US President’s income from digital assets tripled his personal wealth from $2.3 billion to $6.5 billion between 2024 and 2026
US President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family’s cryptocurrency ventures last year, according to documents released Tuesday by the US Office of Government Ethics. The filings indicate that he now derives most of his income from digital assets that have benefited from his policies.
A law from 1978 mandates the President and the Vice President of the United States to declare their income as well as their assets. Trump’s latest filings detailed that his companies received almost $800 million from World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture he and his sons co-founded.
Breakdown of earnings
The amount included more than $520 million from the sale of crypto tokens and over $250 million from the sale of ownership stakes in World Liberty Financial, with Trump family members also entitled to a share of those proceeds.
He also reported earning another $635 million from the sale of his Trump meme coins, which were launched just hours before his inauguration in January 2025.
The income disclosure underlines how crypto has transformed the US President’s income. For example, in the disclosure he made last June, he reported $57.35 million from token sales at World Liberty, which then leapt to more than $500 million in this year’s filing.
Trump’s push for crypto
On assuming office for his second term, Trump began to put in place policies and initiatives viewed as beneficial to the industry. These moves included implementing federal rules for stablecoins, and dialling back policing of the industry by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Such actions have regularly led him to be accused of conflicts of interest. Trump’s activities in the cryptocurrency sector are the central reasons behind the near tripling of his personal wealth, which rose from $2.3 billion to $6.5 billion between 2024 and 2026, according to Forbes.
White House response
“Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest. President Trump proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world through executive actions,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement cited by news agency Reuters.
She added, “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people – and any so-called ‘reporters’ pushing otherwise are recycling the same, tired, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade.”
While the White House has previously maintained that Trump’s business interests are currently overseen by his children, the president continues to be the beneficiary of the assets in the trust that ultimately receives the income.
