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Trump Made More Than a Billion Dollars from Cryptocurrency Ventures in First Year Back in Office

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Tonight we learned President Donald Trump collected billions of dollars through an array of cryptocurrency holdings, royalty payments and property investments last year, according to his latest annual financial disclosure released on Tuesday. Plus, the Supreme Court ruled on blockbuster cases on its final day of the term: birthright citizenship, transgender athletes, and campaign finance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening from the newsroom. We begin tonight with breaking news on how much wealthier the president just got in his first year in the Oval Office.

0:10.0

The numbers come from a new federal financial filing just out, more than 900 pages long, and the details are stunning.

0:17.0

Both CNN and the New York Times are breaking it down right now. According to the Times, the windfall amounts to about $1.4 billion from the Trump family's cryptocurrency business alone.

0:28.6

And of that amount, hundreds of millions, according to this filing, are from the meme coin he issued

0:33.6

shortly before taking office and other digital tokens that the family firm World

0:38.3

Liberty Financial sold.

0:40.5

Now just two days into office, the president was asked about the money who was already

0:43.7

bringing in.

0:44.7

Do you intend to continue selling products that benefit yourself personally while

0:50.2

you're president?

0:51.2

Well, I don't know if it benefited.

0:52.9

I don't know where it is. I don't know where it is.

0:58.0

I don't know much about it other than I launched it. I heard it was very successful. I haven't checked it. Where is it today? You made a lot of money, sir. How much?

1:05.3

Several billion dollars, it seems like, in last several days. Several billion. That's peanuts for

1:10.2

these guys.

1:16.3

Well, several weeks ago, a separate analysis by Reuters found that the Trump family has generated at least $2.3 billion from their crypto ventures so far, while investors have

1:21.9

lost about the same amount.

1:24.0

Some of that today's filings reveal were not just from selling crypto itself, but also a portion of the company to foreign investors.

1:30.3

Quoting from the New York Times now, one of his biggest halls in 2025, this is the president, came when an investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates,

1:39.3

bought nearly half of the Trump family's main crypto company, World Liberty Financial, a transaction

1:44.6

that blurred the line between foreign policy and private enterprise.

1:49.6

A short time later, you'll recall, the Emirates struck a deal with the administration to

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