Donald WAS a Businessman….
NOT a Politician …
He’s ALWAYS been about the Money….
President Trump’s $2.2 billion in personal earnings during his presidency has been met largely with silence from his MAGA base, which has been increasingly willing to revolt against policies they view as an abandonment of his promises to put everyday Americans first.
Far-right members of Congress, prominent media pundits and grass-roots activists have criticized Mr. Trump’s war with Iran and openly broken ranks to demand the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. They have accused him of prioritizing his own interests over the needs of the voters who elected him to office.
But few far-right voices aligned with Mr. Trump have criticized him over the scale of his personal haul, reported this week, or the conflict inherent in his status as a major cryptocurrency industry operator and its top policymaker.
Some described his earnings as a validation of the business acumen they have long admired in him.
“Nobody who voted for Donald Trump — a guy with skyscrapers with his name on it, with a plane that has his name on it — is suspect of him making money,” Joe Borelli, the former New York City Council Republican leader and managing director of Chartwell Strategy Group, a lobbying firm, told CNN. “He made his whole career talking about how much money he makes.”…
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Kelley Koch, chair of an Iowa group called MAGA Nation, said Mr. Trump’s earnings were proof of his ability to navigate the complicated new frontier of digital finance.
“We live in a free country — capitalism,” Ms. Koch said. “He’s extremely smart. He’s a businessman. My kids follow Bitcoin, Polymarket, Kalshi, all of this new tech stuff. If you don’t, you’re going to be left behind.”
Democrats, however, seized on the financial disclosures to start a campaign accusing Mr. Trump of corruption, looking to draw contrast between his wealth and the economic reality experienced by most Americans….
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While most Republican officials remained silent on the topic on Thursday, Republicans who have become alienated from Mr. Trump said the revelations from his financial gains validated their belief that he had abandoned his populist platform.
Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has formally broken with the Republican Party, said Mr. Trump’s personal enrichment was further proof that MAGA voters needed to abandon the G.O.P.
“The GOP is a disaster,” she wrote on X. “The Republican Party hijacked MAGA, pretended to be America First and MAHA, and then sold us all out. Then Trump rubber stamped the entire con job while taking checks from literally everyone.”….
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As President Trump took in a staggering haul from his cryptocurrency and real estate empire last year, earnings for the vice president and first lady also sharply increased, federal disclosures show.
However, each earned a fraction of the minimum $2.2 billion that Mr. Trump reaped.
All told, Mr. Vance earned between $1.4 million and $7.4 million in 2025, including his investment income. That was up from a range of roughly $213,000 to $1.3 million the prior year, though the form does not reflect his salary as a U.S. senator.
The bulk of Mr. Vance’s income came from royalties and advances associated with his autobiography, “Hillbilly Elegy,” published in 2016. He earned between about $1.2 million and $5.2 million from the book, compared with less than $100,000 in 2024.
The financial disclosure indicates that Mr. Vance sold his stake in a fund called Rise of the Rest, which brought him at least $100,000. Mr. Vance helped launch the investment fund in 2017 with AOL co-founder Steve Case at the venture firm Revolution….
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The form does not show any income for Mr. Vance’s wife, Usha. She stepped down from her job at a law firm during the 2024 campaign.
The income of the first lady, Melania Trump, surpassed that of the vice president, with her business earnings totaling between roughly $17.3 and $18.2 million last year. She took in less than $1 million in 2024, federal disclosures show.
The bulk of her revenue came from a $10.7 million licensing agreement related to the “Melania” movie, which was acquired and promoted by Amazon. The company’s founder, Jeff Bezos, has multiple business interests that could be affected by administration policies. Last year, Amazon agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit claiming that it tricked customers to sign up for its Prime membership program.
The first lady also earned $6 million from sales of her memecoinand roughly $500,000 from the publication of her autobiography, “Melania.”…
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