MAGA Voters Rip Trump for Making $2B While in Office During Searing MS NOW Vox Pop: ‘I Don’t Think He Can Make Up for It’

MAGA voters in Florida unloaded on President Donald Trump for getting “richer and richer” in office, telling MS NOW that it was “frustrating” to see the president’s income swell during his first year in office while the middle class was getting “poorer.”

Trump’s latest annual financial disclosure, released on Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, showed the president more than tripled his income in 2025, the year he returned to the White House, making over $2 billion.

The president’s business empire generated more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency-related ventures in a filing that also listed more than $635 million from a licensing agreement with Celebration Coins and roughly $500 million in proceeds from token sales distributed by World Liberty Financial LLC, the Trump family-backed crypto company launched in 2024, according to the documents.

In a segment that aired on Morning Joe on Thursday, several Florida residents who had voted for Trump were asked about the disclosures, and every one was unhappy with how much the president has profited.

“That’s very frustrating to actually hear that. And like I said, I don’t do the politics and stuff, but to hear that come from another American that, you know, is not getting $2 million put in their pocket,” Olivia Danielle told the MS NOW reporter.

“$2 billion,” the reporter corrected.

Stunned, she added: “$2 billion, $2 million, $2 trillion – you know, that’s a lot of money. You know, that’s a lot of money. And that would help out a lot of people around here, a lot of homeless people. You could open shelters. You could really help somebody out with that.”

“Somebody’s making money on the side. It’s not me. That’s all I got to say,” MAGA voter Allen Warfield said.
“Is it frustrating?” the reporter pressed.

He replied: “It’s frustrating that you see your president getting richer and richer, and the middle class is getting poorer, and that’s about it.”

One MAGA voter at a gas station, Jerry Lepore, told the network: “Life in America right now, the economy is tough. People are struggling, you know, and hopefully it’ll change.”

Another man, Kevin Chavez, raged at Trump more specifically: “He definitely made lots of promises and he made them seem like they were going to come a lot quicker, faster than they actually were to ever come or ever will come.”

“Like, like 90% of all the elections in the past, you know, the candidates, they promised the moon and fall short at the end of the day,” he continued.

He added: “But I mean, I don’t think it was the Donald Trump that we saw in 2016, and I don’t think that he can make up for it in what’s left of his current term.”

Watch above via MS NOW.

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