Trump Earned 3.5 Trillion Won Last Year: From Crypto Ventures to Bibles and Perfume

U.S. President Donald Trump has been found to have generated massive profits from various personal brand businesses, including Bibles, perfumes, and watches, during his time in office.

According to foreign media outlets such as The Washington Post (WP) and the BBC, President Trump reported over 2.2 billion dollars (approximately 3.42 trillion won) in income last year in his 2025 financial disclosure report submitted to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE).

This is an increase of more than 1.6 billion dollars from the approximately 600 million dollars in income reported in 2024, just before he returned to office.

The report, which spans 927 pages, covers a wide range of income sources.

Amid President Trump's implementation of policies favorable to the virtual asset industry, it was revealed that he earned approximately 1.4 billion dollars from related businesses alone.

In addition, he generated significant income from real estate, licensing businesses, and the sale of various branded products.

First, he earned millions of dollars from so-called Trump merchandise bearing his name.

He earned 208,000 dollars from Bibles promoted by President Trump, 1.8 million dollars from the photo book Save America, and 67,000 dollars from Trump-branded sneakers and perfume.

A limited-edition guitar called the America Eagle also added 36,000 dollars to his finances through purchases by musicians with MAGA (Make America Great Again) leanings, his core support base.

President Trump, who has a history of appearing in movies and TV shows, also received a pension of 86,532 dollars from the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) last year.

He made a cameo appearance in the 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as a passerby who gives directions to the protagonist, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin).

He reported 86.5 million dollars in compensation obtained through lawsuits filed against various media outlets.

Real estate business also remained a key source of income.

Trump National Doral, a golf resort in Florida, and Mar-a-Lago, a private residence and members-only resort, continued to serve as stable cash generators, recording 122 million dollars and 77 million dollars in revenue, respectively.

His wife, Melania Trump, also earned 10.7 million dollars from a documentary film about herself produced by Amazon.

Norman Eisen, who served as a White House ethics advisor during the Barack Obama administration, told the WP, "This is by far the largest scale of a presidency being used for private gain in U.S. history."

He criticized the situation, stating, "There has never been a time when there was both a president who was thoroughly monetizing the White House and foreign governments and special interest groups willing to pay vast sums of money."

On the other hand, the White House dismissed the allegations of conflicts of interest.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement, "The President and his family have not, and will not, engage in conflicts of interest," and refuted the related allegations as "stale and false claims."

On July 1 (local time), before boarding Air Force One, Trump met with reporters and attributed his wealth increase to the fact that "the stock market is going up," adding, "Americans should thank me for the increase in the value of their retirement assets."

However, the WP analyzed the financial disclosure data and found that stock investment profits did not account for a large portion of his wealth increase, and that Trump's wealth growth last year was largely driven by the expansion of his cryptocurrency business and personal brand businesses.

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