OPINION: While Donald Trump boasted about giving up his presidential salary, he and his family quietly made £1.66 billion from cryptocurrencies, foreign deals and branding ventures - turning the most powerful office in the world into a personal cash machine

Trump had called the industry a "scam" but changed his mind after it backed his 2024 election campaign.

Trump had called the industry a "scam" but changed his mind after it backed his 2024 election campaign.

Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a cash grab.

Mere startups when he took the oath of office, the new ventures have now eclipsed in revenue much of his vast property portfolio

OPINION: While Donald Trump boasted about giving up his presidential salary, he and his family quietly made £1.66 billion from cryptocurrencies, foreign deals and branding…

US President Donald Trump earned roughly $1.2 billion (€1.05bn) from his family's cryptocurrency ventures during his first year back in the White House, according to a federal…

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended earning around $1.2 billion from his family's cryptocurrency activities last year, saying "everybody's profiting" from his time in…

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended earning around $1.2 billion from his family's cryptocurrency activities last year, saying "everybody's profiting" from his time in…

But the outcry is dampened as ‘people have just become numb’ to the grifting during president’s second term

He pocketed at least $2.2 billion, mostly from crypto deals. The White House has insisted “there are no conflicts of interest.”

Trump has normalised the idea that the president’s family can be wheeling and dealing in the very sectors where the White House is making policy decisions.

His investments make money even when his ventures fail!

Donald Trump has brushed off concerns he’s “profiting off presidency”. “ I don't get involved in my personal finances, we have funds that run my money’, he told journalists on…

US President Donald Trump made more than US$1 billion from cryptocurrency last year, according to his annual financial disclosure

Donald Trump dismissed concerns over alleged insider trading and conflicts of interest after financial disclosures showed businesses linked to his family's cryptocurrency ventures…