When Donald Trump’s 2025 financial disclosures were revealed this month, we learned his first year back at the White House was extremely lucrative. In between the mass deportations, East Wing demolition, and war on algae, he made at least $2.2 billion — more than he took in during his entire first term in office and four times what he made the year before he returned to Washington. We also learned more than half of that money came from various crypto ventures — $1.4 billion to be exact — a number staggering in and of itself but even more so in the context of just how much money investors lost betting on the president. A real “heads I win, tails you lose” situation — and we don’t want to shock or upset anyone, but it turns out this is not the only instance in which Trump has managed to profit while others got screwed.
As The Wall Street Journal reports:
A year ago, the Trump family’s crypto venture bought control of a small payments company for $750 million. The deal has been a money loser for almost everyone except the Trumps.The Nasdaq-listed company — previously called Alt5 Sigma, and recently renamed AI Financial — is now in talks to sell its core business to blockchain technology company Perpetuals.com, according to a corporate filing. The price being discussed is for up to $15 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction and company documents.
