Here’s How Much The Trump Kids Have Made Because Of The Presidency

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President Trump just had the most lucrative year of his life. But percentage-wise, members of his immediate family, including sons Eric, Don Jr. and Barron, did even better.  Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/22/heres-how-much-the-trump-kids-have-made-because-of-the-presidency/  Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com  Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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00:00Today on Forbes, here's how much the Trump kids have made because of the presidency.

00:06President Trump's dad, Fred, got rich building 20,000 apartments across New York City.

00:13Donald joined Fred's firm in 1968. From the outset, he was ambitious and ruthless.

00:19His first quote in the inaugural Forbes 400 from 1982, when he and his father were listed together,

00:25worth a combined $200 million, $660 million in today's money, was, quote,

00:32Man is the most vicious of all animals, and life is a series of battles ending in victory or defeat.

00:39Decades later, with Trump in the White House, his family is monetizing those killer instincts

00:44in novel fashion. It's not that the Trumps are the first to leverage the presidency for profit.

00:50Jimmy Carter's brother, Billy, promoted Billy Beer and took money from the Libyans.

00:56Richard Nixon had his brother Donald's phone tapped amid concerns about business dealings.

01:01Hunter Biden received more than $1 million for artwork of questionable quality.

01:07But no first family has used the office to make as much money as Donald Trump's.

01:12Crypto is the big driver, but additional funds have come from advising right-wing companies in America

01:17and partnering with cash-rich firms overseas, especially in the Middle East.

01:22Family members who never had significant fortunes of their own, Eric, Don Jr., Barron, and Melania,

01:30have accumulated tens, then hundreds of millions of dollars.

01:34All told, the family, including the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner,

01:38is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year's election.

01:44As we first told you last week, Jared Kushner, who was married to first daughter Ivanka Trump,

01:51is now a billionaire.

01:53In January 2021, the same month his father-in-law first left the White House,

01:57Kushner founded the private equity firm Affinity Partners.

02:01Leveraging the relationships he built as a presidential advisor,

02:05Kushner raised $4.6 billion from backers in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE,

02:11and has invested more than $2 billion in 22 companies.

02:16The firm is valued at an estimated $215 million.

02:20Kushner is now a billionaire thanks in part to Affinity's war chest,

02:24plus his 20% stake, worth $560 million, in his family's real estate firm, Kushner Companies.

02:31Ivanka's net worth is $100 million.

02:34It helps that the couple's home on Miami's elite Indian Creek Island,

02:38where neighbors include Jeff Bezos, has more than tripled in value to an estimated $105 million

02:44since they bought it in 2020.

02:48The president's second son, Eric, is now worth $750 million.

02:53He was worth an estimated $40 million last year.

02:58Eric Trump has made more money on crypto than any of his siblings.

03:01Most of it comes from American Bitcoin, a crypto mining venture he co-founded in March

03:07that went public in early September, briefly making him a billionaire.

03:11Some of the hype has faded, but Eric's 7.5% stake is still worth about $500 million.

03:18He also got an estimated 10% cut of World Liberty Financial token sales.

03:23With his older brother, Don Jr., he traveled to the Middle East in May,

03:28where he signed a deal to license the family name on a golf resort in Qatar,

03:32among other new ventures.

03:34As of July 2024, the brothers apparently split 20% of the profits from certain licensing deals.

03:41The president's first son, Don Jr., is worth $500 million.

03:46He holds a smaller stake in American Bitcoin and serves as a co-founder of World Liberty.

03:51He and Eric set up a special-purpose acquisition corporation in August

03:55that's on the hunt for merger targets in tech, healthcare, or logistics.

04:00He's also a big player in the so-called anti-woke economy,

04:04partnering with self-described anti-ESG venture firm 1789 Capital

04:08and holding board seats at anti-woke, anti-abortion online marketplace Public Square,

04:14online firearm retailer Grab a Gun, and Truth Social's parent company.

04:18His fortune is up from an estimated $50 million last year.

04:23The president's youngest child, Barron, is worth $150 million.

04:28He was all-in on crypto long before his dad and helped coax the family to co-found World Liberty Financial.

04:35So far, the 19-year-old NYU sophomore has pocketed an estimated $80 million from token sales

04:42and still holds an estimated $2.3 billion locked-up tokens,

04:46which Forbes heavily discounts because they can't yet be traded.

04:50If the current price hangs on long enough,

04:52he might be able to dump them for $525 million when they unlock.

04:56For full coverage, check out Dan Alexander and Kyle Kahn Mullins' piece on Forbes.com.

05:04This is Kieran Meadows from Forbes.

05:06Thanks for tuning in.

05:08Thank you for tuning in.

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