President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure report showed he took in about $1.2 billion last year from various crypto holdings, overshadowing a real estate business that brought him fame and helped propel him to the nation's top office. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
Whereas it took decades for Trump to amass his various properties, the rise of crypto in his portfolio was done in just over a year, a stunning development sped along by his own friendly policies toward the industry and help from billionaires.
Running over 900 pages, the mandatory annual report showed Trump struck several other new veins of wealth last year. He took in tens of millions from new property holdings in foreign countries, and got tens of millions more suing media companies. Trump even made big money off the smallest of things, pulling in millions by slapping his name on Bibles, guitars and watches — the latter alone bringing in $4.7 million.
Trump got more than $500 million from his World Liberty Financial business selling "governance tokens" and "stablecoins" and other crypto assets. Another crypto business, CIC Digital LLC, took in more than $600 million from sales of souvenir-type "meme" coins stamped with his face. Both the tokens and the meme coins have plunged in value since his sales.
Buyers included Chinese billionaire Justin Sun, who spent $75 million on the tokens and $200 million on the souvenir coins. In February 2025, a federal lawsuit charging Sun with duping investors was paused before being settled for a $10 million fine. Sun has denied his spending on Trump businesses had anything to do with his federal case.