After Once Calling Crypto A ‘Scam,’ President Donald Trump Earned Over $1.4B From It In 2025 Alone – AfroTech
President Donald Trump didn’t see the value in bitcoin at first, but the latest earnings from a federal filing suggest he now sees it differently.
In 2021, Trump said, “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam. I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar,” according to BBC. He found the most merit in the dollar, and wanted it to remain “the currency of the world.”
That position later shifted. Before he took his seat as president for a second term, he launched a $TRUMP meme coin on the Solana blockchain in January 2025. Forbes reports that within 60 hours of the coin’s launch, it reached a fully diluted valuation of $70 billion, one of the highest in the crypto sector.
Trump has already made more than $635 million, according to NBC News, citing a licensing agreement with Celebration Coins, the crypto group behind the $TRUMP coin.
Separately, earnings from additional crypto sales totaled more than $236 million, per the outlet.
Trump’s crypto earnings also soared as a result of his venture World Liberty Financial, which sells governance tokens and other crypto products, according to PBS. A combined $65 million in equity and $290 million in income are tied to crypto wallets associated with World Liberty Financial, NBC reported.
In total, Trump’s crypto gains amount to over $1.4 billion from 2025 alone, BBC noted. His net worth sits at $6.3 billion, according to Forbes. The White House denies that Trump is profiting from being president and says his ventures are held in a trust managed by his sons, per BBC.
“Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged – or will ever engage – in conflicts of interest,” said White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly in a statement, according to BBC. “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people – and any so-called ‘reporters’ pushing otherwise are recycling the same, tired, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade.”
