President Trump and family crypto ventures cleared more than $1 billion in 2025, according to his latest federal financial disclosure. It was the same year that Bitcoin crashed more than 50% from its $126,000 all-time high, erasing every gain retail investors captured during the post-election euphoria.
World Liberty Financial, or WLFI, Trump’s decentralized finance platform, which allows users to lend and borrow crypto assets, took in more than $500 million from token sales in 2025, according to the disclosure. A separate licensing agreement tied to the TRUMP memecoin generated another $635 million. A Reuters investigation put the Trump family’s total crypto extraction at $2.3 billion when equity monetization and stablecoin-related vehicle sales are included alongside token revenue.
Apart from WLFI, Trump-linked entities collectively control roughly 80% of the $TRUMP token supply, according to CNN and Yahoo Finance reporting. That concentration meant the licensing structure effectively routed trading fees and royalties back to Trump’s businesses while retail investors, who bought at or near the narrative peak, absorbed virtually all of the downside.
As of today, the token has lost 98% of its value since launching just before Trump’s inauguration. For more details on how these figures broke down across the Trump family’s filings, see this analysis of Trump crypto profits versus investor losses.
Hilary Allen, a law professor at American University and prominent industry critic, framed the dynamic bluntly: “They’ve given them everything they could possibly want.” On the question of legitimacy, Allen added that “the Trump family ventures have not ameliorated the perception that crypto is scammy.”
Bitcoin ATH to Bitcoin Crash: What Actually Happened
In the year following Election Day 2024, Bitcoin’s value rocketed more than 80%, reaching an ATH of $126,000 in October 2025 on the back of regulatory optimism and strong ETF inflows. The pivot was swift. Just weeks ago, BTC had fallen to under $60K, or a 52% drawdown, with investors realizing an estimated $3.2 billion in single-day losses, the largest since the FTX collapse.
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Multiple forces drove the selloff simultaneously. ETF outflows were a primary accelerant: US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $2.7 billion in a single week ending around June 5, 2026, with ten to thirteen consecutive days of net redemptions totaling $4.3 billion. The full picture of that institutional exodus is detailed in this breakdown of Bitcoin ETF outflows in June 2026.
