Trump Earned at Least $2.2 Billion After Returning to White House, NYT Reports

Since 2025, the U.S. president has received about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency projects and another roughly $800 million from transactions involving other assets, including real estate.

The main source of income was the crypto business. According to the NYT, it brought Trump hundreds of millions of dollars from sales of the $TRUMP memecoin and digital tokens issued by World Liberty.

Trump, together with his three sons, took part in creating the crypto company World Liberty, which issues the digital currency $WLFI. Last year, the company sold tokens to investors around the world, with 75% of each sale going to one of Trump’s business entities. According to the report, Trump received about $500 million from these sales last year, compared with $57 million in 2024.

In January 2025, a few days before Trump’s inauguration, an investment company linked to the UAE government acquired a 49% stake in World Liberty. The disclosure does not directly list this deal, but it does show unnamed investments that brought Trump more than $200 million.

Another major source of crypto income was the $TRUMP memecoin, whose sales intensified shortly before the inauguration. According to the report, Trump earned more than $600 million from it. The coin’s price first surged, then collapsed and has recently held at around $1.67.

The Trump family also continued to receive significant income from real-estate branding deals. Projects in the Middle East brought in at least $35 million last year. Deals in Vietnam and Romania, as well as older projects in India, Turkey and Indonesia, together generated at least another $20 million.

Trump’s largest U.S. real-estate assets also showed high returns. Trump National Golf Club in Miami brought in $122 million, while Mar-a-Lago generated $77 million.

Against the backdrop of rising income, Trump reduced some financial liabilities after resolving several long-running legal problems. In particular, an appeals court overturned a nearly half-billion-dollar judgment in a New York civil fraud case.

At the same time, the disclosure shows that Trump still owes more than $50 million to writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexual assault and defamation.

The report also reflects other legal victories for Trump, including payments from ABC News, Paramount and Meta. ABC settled Trump’s defamation lawsuit; Paramount agreed to pay compensation over the editing of an interview on 60 Minutes; and Meta settled a lawsuit related to the blocking of Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts after the events of January 6, 2021, at the Capitol.