Our profit making president

The Congressional Insider -  Trump disclosed over $1.44 billion in crypto income in 2025, including $635 million from meme coins and $500 million from World Liberty Financial token sales.

The Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling in Trump v. United States gives presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts — and bars official acts from being used as evidence even in cases involving private conduct.

Some legal commentators argue the ruling could complicate investigations that involve both official presidential actions and private business activities.

A key legal gap remains: Trump’s crypto ventures appear to be private business activities, not official presidential acts — meaning the immunity ruling may not directly protect them.

President Trump’s financial disclosure for 2025 showed more than $1.44 billion in cryptocurrency income. That includes roughly $635 million tied to “Trump meme coins” and about $500 million from token sales through World Liberty Financial. A separate deal between World Liberty Financial and a company called Alt5 Sigma generated around $500 million more, with the president and his family listed as beneficiaries. The scale of the reported earnings has intensified debate over conflicts of interest and the separation between public office and private business.

Trump’s sons helped co-found World Liberty Financial. The company received $1.5 billion worth of tokens, giving the Trump family a direct financial stake in the venture’s success. A CNBC report found that some investors in the Alt5 Sigma deal suffered steep losses, even as the Trump family profited. Critics on both the left and right have raised concerns about whether a sitting president should be able to run profit-generating businesses that could be influenced by his own policy decisions

Alternet  -   The Wall Street Journal reports that not only did President Donald Trump make a cool $1 billion off his connections to the White House, he managed to do it in a way that made his MAGA fans and supporters catch the short end of the grifting stick.

Morten Christensen made a big bet on digital tokens sold by the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial (WLF) last year, hoping that a surge in value might be enough to help him retire. But the WSJ reports the value of those tokens instead tanked.

“While Christensen and many like him lost big, the president made a fortune, netting $800 million from that crypto project, according to a financial disclosure he filed this week.

“In crypto, people say a game is a game,” said Christensen, a digital-asset entrepreneur. “He played a better game than I did.”

Others were much less generous over their losses.

“My investment is trash now,” one user said of their WLF tokens.

"People backed Trump because they believed he would fight for them and were hoodwinked into thinking he cared about the working classes who brought him into power,” said a longtime Republican activist familiar with grassroots sentiment among Trump's MAGA base. “Seeing billions tied to crypto makes some loyal supporters uncomfortable and most of them have no idea what crypto is, let alone have the resources to invest in it. They feel this isn't public service anymore."

“The president raked in cash by issuing new assets — World Liberty tokens and memecoins. But those who bought them at high prices had to suffer as their value went belly up, part of a wider crash in crypto,” reports WSJ. “Political followers and crypto true believers who bought into the Trump brand were left holding the bag. A crypto summer for the president was a crypto winter for them.”

MS Now -   Since their father won a second term, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — President Donald Trump’s two eldest sons, neither of whom hold official roles in the administration — have become linked to investments in at least 10 companies with military applications. Those firms have collectively received about $3.7 billion in federal funds since the start of the second Trump administration, according to an MS NOW review of public records. Three hit record levels of Defense Department funding within the last year.

 Over the equivalent timespan at the end of the Biden administration, those same companies took in nearly $2.8 billion in federal contracts. Three had no federal contracts at all before Trump’s second term — including the drone startup, founded in 2025.