Trump's Grift Reaches Astronomical Heights-- And You're Paying For It

His 927-page financial disclosure shows a stunning portfolio of grifts and scams that have netted him and his family billions, while Americans struggle to get by.

Trump’s 2025 financial disclosures just dropped, the big reveal is that he’s made over $2 billion off the presidency so far in his second term, with $1.4 billion of it coming from cryptocurrency alone. The document was 927 pages long.

For comparison, Biden’s final financial disclosure was - wait for it - 11 pages.

But, let’s say, hypothetically, you wanted to make the argument that Trump’s a businessman. Remember when he said, “My whole life I’ve been greedy greedy greedy, I’ve grabbed all the money I could. But now I want to be greedy for the United States”? This is simply what Trump does— and now he’s doing it for America. Not quite. The reality is that his greed is still limited to just one man. In 2024, his total revenue was $622 million. In 2025, that ballooned to $2.2 billion. Being the President is the business, man.

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In actuality, what it is is a grift. This man doesn’t build things. This revenue comes from slapping his name on things, and letting other people do the work. The Trump golf courses. Trump hotels. The memecoin. Trump bibles. Trump watches. These are just glorified licensing deals— and not even good ones. Need proof? When was the last time you flew on Trump Airlines?

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But this isn’t just in poor taste, because a lot of these deals could also fall into the category of “national security risk.” Trump is licensing his name to properties in countries where the U.S. has foreign policy interests, places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. If he’s personally pocketing money from these countries, the relationship with them benefits his personal interest, not the best interest of the U.S.

And those countries have also pumped money into Trump’s crypto business, raising yet another conflict of interest. Trump’s crypto operation is maybe one of his most egregious “get rich quick” schemes, if only because he profited at the massive expense of regular people. Trump launched the $TRUMP memecoin ahead of his inauguration, conning legions of his followers into investing. While Trump made over $600 million off the deal, hundreds of thousands of his loyal fans lost catastrophic amounts of money.

The metaphor here is almost too perfect to describe the way Trump regards his followers. They’re suckers. He’s willing to bleed them dry to enrich himself and give nothing in return. Because the financial interests of regular people aren’t of interest to him. In fact, they bore him.

Case in point: he’s refusing to sign a landmark bipartisan bill to alleviate the country’s crippling housing shortage because it’s “a yawn.” I’m not making this up. Trump looks at Americans struggling to keep a roof over their heads the same way I do at an entire 8-episode Netflix documentary I half-watched while doing my laundry. That’s how little he cares about you.

Congress managed to do the impossible in passing a bipartisan housing bill that would actually deliver on Trump’s own promise to make life better for Americans. But Trump cancelled the signing ceremony at the last minute, preferring to hold it hostage in exchange for passing the SAVE America Act, which takes a hatchet to what’s left of voting rights. He’s throwing away a bill that has universal support from both sides of the aisle in favor of pushing through his deeply unpopular pet project that has languished for months and stands no chance of becoming law.

Every decision he makes as president is a calculation of self-interest. Whether it’s setting up a cryptocurrency scam or launching a war of choice against Iran, he’s not thinking of anyone but himself.