According to the 2025 Hurun Global Rich List and various financial disclosures, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal net worth saw significant growth over the past year (from September 2024 to September 2025), increasing from approximately $3.5 billion to $7.5 billion, a rise of over 114%, with a net increase of about $4 billion, far exceeding the initially estimated increase of $3 billion. This growth has allowed him to surpass the total wealth of former presidents like Kennedy and Washington, making him the richest president in American history.
Trump's wealth growth shows a diversified "digital + traditional" dual-drive characteristic. In the cryptocurrency field, the TRUMP coin he launched in January 2025 became the biggest driver, with a market value surpassing $7.5 billion on its first day of trading. His family holds 80% of the token's supply through two subsidiaries, and this asset alone has brought him over $22 billion in paper gains. Additionally, Trump’s cryptocurrency company, World Liberty Financial, contributed $57.7 million in revenue from token sales, and its subsidiary, American Bitcoin Corp's IPO, brought over $500 million in market value increase. However, this field is highly controversial, with the Washington Post criticizing such cryptocurrencies as essentially a "high-end Ponzi scheme," using the presidential identity for market speculation.
The traditional business sector also performed strongly. According to the presidential financial disclosure report, Trump's overseas licensing and development expenses reached $44.6 million in 2024, a surge of 5 times compared to 2023. His 53% stake in Truth Social, the social media platform, achieved an increased valuation with user growth, becoming a stable pillar of wealth. In the financial investment field, Trump completed 690 bond transactions totaling over $100 million in 8 months, covering policy-sensitive corporate bonds such as T-Mobile and Meta, as well as municipal infrastructure bonds. This "high-frequency low-risk" strategy achieved steady appreciation amid expectations of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, but also raised questions about policy benefits transfer.
It is worth noting that different institutions have significantly different estimates of Trump's wealth. The Hurun report emphasizes that his wealth has "almost doubled" to 52.5 billion yuan (approximately $7.5 billion), while he did not appear in the top 100 of Forbes' 2025 Global Billionaires List, reflecting statistical discrepancies caused by the volatility of cryptocurrency valuations. The controversy centers around the market authenticity of Trump Coin — this token reached a market capitalization that took Bitcoin 4 years to achieve in just one day, and 80% of the chips are controlled by family businesses, criticized as a "financial tool for profiting from presidential position."
From an industry comparison perspective, Trump's wealth growth rate far exceeds the average increase of 13% among global billionaires. Its growth structure also reflects a new logic of wealth in the digital age: traditional real estate (Mar-a-Lago, golf resorts) provides stable cash flow, while emerging assets such as cryptocurrencies and social media equity become the engines of explosive growth. This transformation benefits from the deregulation of cryptocurrency he promoted during his term (such as freezing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), and also relies on the continuous fermentation of his personal IP's traffic value in political controversies. However, with the risk of judicial investigation still present, whether these rapidly accumulated digital assets can withstand the test of time remains an unresolved question.
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