As president, Donald Trump has made more money than he was making as a private citizen. His personal income in 2025 nearly quadrupled the earnings from his business ventures in 2024, with most of his $2.2bn gain from cryptocurrency – a nascent space that depends almost entirely on how it is regulated by the government.
It is, by any measure, a staggering amount of money – so much that people are struggling to grasp just how unusual this bonanza actual is.
