A lengthy investigation from The New Yorker estimates Trump and his family will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, much of it from deals, transactions, and investments that almost certainly wouldn’t have happened if he’d never been president.
Archive article: https://archive.is/L6luo
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number (where the daily beast got the story from)
Quite the rollercoaster.
According to the long and detailed list, about half of it is cryptocurrency stuff. WTF.
Makes sense, since that’s literally what it was invented for.
They may SAY a lot of florid shit about independence from corrupt institutions and real value, but in reality, rich people wanted money that isn’t regulated or taxed like real money to make it even easier to further enrich themselves without giving anything back to the people who suffer from their excesses.