Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, May 24th.

Today on Forbes, Trump has to cough up $115 million in the next 43 days.

The most troublesome loan in Donald Trump's empire, a $115 million mortgage against a Wall Street skyscraper comes due in exactly 43 days.

How the president covers that bill will reveal a lot about his current financial standing

and how politics is shaping it.

The property, 40 Wall Street, seems to be deeply underwater.

Trump controls the building, but not the land on which it sits,

long held by a German shipping family.

The president currently pays $2.5 million a year in ground rent,

but that expense is set to skyrocket to an estimated $16 million in 233,

potentially wiping out all of his $9 million of operating

income. As a result, the asset is now worth about $85 million, according to Forbes' estimates,

or $30 million less than the remaining balance on the loan. To plug the hole, someone will have to come up with a pile of cash.

One option is that the president could foot some or all of the bill himself, tapping the

hundreds of millions he has recently earned from crypto ventures. Forbes last estimated Trump's

liquid holdings at $770 million in March, but much of that is tied up in knots.

Trump has around $600 million in legal liabilities, and he has posted nearly $300 million of

deposits and bonds associated with those obligations. It's also not entirely clear how much of

his liquid assets sit in cryptocurrencies versus

U.S. dollars.

A second possibility is that Trump could find someone willing to refinance the debt.

Given the dearth of profits, it's hard to imagine a typical lender believing the property

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