Fox’s Leslie Marshall Says Trump’s Multibillion-Dollar Haul Last Year Shows Just ‘How Tone Deaf’ He Is

Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall said that President Donald Trump’s reported $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency profits show just “how tone deaf” he is during Thursday’s edition of Special Report. 

The president’s 2025 financial disclosure report, released earlier this week, revealed he brought in more than $1 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency ventures. The filing reported roughly $500 million in income from World Liberty Financial, the crypto company founded with his sons Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Barron Trump, along with approximately $635 million from sales of the $TRUMP meme coin through CIC Digital LLC. The disclosure also detailed hundreds of millions of dollars in income from Trump’s real estate holdings and millions more from licensing deals and other business ventures. The president made more than $2 billion overall.

As Fox News host Bret Baier pointed out, if the Democrats win the upcoming midterm elections, the profits will be “ripe territory” for congressional investigations.

“We’re seeing a lot of the MAGA base turning on the president with this,” added Marshall. “They’re saying, ‘Look, he really doesn’t care about us. He’s getting richer, I’m getting poorer. I thought, you know, we elected him because he was gonna make life better for us.’ And better for the American people, whether they’re a Democrat or a Republican, whether they supported Donald Trump or not, is a more affordable life, and that’s just not what’s going to happen.”

Baier went on to ask whether Marshall believes instances like these are “in part fueling some of the populism in the Democratic socialist movement.”

She replied:

Yeah, and I think that’s one of the reasons it’s successful, and I think, also, it just speaks to again, and I’m sorry to say it again, how tone deaf this president and this administration is to the American people. The American people look and say, “Look, this guy is profiting as president. That is not what I elected him to do.”

Watch the full clip above via Fox News.

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