Still, Trump has taken a series of actions in the White House that have benefited his companies, as well as companies linked to other senior administration officials.

Last July, Trump signed legislation supporting stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency, just four months after World Liberty Financial launched its own digital currency company. The firm earned Trump at least $500 million in 2025, according to its financial disclosure report.

Last October, Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of cryptocurrency company Binance.

The move came as Trump praised the crypto industry in his first months back in office, after previously dismissing it as a “disaster waiting to happen.”

Trump’s family business and some close associates have profited from other industries beyond cryptocurrencies since he returned to the White House.

Last year, Trump reached a deal with the president of Kazakhstan that gave an American company access to a major critical minerals project in the country, according to a New York Times report.

Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr later acquired a minority stake in a company involved in the mining project. The investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, run by the sons of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, also worked on the agreement.

On Wednesday, Trump attributed his gains in office to stock market gains and claimed he was not involved in his family’s businesses.

“I don’t get involved in my personal affairs [finances]”We have funds that manage my money,” Trump told reporters. “I made a lot of money before I was president, they invest my money and I don’t talk to them.”

Ethics watchdogs argued that Trump’s profits from cryptocurrencies in particular were problematic.

“Of course it’s a conflict of interest,” Richard Painter, former White House chief ethics lawyer during the George W. Bush administration, told the BBC.

“It’s a very, very worrying situation for the American people to see their president making so much money.”