes they had sought.
Vietnam got tariff relief. Qatar got access to advanced U.S. technology previously off limits, and Saudi Arabia got U.S. fighter jets it had coveted for years.