{"id":33514,"date":"2026-07-01T05:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/president-donald-trump-made-more-from-crypto-than-resorts-in-2025-filing-says\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:19:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:19:45","slug":"president-donald-trump-made-more-from-crypto-than-resorts-in-2025-filing-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/president-donald-trump-made-more-from-crypto-than-resorts-in-2025-filing-says\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump made more from crypto than resorts in 2025, filing says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released President Donald Trump\u2019s certified annual financial disclosure report on June 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_8f1016a843c1b482d68a98a4cc10e7e4\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump\u2019s 2025 filing showed crypto income above $1.4 billion, led by memecoin and WLFI proceeds.<\/li>\n<li>Real estate and resort income lagged behind crypto, despite stronger revenue from several golf properties.<\/li>\n<li>Public Citizen urged Congress to restrict officeholders\u2019 crypto holdings, while the White House denied conflicts.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oge.gov\/web\/oge.nsf\/News%2BReleases\/B8B9EA45F5EB86EC85258E2600701B77?opendocument=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">filing<\/a> showed more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto-related ventures in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The total placed crypto ahead of Trump\u2019s real estate, golf and resort businesses. The filing showed a shift in the sources of his income, with Trump-branded memecoins and World Liberty Financial becoming the largest reported earners.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Memecoins and WLFI drove the total<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The filing showed about $635 million in income from Trump-branded memecoins. Reuters <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-reports-more-than-14-billion-income-crypto-ventures-2026-06-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> that the income came from royalties linked to a license agreement with Celebration Coins.<\/p>\n<p>World Liberty Financial was another major source of income. The same filing showed hundreds of millions of dollars tied to token sales and business interests connected to the Trump family\u2019s DeFi venture.<\/p>\n<p>A Galaxy Research post on X also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/glxyresearch\/status\/2072069587470836027?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pointed<\/a> to crypto holdings listed in the disclosure. These included Bitcoin, Ether, USDC and other digital assets held in cold wallets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump just disclosed that he owns more than $50m of Bitcoin in a cold wallet <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EbjwR1abGV\">pic.twitter.com\/EbjwR1abGV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Galaxy Research (@glxyresearch) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/glxyresearch\/status\/2072069587470836027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>White House rejects conflict claims<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The disclosure renewed questions about Trump\u2019s role as president while his family\u2019s crypto ventures generated large income.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-reports-more-than-14-billion-income-crypto-ventures-2026-06-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <\/a>His administration pushed a friendlier crypto policy stance during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly rejected conflict claims. She said, \u201cNeither the President nor his family has ever engaged \u2014 or will ever engage \u2014 in conflicts of interest.\u201d She also said Trump had \u201cproudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Watchdogs press Congress to act<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Consumer advocacy group <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/news\/trumps-obscene-1-4-billion-in-crypto-grift-income-shows-why-congress-must-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Public Citizen<\/a> called the reported crypto income an \u201cobscene crypto grift\u201d and urged Congress to act. Robert Weissman, the group\u2019s co-president, said Trump\u2019s personal profit interest had aligned him with the crypto industry.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported by crypto.news, Senate Democrats recently asked for hearings into a reported $500 million UAE-linked investment in World Liberty Financial. The lawmakers questioned whether the deal had any link to later U.S. policy decisions involving arms sales and AI chip access for the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by crypto.news, earlier scrutiny also focused on the TRUMP memecoin and a Mar-a-Lago gala for top token holders. That report said Trump family-linked entities had earned more than $320 million in TRUMP transaction fees since the token launched in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The new filing adds an official financial record to the debate. It shows that crypto became a larger reported income source for Trump in 2025 than the business lines most tied to his brand.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released President Donald Trump\u2019s certified annual financial disclosure report on June 30.\u00a0 Summary Trump\u2019s 2025 filing showed crypto income above $1.4 billion, led by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33516,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514\/revisions\/33516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}