Trump Making Bank Off Ballooning Mar-a-Lago Membership Fee, CNN Reports

CNN’s Alayna Treene took a deep dive into President Donald Trump’s nearly 1,000 page financial disclosure report to find he was making millions off of ballooning membership fees to his properties, including Mar-a-Lago and his Doral golf club.

“One of the big takeaways that we really walked through yesterday was about how the president has made roughly $1.4 billion in money from cryptocurrency. But if you take a deeper look and look at his two premier Florida properties, of course, Mar-a-Lago, but also his Doral resort in Florida, you’re seeing he is bringing in a ton of money on those as well, and much at much higher levels than in previous years,” Treene said,” adding:

Just to break it down for you over the 2025 year, last year, when he was in office, he took in nearly $77.5 million from Mar-a-Lago. That is more than 50% over what it earned him in the previous year, and triple what he was bringing in from the year 2020. Just to give you some context. When you look at Doral, he brought in $122 million in 2025 — he made $110 million in 2024. A lot of, you know, legal experts, ethical experts, are arguing that part of this reason that you’re seeing such a high spike in the revenues that Trump is making from these properties is because so many people want to become members, want to have their events at Mar-a-Lago and his other properties, in part because of that proximity to the president and this idea of trying to gain his ear when he’s holding court, for example, on the patio of his Florida home.

Another big thing where you’ve seen a difference in recent years is that the membership fee at Mar-a-Lago has risen now to $1 million. That is obviously a huge amount. Compare that with what trump was charging members at his Mar-a-Lago club before he ever ran for president before 2016, that membership fee was just $100,000. So, as you dig through all of this, really getting a better sense of how trump, his properties included, are really adding to his big wealth, at the same time as you hear the White House trying to argue that he’s not profiting from his perch here in the white house, you’re seeing a lot of, you know, spikes in his revenue and the money that he is making just over the last year, when he is in office.

“So it looks like this is good for his bottom line,” Treene said of Trump’s second term.

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