Trump and His Family Will Make a Shocking $3.4 Billion Off White House: Analysis
Representation of the $Trump meme coin together with Bitcoin and crypto coins, seen in this photo illustration. Taken in Brussels, Belgium, On 2 March 2025. (Jonathan Raa / Sipa USA)
An in-depth analysis from The New Yorker published Monday examined how the Trump family has made billions as a result of President Donald Trump’s time in office.
The piece, written by David D. Kirkpatrick, examines the various revenue streams that have opened up for the family since Trump first took office in 2017. One of the first revenue streams came from Trump’s Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago. On this, Kirkpatrick said:
In addition to the revenue he generated by holding his own campaign events at his club, he has profited from other candidates, conservative groups, and influence seekers rushing to hold events there, too. The club says that it limits membership to five hundred people; each reportedly pays an annual fee of about twenty thousand dollars. But after the 2016 election Trump began jacking up the initiation fee. In 2016, it was a hundred thousand dollars; last fall, it was set to rise to a million.
Using publicly available financial disclosures, it’s estimated that Trump profited $125 million with Mar-a-Lago.
Trump’s most lucrative streams came from his recent embrace of cryptocurrency. Although he previously called the crypto industry a “scam” and claimed that the prices were “based on thin air,” Trump began making serious investments. To date, he has made an estimated $412.5 million on token investments. A financial investment company known as World Liberty Financial gave the Trump family millions of digital assets in return for their promotion.
Then, Trump Media fully embraced the industry by selling crypto assets to “ordinary investors” in the form of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The report continued:
Dozens of better-established investment firms are also setting up crypto E.T.F.s. But Trump Media, which trumpets slogans about the Patriot Economy, is the only one tied to the President. Devin Nunes, the C.E.O. of Trump Media and a former Republican congressman, said in a statement that its E.T.F.s would offer an alternative to “woke funds” and cater to “investors who believe in America First principles.” The size of the market for Trump Media’s planned E.T.F.s remains to be seen.
Not long after the Trump brothers put American Bitcoin in motion, Trump Media began speculating on crypto. This past spring, the company, taking advantage of its high meme-stock share price, raised more than $2.3 billion by selling shares and convertible bonds in private transactions to about fifty big investors. Then, in July, Trump Media said it had spent that money on bitcoin and on options for more.
Trump Media’s embrace of crypto alone has reportedly netted the president and his family $1.3 billion. In total, Trump has an estimated profit of $3.4 billion from his time in the White House, according to the report.
