Crypto Bet, ‘Defiance’ Sculpture Gets Trump Over $1.16bn In His First Year Back
Crypto Bet, ‘Defiance’ Sculpture Gets Trump Over $1.16bn In His First Year Back Published By, Last Updated: July 01, 2026, 21:37 IST Disclosure shows Donald
Crypto Bet, ‘Defiance’ Sculpture Gets Trump Over $1.16bn In His First Year Back Published By, Last Updated: July 01, 2026, 21:37 IST Disclosure shows Donald Trump earned over 1 billion from crypto and memecoin deals, major corporate donations, and legal settlements, with Melania Trump also earning from NFTs File image of US President Donald Trump. A financial disclosure filed on Tuesday puts a number on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House has been worth to him: more than $1.16bn from crypto sales and memecoin royalties in a single year. The bulk of that came from two sources. World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture Trump’s family helped found, brought him $526.8mn from token sales. A separate licensing deal tied to “Celebration Coins" added $635mn in royalties. Trump still holds 15.75bn World Liberty Financial tokens, a stake now worth about $900mn even after the tokens lost much of their value over the year. The filing, required annually under federal law and published by the Office of Government Ethics, also shows how Trump has been paid. Of the proceeds from his World Liberty Financial token sales, more than $33mn came in bitcoin and over $150mn moved through the Ethereum blockchain.
The disclosure runs to extensive listings of stock trades as well. A Policy That Paid Its Architect The scale of the crypto income lines up with what Trump’s administration has done to the industry since January. Regulators have pulled back rules dating to the Biden years, and the government has ended lawsuits against several large crypto firms. The White House changes started early. Trump replaced Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler with Paul Atkins, a crypto advocate. Since then, the SEC has dropped or settled cases against companies including Coinbase, which has since donated to Trump’s inaugural fund and to construction of a new White House ballroom. Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, co-founded World Liberty Financial with sons of White House envoy Steve Witkoff. Trump had promised during his 2024 campaign to make the United States “the bitcoin superpower of the world." The Financial Times reported in October that the family’s crypto businesses had already generated more than $1bn in pre-tax profits over the prior year. Asked about the disclosure, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said Trump and his family had never engaged in conflicts of interest and never would.
A Trump Organization spokesperson described the family company’s position as strong, pointing to its assets, liquidity and balance sheet. Beyond Crypto: Books, Watches And A $250,000 Sculpture Crypto dominates the disclosure, but it is far from the only income stream. Corporate payments to Trump-linked causes also feature: Meta gave $24.5mn to his presidential library project, Alphabet gave $22mn to the Trust for the Mall, which is channelling corporate money into the White House’s new East Wing ballroom, and CBS and ABC each paid $16mn to the library. A lawsuit against Twitter and its founder, Jack Dorsey, brought in a further $8mn. Licensing income added smaller but still substantial sums: $4.7mn from Trump-branded watches, $1.9mn from the book “Save America," $591,000 from the photo book “Letters to Trump," $208,486 from singer Lee Greenwood’s Trump-endorsed Bible, $67,634 from sneakers and fragrances, and $35,920 from a “45"-branded guitar. The filing also lists gifts, among them ten World Cup tickets from FIFA president Gianni Infantino, valued at $15,000, and a $250,000 sculpture called the “Defiance Monument," given by Anthony Constantino, chief executive of Sticker Mule. Constantino recently won a Republican primary for a US House seat in New York with Trump’s endorsement.
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