How much has Trump made in the White House?

David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker -   -This past summer, I set out to tally up just how much the Trumps have made off the Presidency—to sum it all up in a number. The total then was $3.4 billion. Nearly six months later, at the end of Trump’s first year back in the White House, I am updating my reporting: the total has now reached four billion dollars.

Trump promised at the start of his first term that neither he nor his family would ever do anything that might even be “perceived to be exploitive of the office of the Presidency.” But all the deals I included in my tally do precisely that. A few of the Trump family’s recent deals—such as those with the Saudis, or the crypto exchange—even create the appearance of a potential payoff. When asked recently why he had abandoned his former restraint, Trump told the Times that he had discovered “nobody cared.” Is the public really so nonchalant? A year in, the Presidential money-making continues. More