It's hardly a secret that former President Donald Trump's overriding philosophy during his time in office was first and foremost: "How can I, Donald Trump, make this whole thing as good and lucrative as possible for me, Donald Trump?" It is through this lens that Trump almost certainly looks back at his four years in the White House as an unmitigated success, with a new report detailing the massive haul of cash the former president's various businesses brought in between 2017 and 2020.
According to analysis from Forbes magazine, the vast network of properties, private clubs, and other money-making enterprises raked in an astonishing $2.4 billion in revenue from January 2017, when Trump was sworn in as president, to December 2020, in the final weeks of his term. That staggering total was fed largely by Trump's commercial properties and private clubs and golf courses — his two most visible money-making enterprises — with a whopping $270 million coming in from his Doral golf resort alone.
