Donald Trump is making money while serving as president.

Posted by The Jimmy Dore Show, Aug 3, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

Polygraph verdictTrue

Sources: 4 support1 context
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 90%

The Jimmy Dore ShowAug 3, 2026

Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources (PolitiFact, AP-NORC, Reuters, NYT) report that Trump's 2025 financial disclosure showed at least $2.2 billion in income while he was president, mostly from crypto ventures, so the claim that he is making money as president holds as of 2026-08-03.

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What was said

… Trump is unfit to be president, but no president is really fit to be president. You can't be a good person and be president, so he doesn't serve the people. None of them do. He's corrupt as hell. They all are. He is extraordinarily corrupt. I think that that he we're seeing new levels of corruption with Donald Trump and all of the backroom deals and the backdoor deals and all the money he's making somehow as president. All of that stuff is crazy. So Alex Jones is correct, and if we lived in the same world well, if we lived in the same world, Donald Trump would have never become president. …

The Jimmy Dore Show · Aug 3, 2026· from the transcriptPost →

What we found

Supports. Trump's 2025 financial disclosure shows at least $2.2 billion in income, up from $622 million in 2024, with about $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency revenue, according to PolitiFact and the New York Times analysis.[1][4]

Supports. Reuters reports that Trump's companies received almost $800 million from World Liberty Financial, and Trump said on July 1 that he profits because the stock market is up.[2]

Supports. An AP-NORC poll reports that about 6 in 10 Americans believe Trump is profiting from the presidency in unethical or illegal ways, which describes public perception rather than adding evidence of the income itself.[3]

Context. Trump's aides say he has not taken a salary, which would offset only about $400,000 a year against the multi-billion-dollar income, so the offset does not undercut the claim.[5]