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Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion

 

Saturday, January 31, 2026

 

David D. Kirkpatrick Staff writer It has been a lucrative year for the Trump family. In just the past six months or so, a bitcoin mining company headed by Eric Trump brought the family more than a hundred million dollars. Promotions by a major crypto exchange (whose founder the President recently pardoned) have positioned the family to pull in about a hundred and thirty-six million dollars. A convoluted deal that turned a company into a stockpile of Trump-linked digital tokens appears to have brought the family another five hundred and sixty-two million dollars. And crypto is hardly the only family business. The Trumps sold the use of their name to a Saudi real-estate company that is close to the royal family for a resort in the Maldives and two other new megaprojects inside the kingdom. Donald Trump, Jr., made millions by reinventing himself as an adviser or director to half a dozen companies. And President Trump, whose Administration regulates the banking and securities industries, filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase demanding five billion dollars—not as a deposit in the U.S. Treasury but as a check made out to Donald J. Trump. Illustration by Erik Carter This past summer, I set out to tally up just how much the Trumps have made off the Presidency—to sum it all up in a number. The total then was $3.4 billion. Nearly six months later, at the end of Trump’s first year back in the White House, I am updating my reporting: the total has now reached four billion dollars. Trump promised at the start of his first term that neither he nor his family would ever do anything that might even be “perceived to be exploitive of the office of the Presidency.” But all the deals I included in my tally do precisely that. A few of the Trump family’s recent deals—such as those with the Saudis, or the crypto exchange—even create the appearance of a potential payoff. When asked recently why he had abandoned his former restraint, Trump told the Times that he had discovered “nobody cared.” Is the public really so nonchalant? A year in, the Presidential money-making continues. Read the story