Trump's Family Business Keeps Expanding Even as He Serves as President

For most of the recent history of the United States, presidents worked hard to make it clear that they wouldn't profit from the presidency. While President Trump has made statements suggesting he's not profiting, his family business has continued to expand throughout his second term, and it's clear that that's led to both personal enrichment and enrichment for every member of his family.

Following news in April of 2026 that Trump's family business was expanding again, many wanted to better understand the state of the Trump business. Here's what we know.

According to reporting in The Associated Press, the Trump family's real estate business is undergoing the biggest expansion it's seen in the company's history. This comes after the family expanded into cryptocurrencies in a venture that brought in billions of dollars. Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are behind the expansion, according to the report, which involves working with businesses that also do business with the United States.

“The brothers have also joined or invested in a number of companies that aim to do business with the government their father runs,” Bernard Condon's report explains. “Last month, they struck a deal giving them stakes worth millions in an armed drone maker seeking contracts with the Pentagon and with Gulf states under attack by Iran.”

It seems clear, then, that the president's family is profiting from his presidency.

President Trump, of course, makes the same salary as all recent presidents, which is $400,000. Unlike past presidents, though, Trump is making a lot of money on top of that baseline salary. According to reporting from The New Yorker in January, Trump has now made something like $4 billion off of the presidency.

That total comes chiefly from the Trump family's various crypto ventures, which include World Liberty Financial, Binance, and American Bitcoin.

According to The New Yorker's report, the Trump family is often lending little more than its name to these ventures, a business model that Trump has used for decades in which he does very little work other than selling his brand. The difference now, of course, is that the Trump name is also the name of the presidency, and Trump's personal business dealings could be influencing American public policy.

Ultimately, though, there are few accountability mechanisms that would give the public a better sense of exactly how much money Trump has made from the presidency.

A Democratic Congress might hold hearings into Trump's business dealings, but the current Congress seems hugely uninterested in doing so.

This level of profiting from the presidency would have been completely unthinkable for most of recent American history. Part of Trump's genius, though, comes from his ability to make things that might have felt like scandals seem totally normal.

Trump has made $4 billion on the presidency, and he's only been in office for a little over a year. He and his family have plenty of time to keep making more.