How Did Donald Trump Make $1.4 Billion From Crypto?
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How did Donald Trump make over $1 billion from cryptocurrency?
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What are the details of Trump's financial report for 2025?
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It sounds a little bit like that game you play at Christmas when you list what you bought in the shops. I mean, what do they have in common, James? Stuff you can buy... Secondhand online? I don't know.
They are stuff you can buy that is Trump themed. They are all examples of Trump themed items that helped the president amass $4.7 million last year, in addition to the more than a billion dollars he made from business dealings and cryptocurrency.
What role did World Liberty Financial play in Trump's earnings?
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How has Trump's stance on cryptocurrency changed over time?
And we are joined by Gary O'Donoghue, Chief North America Correspondent. Hey Gary.
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Ah, the feeling is mutual, of course. So, Gary, we're going to talk in a minute about the President's Week in the Supreme Court because there's been a fair bit going on. But first, before we get to that, overnight, we've had the President's Mandatory Financial Report for 2025. So this is something that every president has to publish with their kind of financial dealings in it. And this one about President Trump showed that he made more than $1 billion last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency. Can you just talk us through it, what was in it, what it said, what the headlines were?
Yeah, it's kind of mind-boggling. In fact, overall, he made over $2 billion while being president last year, but $1.4 billion of that came from various aspects of his ventures into cryptocurrencies. Now, a few years ago, Donald Trump dismissed cryptocurrency as a place for scammers, a place for illegal activity, a place for drug dealers, but he's utterly embraced it since just before the last election. And essentially what's happened here is he set up and his family set up an organization called World Liberty Financial that itself issues cryptocurrency tokens. There were various other things that they did, including launching a meme coin. The Trump meme coin is a sort of collectible Trump coin.
What ethical questions arise from Trump's financial dealings?
The vast profits from which go to Donald Trump and his family. but which has now plummeted more than 90% since its high point. So it's now under $2. At one point it was $75. And the people who have shouldered that loss are retailers, retail investors or retail buyers, if you like. So he's made about 600 million from the meme coin. He's made hundreds of millions more from the sale of that stake in World Liberty Financial. And he's made a bunch of money on the cryptocurrency issued by World Liberty Financial. He's doing pretty well. I mean, these are revenue figures, so we don't necessarily know what the profits are, but you can, I think, probably assume that the profits are pretty hefty.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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How did Donald Trump make over $1 billion from cryptocurrency?
0:00–0:55
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What are the details of Trump's financial report for 2025?
0:55–1:43
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What role did World Liberty Financial play in Trump's earnings?
1:43–2:15
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How has Trump's stance on cryptocurrency changed over time?
2:15–3:47
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What ethical questions arise from Trump's financial dealings?
3:47–5:13
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What recent Supreme Court rulings impact Trump's presidency?
5:13–6:26
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How does the White House respond to accusations of conflict of interest?
6:26–7:51
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What implications do Trump's financial activities have for future elections?
7:51–32:55