How Trump Makes His Money, From Golf Courses To Crypto
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political reporter Stephen Fowler, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | On the Planet Money podcast, the economic world we've been living in for decades was built on some basic assumptions. |
| 0:06.2 | But the people who built that world are long gone. |
| 0:08.9 | And right now, those assumptions are kind of up in the air. |
| 0:12.0 | Like the dollar as the reserve currency. |
| 0:14.6 | Is that era over? |
| 0:16.3 | If so, what could replace it? |
| 0:17.8 | And what does that mean for the rest of us? |
| 0:19.8 | Listen to the Planet Money podcast from NPR wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.1 | Hey, this is Chelsea calling from my local rock climbing gym at the top of the wall. This podcast was recorded at 107 p.m. on Thursday, June 26. |
| 0:35.7 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully I'll be down from the top of the wall. |
| 0:44.1 | So after my vacation where I repelled off of waterfalls, I was like, hey, kids, we should go to a rock climbing gym and do more of this. |
| 0:52.7 | And they were like, no. |
| 0:56.2 | What goes up must come down. You know, the surprising place that I never thought I would see |
| 1:01.1 | like a humongous rock climbing wall and they take it really seriously was in Reno, Nevada. |
| 1:06.8 | Huh. Went on a station visit there, the hotel I was in. One of the entire floors was rock climbing. It's like a thing. It was awesome. I can't do it, but good for them. |
| 1:15.4 | Upper body strength. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm Stephen Fowler. I cover politics. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 1:25.3 | From Trump Tower to Trump's stakes, President Trump's business ventures have always been about the Trump brand. |
| 1:31.7 | Today on the show, we're talking about what that means now that the man behind the brand is back in the White House and selling. |
| 1:39.1 | Watches, Bibles, cryptocurrency. |
| 1:42.2 | It's a turban watch with almost 200 grams of gold and more than 100 |
| 1:47.2 | real diamonds. That's a lot of diamonds. I love gold. I love diamonds. We all do. Stephen, |
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