Mary Childs

Like Bill Clinton's very well-paying speaking engagements, George W. Bush's book, Barack Obama's Netflix deal.

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Those are campaign donations.

They are not personal profit.

They don't go to the president.

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And I'm Mary Childs.

Today on the show, we get out the counting machine and tally up the minimum amount of money Trump and his family have made or profited, as David puts it, off of the presidency.

And this was not an easy undertaking.

There's the one that restricts the president from getting paid by the federal government or states besides his salary.

And the other restricts gifts from foreign leaders.

That was from the first term.

In general, from Trump's first term, he and his family did not profit all that much.

A couple hundred million.

But the second term is a different story.

It's really the basis of David's hefty magazine article.

Those are the three we're going to pause and go into detail on.

But we're going to tally up what the Trump family has made across a few different categories, like hospitality deals, finance, the full list.

From all the merch, Trump has made about $27.7 million.

Yeah, this category includes all the many lawsuits Trump has brought against big media companies like ABC, CBS, Meta.