Trump's Financial Empire: Huge Crypto Earnings, International Transactions, and Exclusive Properties. Estimated wealth at $6.5 billion
Donald Trump is consolidating his financial empire during his second term as president. The American leader benefits from significant earnings from cryptocurrencies, investments and exclusive properties.
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US President Donald Trump's fortune is now estimated at $6.5 billion, according to the latest Forbes World's Billionaires ranking, up $1.4 billion from last year. He ranks 645th among the 3,428 billionaires on the planet, rising from the 700th position in 2025.
In large part, Trump can thank cryptocurrency trading for this growth. In the past year, he has reportedly earned about $550 million from the sale of crypto tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, the crypto company he and his family launched in September 2024.
Later, he and his partners in the company, including his billionaire special envoy Steve Witkoff and his family, allegedly sold 49% of World Liberty Financial to Aryam Investment, a firm backed by UAE national security adviser and royal family member Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan. According to Forbes, this transaction brought Trump an additional $200 million.
“Gulf leaders know how to deal with this American president. They learned that from the first time, but then he was somewhat limited in how directly he could ask for money. Now it's gone.”, a former diplomat with experience in the region told Forbes last fall.
Trump still owns millions of crypto tokens, both of World Liberty Financial ($WLFI) and his $TRUMP memecoin. Forbes values them at a discount, but together they are worth nearly $570 million to the president.
In addition, there is the value of his remaining 38% stake in World Liberty Financial (which issues the USD1 stablecoin) as an operating business, estimated by Forbes at $240 million.
Trump also received a major boost last August when an appeals court overturned a civil penalty he had been ordered to pay in a civil fraud case in New York. He thus avoided having to pay $517 million, including interest, removing a major debt from his balance sheet, while New York State Attorney General Letitia James is challenging the decision.
Other personal assets of Trump have prospered as people try to curry favor with him or at least show their support. Among them is Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, which has benefited from politics more than any of his other properties.
Purchased by Trump in 1985 for about $10 million, Forbes now estimates the property's value at about $560 million, up nearly $370 million from last year and more than three times as much as in 2018.
At the same time, Trump's 10 golf courses in six US states have appreciated significantly as supporters continue to visit them and profits soar. Those properties are now valued at about $550 million, up from $340 million last year.
Trump would have been even richer had it not been for the recent decline in cryptocurrency prices and shares of Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of the Truth Social Network. His fortune hit a record high of $7.3 billion in September.
However, the more than 15 million World Liberty Financial tokens that Trump owns have lost more than 64% of their value since they began trading publicly that month. Forbes estimates the value of its tokens, after applying a liquidity discount, at $175 million.
At the same time, shares of Trump Media and Technology Group hit an all-time low last month, reducing the value of its stake in the five-year-old company to $1.2 billion from $2.6 billion a year ago. The stock had been falling for months amid steep declines in bitcoin and other tokens, big losses and modest sales.
