Trump Family Rakes in Crypto Billions While Ordinary Investors Lose Big

President Donald Trump's family has made over $1.4 billion through their cryptocurrency venture in 2025, despite the president calling Bitcoin a 'scam' in 2021.

The Trump family launched their main crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, in fall 2024, and in January 2025, an Abu Dhabi royal's company secretly bought nearly half of it, steering $187 million to Trump family entities. The move came after months of candidate Trump's overtures to the industry.

Bitcoin hit an all-time high in 2025, and the Trump administration drastically scaled back efforts to police the industry and stop crypto scams, while pardoning convicted fraudsters. The Trump family did even better, with President Trump making $636 million from his own meme coin last year.

Roughly two-thirds of those who bought Trump's meme coin have lost money, according to crypto data firm Nansen. As of late June, their losses totaled $3.81 billion. Another Nansen analysis finds that 85 percent of buyers in one of World Liberty's tokens are in the red.