The Family Business: How the Trumps Sold America and Kept the Change
1. 💰 The $TRUMP Meme Coin — $616 Million
Launched three days before inauguration. The Trump family holds roughly 80% of the coins and has collected approximately $616 million in trading fees while buyers lost more than $700 million. The coin has fallen 97% from its January 2025 peak. He pumped it by inviting the top 220 investors to a White House dinner. Your losses were his profit. Newsweek
2. 🏦 World Liberty Financial — $1.4 Billion
World Liberty Financial has brought the Trump family more than $1.4 billion from sales of governance tokens through a structure that directs 75% of proceeds to Trump-controlled entities. Days before Trump’s inauguration, an Abu Dhabi investment vehicle backed by the UAE’s national security advisor purchased 49% of World Liberty Financial for $500 million, sending approximately $187 million to entities controlled by the Trump family. Shortly after, the Trump administration approved export of advanced AI chips to the UAE despite national security concerns. Access purchased. Policy delivered. Council on Foreign RelationsIran International
3. ✈️ The Qatar Plane — $400 Million
Trump accepted a jumbo jet from Qatar, then signed a NATO-like security guarantee with them via executive order, vowing to defend the country if attacked by a foreign power. No congressional approval. No public debate. A foreign government gave the president a $400 million airplane and got a defense treaty. The Constitution calls this an emolument. Trump calls it a gift. CNN
4. 📱 The White House Dinner for Crypto Investors
Trump bumped the value of his $TRUMP memecoin by 60% by offering a White House dinner to the top 220 coin holders. Access to the president of the United States, auctioned to the highest bidder, priced in a coin he controls. The dinner cost the public nothing. It cost democracy considerably more.
5. 🤝 Kushner’s Saudi Billions — $4.8 Billion
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners holds over $4.8 billion in foreign funds, including $2 billion from the Saudi Public Investment Fund, and has collected over $100 million in management fees from the Saudis — who reportedly supported Trump’s Iran war. Kushner is simultaneously one of the lead negotiators of that war. His father-in-law started the war. His Saudi clients funded it. He collected the fees. Al Jazeera Centre for Studies
6. 🪙 The Pardon-for-Crypto Pipeline
Trump suspended an SEC fraud investigation into crypto billionaire Justin Sun just weeks after Sun invested $75 million into World Liberty Financial. He pardoned the Binance founder after Binance helped develop the code for USD1, Trump’s stablecoin. Days after the pardon, Binance began promoting USD1 to U.S. investors. The pattern: invest in Trump’s crypto, get regulatory relief or a pardon. Pay to play. Then play. PBS
7. ⚡ The Taser Trade — Up to $5 Million
Trump’s trust purchased between $1 million and $5 million in Axon Enterprise stock on February 10. Fourteen days later, ICE posted a $220 million solicitation for Tasers with specifications that match only Axon’s TASER 10. Axon stock surged 34% in the week after the announcement. The White House says there’s no conflict. They say that about everything. Wikipedia
8. 👶 Barron’s $150 Million
Barron Trump, 20 years old, is worth an estimated $150 million, derived almost entirely from his stake in World Liberty Financial and its USD1 stablecoin, which has a market cap of $2.6 billion. He did not build a company. He did not develop a product. He was born with the right last name. American meritocracy, alive and well. House
9. 🌍 The Foreign Tribute Machine — $2.3 Billion
A Reuters analysis found the Trump family added at least $2.3 billion to its fortune through crypto ventures since the 2024 election, while investors in those projects collectively lost roughly $2.3 billion. As of January 2026, the Committee’s analysis shows that Trump’s pay-to-play schemes have contributed to an estimated $2.25 billion in realized profits, with at least $436 million coming from foreign interests. Foreign governments are not giving Trump money because they like him. They’re giving him money because he responds to money. Rolling StonePBS
10. 🏌️ The Golf Presidency — $100 Million in Public Funds
Trump spent over $600,000 of National Parks funding to rip up and replace the walkway from the White House to the Oval Office with black granite tiles. He has spent more than 400 days at his own golf properties, where the Secret Service and staff are required to pay market rates — to Trump — for rooms, carts, and meals. Since January 2025, the federal government has paid Trump’s own businesses tens of millions of dollars to protect the president at properties he owns. The government is his customer. You are paying the bill. Common Dreams
The Total
Forbes pegged Trump’s net worth at $6.3 billion as of April 2026 — nearly three times his estimated $2.4 billion at the start of 2024. The growth is not from real estate or golf. It is from the presidency. From the coins, the tokens, the planes, the dinners, the pardons, the contracts, the trees.
On the 250th birthday of a republic founded on the principle that no man is king, the president planted 47 trees in his own honor, put his face on the passport, named a fighter jet after himself, and pocketed another day’s worth of crypto fees from people who bought his coin.
Happy Fourth of July.