Trump Discloses Over $1.2 Billion in Crypto Earnings, $50M in Bitcoin Holdings

[PrivacyG]

People clearly fell for his marketing and are still falling really hard for it.  The significant crypto earnings are I suppose no surprise to any of us particularly after their Shit Coins.  Trump will continue to do Trump things.  I would be happy for The United States if they get pro Cryptocurrency regulations but it is a shame the person who is making this possible is pretty much pulling the rug from under the feet of his own supporters.

[Synchronice]

Anyone who has followed Trump just a little bit would know that he is a highly corrupt businessman, probably the most sleazy of all the billionaires. He will say the right things trying to secure any deal, but then not uphold his side of the bargain and usually screw the opposite party out of money. You can see the same type of practices leaking into his politics, but now he has a different type of power to wield over his cult fans. It's only the sheep who followed him blindly, who are marketed at relentlessly to empty their pockets, who ultimately paid for this fortune and I'm not sure anyone should have sympathy for them when considering the mess he's made of America. He will continue to corruptly enrich himself, close associates and family for the next couple years - probably cranking it up along the road at, especially as he will be jealous of Elon Musk.

When a millionaire or billionaire comes into politics, they do this to earn even more millions and billions. Why do people expect that a businessman, a billionaire has the motivation to change the life of others for better? He wouldn't be a billionaire if he was that hungry for helping people because if he was that hungry, he would pay higher salaries his own employees, he would use his money to help poor people and so on. The status answers everything, he is a billionaire. You can only become a billionaire by collecting money, not by spending money. But people love beautiful lies, they were always like this, they always loved lies, so I don't feel pity for anyone who made a mistake by following him.

[aioc]

The figure is not really surprising. He has been a cunning businessman all his life, taking and creating opportunities just to enrich himself, and he has a few years left, so expect that figure to go up.
Other businessmen will try to emulate what he's done because when you have absolute power in your hands, you want to make sure that your hands will be first to be full before anything else, so what can we say but congratulations, Trump, you did it again.

[slapper]

But Bitcoin is not really a meme coin. It is not WLF. It is not a licensing agreement with Celebration Coins. They have a technology layer, the blockchain infrastructure, and that is it - one of these things has no issuer, no royalty structure, no family running it, no president's face on it. It is a protocol it does not matter who you are and it cannot be told to create $635 million for you.

The other is just that. Structured to.

What I find interesting, and I am going to keep coming back to it, is that Trump's own portfolio implicitly makes this distinction. The Bitcoin he owns - $50 million - is where it remains. Sovereign. Indifferent. It does not pay him royalties! The protocol does not collect licensing fees from anybody. If you have it, you have it; if you do not have it, you do not. WLF and the meme coin are two that are, as different, architecturally engineered to make money off their participants, using the information and power imbalance that crypto was supposed to prevent.

I believe that this moment is really a moment of whether crypto has enough self-awareness to say that is not us. Bitcoin did not do this. That matters. If the community does not make that argument clearly and loudly, the word 'crypto' becomes forever linked to this and everything it represents.

[TastyChillySauce00]

It only needs a meme coin and WLFI presale to create billions of wealth for Trump. Honestly speaking, nobody forces anyone to follow his presale and buy his meme coin, people flock without thinking twice and the holders of both these coins are in negative.
I put partly the blame to the people who keep buying useless meme coins over and over. It's doing nothing good to the ecosystem.

[fruktik]

Anyone who has followed Trump just a little bit would know that he is a highly corrupt businessman, probably the most sleazy of all the billionaires. He will say the right things trying to secure any deal, but then not uphold his side of the bargain and usually screw the opposite party out of money. You can see the same type of practices leaking into his politics, but now he has a different type of power to wield over his cult fans. It's only the sheep who followed him blindly, who are marketed at relentlessly to empty their pockets, who ultimately paid for this fortune and I'm not sure anyone should have sympathy for them when considering the mess he's made of America. He will continue to corruptly enrich himself, close associates and family for the next couple years - probably cranking it up along the road at, especially as he will be jealous of Elon Musk.

Wow, you described Trump and his activities so perfectly. He's the most corrupt person in the world, and his family is also taking advantage of Donald's position and making huge sums of money through illegal activities. This old man should be sitting not in the presidential chair, but in the electric chair. He understands absolutely nothing about domestic politics and is leading the country to total collapse. He doesn't care at all about the consequences of his rule. He's here to make money by any means necessary.

How stupid do you have to be to become his followers? Have people really gone completely blind and lost their critical thinking skills?

[iv4n]

All Trump's tokens are trading on a very low price comparing it to when they were launched.

While others lose, Trump makes a profit!

The $TRUMP meme coin has fallen dramatically from its all-time high of about $74 in January 2025 to around $1.70 today—a decline of roughly 97–98%.

https://www.coinbase.com/price/official-trump?q=trump

I knew he had some ventures in the crypto world, but I didn't realize he earned so much money... When you are president of the US, you can do things, right?

The figure is not really surprising. He has been a cunning businessman all his life, taking and creating opportunities just to enrich himself, and he has a few years left, so expect that figure to go up.
Other businessmen will try to emulate what he's done because when you have absolute power in your hands, you want to make sure that your hands will be first to be full before anything else, so what can we say but congratulations, Trump, you did it again.

A cunning businessman, a showman... but he did it again. What a crazy world...

[Karl_3000]

It only needs a meme coin and WLFI presale to create billions of wealth for Trump. Honestly speaking, nobody forces anyone to follow his presale and buy his meme coin, people flock without thinking twice and the holders of both these coins are in negative.
I put partly the blame to the people who keep buying useless meme coins over and over. It's doing nothing good to the ecosystem.

You said only, what you have mentioned are three which are Trump, Melania and WLFI. He has a stable coin called USD1 which I can see on many exchanges, it gained some money through the stable coins that is backed by fiat also. Some people will believe that it is trump, but I hope that they have learned already because when it comes to crypto, Trump is not different from the developers that are creating coins that will be pumped and dumped in a way that most people will lose.

[justdimin]

Announcing 1.2b income from grifting people who bought his meme and invested in any of projects linked to his family. It gets worsen with how the headline makes it sounds he's a master of investing.

At this point i finally come to conclusion if he has no shame. How many % of 1.2b came from his Trump and Melania meme. How many % of 1.2b came from his insiders in polymarket. How many % of 1.4 came from his WLFI project.

This the consequence when CEO is running a country. He uses his position as a president to justify all of bad things he has done.

Are we sure that we should blame him? I hate the guy as much as the next person, but he is not a moron, he is just a bad person and he is a bad person that explains why he is a bad person as well, not like he hides being a bad person. This dude has scammed people for 4 decades now, he has done this repeatedly and also boosted about how great he is about scamming people, either normal person or even banks, doesn't matter.

And he talked about how he avoids taxes as well, doesn't pay it, and then they asked him to fix the finances of a country, I assume they thought he could scam others and make USA great that way? No idea. But when someone explains how he is a bad person, for 4 decades, and you still give him your money, then is he really the one to blame? Or are the people who got scammed are there to be blamed?