Donald Trump swept in over 1 billion dollars on his crypto investments in 2025. In addition, the US President earned enormous sums from licensing agreements and legal settlements.

The crypto income included 635 million dollars in royalty revenues through a company linked to Trump’s “memecoin”, which was launched only days before his inauguration. In addition came more than 500 million dollars in revenues from the sale of tokens through World Liberty Financial, Trump’s main crypto company. This is shown in a document from the Office of Government Ethics, according to the Wall Street Journal.

World Liberty Financial was established by Trump’s sons and the son of the US special envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been central in the negotiations in the Iran war and the Ukraine war.

Trump also received at least 86.5 million dollars in legal settlements. This includes an amount of 24.5 million dollars from Meta and 16 million dollars from both Paramount and Disney. Trump moreover made a profit in the stock market with his investments in large, well-established companies such as Amazon, Meta, Nvidia and Tesla.

The Trump family runs an extensive business empire with interests ranging from hotels and golf resorts to brand licensing and drone companies. The presidential family has placed particular emphasis on cryptocurrency, and the President has also promoted measures to ease regulation of this new sector.

Unsurprisingly, ethics watchdogs have criticised Trump for expanding his business empire while sitting in the White House. One of the critics is Kedric Payne, senior director of ethics at the Campaign Legal Center, an organisation that monitors ethical matters.

“The President’s conflicts of interest with the crypto industry are unparalleled. We have never before seen a president with direct conflicts of interest between his financial holdings and the policies he supports, and this is yet another example of why we need comprehensive ethics reform now.”

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said on Tuesday that Trump has made the USA the “world capital of cryptocurrency”. Kelly emphasised that none of the President’s investments conflicted with the interests of the American people.

“Neither the President nor his family has ever been involved in – or will ever be involved in – conflicts of interest. All measures from President Trump and his administration are implemented in the best interest of the American people.”

President Trump himself credited the sharp increase in his income to a booming stock market from which all American investors benefit, including the Treasury.

“Do you know why I make money? Because the stock market is rising. We all make money. I make money because I have a lot of money and a lot of cash,” Trump said to journalists.

President Trump also had large revenues from many of his other investments; here it can be mentioned that Trump reported an income of 77 million dollars from his resort Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and 122 million dollars from Trump National Doral in Miami.

In total, Trump has almost tripled his fortune over the last two years. He has been US President for a year and a half during this period.