As the first billionaire president of the United States, Donald Trump is nothing if not an indictment of American excess.
He’s spent over $100 million in taxpayer dollars on various golf trips, and committed millions more to gild the Oval Office in gold and dig out a massive emergency bunker under the White House’s east wing.
Those vanity projects provide the backdrop to the Trump family’s obscene pilfering in their return to power, characterized by crypto scams and government handouts to personal allies. His latest windfall, an obscene $1.4 billion earned in a single year as president, may be the most damning proof yet of just how little our elected leaders care — and how powerless the rest of us are to stop the profiteering.
New financial disclosures have revealed Trump’s massive profits for the year 2025, which is up significantly thanks to his position as president. As the New York Times notes, Trump’s total earnings the year before he returned to the White House were around $622 million.
