David Kirkpatrick

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Planet Money · How much money President Trump and his family have made · 14 Jan 2026 podcast

You know, the Trump family has left a variety of clues to their finances, but none of them are totally transparent.

So you've got to look at the court cases that have been about their reporting to their banks, and you've got to look at what they say in their public financial disclosures, and you've got to look at what they say publicly as well.

So there's a lot of different ways to try to count up their money.

None of them are perfect, and you have to sort of extrapolate among them.

I'd say I'm 100 percent if your target is to be conservative.

So what I have here is a kind of at least number, a minimum number.

Well, the emoluments clause, there's two emoluments clauses.

It feels so quaint.

I know.

People were so strung out about those overpriced martinis.

And really, that's nothing.

In the end, the D.C.

hotel estimated gain zero.

You know, the most lucrative ways and the most creative ways are different.

I have to say the one that surprised me the most is the merch.

So merch is the most surprising to me.

Crypto is the biggest in its many forms.

And then I would say the Gulf real estate is the other one that's the most striking.

Everybody, every politician, every campaign sells merch.

They all sell it for the campaign, right?

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