Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, April 1st. Today on Forbes, here's how much Donald

Trump is worth. What's Donald Trump really worth? Everyone has an opinion, but Forbes has the answer.

$5.1 billion, according to our most recent tally, updated in March. It's been quite a year for

Donald Trump. Twelve months ago, his political prospects were shaky, his financial future

nightmarish. He had an estimated $413 million of cash on his balance sheet and a $454 million

fraud judgment against him in New York State.

Trump did what he does best. He fought, he sold, he won. The result? America's 47th president

has more than doubled his estimated fortune from $2.3 billion to $5.1 billion. It's quite a comeback for the former and now current president.

How did he do it? By taking advantage of his diehard following. First, Trump sold shares of his

money-losing social media platform, leaving him with a stake worth about as much as all his real

estate combined. Then, he pushed his crypto offerings,

which added hundreds of millions in liquidity. Trump learned long ago that delays can be as

valuable as victories. Admitting he could not afford to pay off the $454 million in cash,

Trump's legal team suggested an appeals court waive or reduce the bond amount.

Courts don't always grant such grace, but they did in this case, dropping the requirement to

$175 million and staving off an asset seizure. Then Trump showed why he is the greatest salesman

in American history. The day after the courts extended a lifeline, he took his social media venture, Truth

Social's parent company, public.

It's not much of a business, a few million in revenue, tens of millions in losses,

but that didn't matter to Trump-loving investors, who bid up shares to unconscionable heights,

gambling on the absurdity of it all,

and adding billions to Trump's fortune in the process.

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