President Donald Trump earned more than $635 million from a licensing agreement with a cryptocurrency group specializing in "meme" coins bearing his name last year, an amount that pushed his total crypto holdings past $1 billion, according to a financial disclosure form released Tuesday.
The figures from 2025 — the first year of Trump's second term — were disclosed to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in a 927-page document. By comparison, President Barack Obama's final disclosure form was eight pages, while President Joe Biden's was 11.
Breakdown of crypto earnings
The $635 million was earned from a group called "Celebration Coins." No digital footprint could be found for the group, and a representative for the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump's meme-coin earnings came on top of more than $236 million from additional crypto token sales, and an additional sale of equity worth more than $65 million associated with Trump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial. The disclosure also lists more than $290 million classified as income from cryptocurrency wallets associated with World Liberty.
Trump's total crypto earnings totaled some $1.4 billion during his first year back in office, according to the disclosure.
Investment in private prison company
The disclosure also lists Trump's investment accounts as buying and selling shares of the GEO Group, a private prison company and one of the largest contractors with ICE. Starting just 10 days after his inauguration, the disclosure shows Trump's investment accounts made purchases of the prison company. As the number of immigrant detainees swelled from 35,000 to almost 70,000, the purchases increased with the total ranging from $143,000 to $445,000. The last purchase was listed in late November. The stock that was sold ranges from $67,000 to $180,000.
Other disclosures and White House response
Other disclosures in the form include first lady Melania Trump making more than $10 million from licensing her image to the producers of the documentary "Melania," and $80 million listed as income from settlements with ABC and anchor George Stephanopoulos, as well as CBS, Meta, YouTube and Sundar Pichai, chief executive of YouTube parent company Google. The proceeds from those settlements were paid to The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation Inc., according to the disclosure form.
"Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest," a White House representative said in a statement. "President Trump proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world through executive actions, supporting legislation like the GENIUS Act, and other commonsense policies to drive innovation and economic opportunity for all Americans."
Unlike past presidents, Trump did not divest his assets or place them in a blind trust before taking office. The Trump Organization has said the assets are managed by third-party financial institutions, with trades executed through automated technology.
"What strikes me as remarkable is how many pies Trump has his fingers in," said Douglas Brinkley, a history professor at Rice University. "There is no precedent to compare it with. No president in the 20th or 21st century has had something that's vaguely comparable."
Because many of the amounts listed on the disclosure form are reported as ranges, it is impossible to state exactly how much Trump earned last year from his tens of thousands of investments.
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