Last week, President Donald Trump’s financial disclosures showed he earned more than $2 billion in 2025 — including an astonishing more than $1 billion from his family’s entry into the largely unregulated world of cryptocurrency.
The day after that information became public, Trump began flying on a new $400 million Air Force One that was gifted to his administration by Qatar.
Then on Sunday, we learned that FIFA had set aside a one-game World Cup suspension for US soccer star Folarin Balogun after Trump got involved. It was a highly unusual intervention from a head of state that is now causing an international incident amid European allegations of favoritism and possible corruption. (The US plays Belgium on Monday night.)
Trump’s self-enrichment and transactionality have long been evident — even in-your-face and unapologetic — in his second term. But each day seems to bring fresh, sometimes shocking reinforcement.
And it’s a potential sleeping giant of a political issue for Trump and the Republican Party, with polls showing Americans are inclined to believe the worst about how Trump operates.
