Donald Trump Net Worth 2026: How Crypto, Golf and Truth Social Shape His Fortune

Donald Trump’s net worth is about $6.8 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time estimate on October 15, 2026. A month earlier, the 2026 Forbes 400 (published September 15, 2026) put him at $7 billion. That was $300 million less than the year before, and it ranked him No. 245 among the richest Americans.

Donald Trump: quick facts

Net worth

$6.8 Billion

Salary / earnings

$400 Thousand per year

Source of wealth

Real estate, crypto, Trump Media

Profession

President of the United States, businessman

Nationality

American

Place of birth

Queens, New York, United States

Date of birth

June 14, 1946 (age 80)

Bloomberg tracks his fortune separately. In July 2025, Bloomberg put his net worth at about $6.4 billion, close to the $6.5 billion it estimated on Election Day 2024. It noted that crypto had added about $620 million. We could not confirm a newer Bloomberg figure.

His wealth has changed shape during his second term as the 47th President of the United States. Real estate and golf are still the base. But cryptocurrency ventures and his stake in Trump Media & Technology Group have pushed his net worth up and down by billions within months.

Donald Trump at a glance

• Net worth: about $6.8 billion (Forbes real-time, October 15, 2026); $7 billion on the 2026 Forbes 400
• Born: June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York City
• Profession: President of the United States (45th and 47th), real estate developer, businessman
• Key companies: The Trump Organization, Trump Media & Technology Group (Truth Social), World Liberty Financial
• Largest assets (Forbes, 2026): cash and liquid assets of $1.9 billion, golf and club properties of about $1.8 billion, and a Trump Media stake of about $1 billion
• Presidential salary: $400,000 a year; the White House says he does not keep it
• Spouse: Melania Trump (married 2005)
• Children: Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany and Barron

His net worth by year is charted at the end of this article.

Where Donald Trump’s money comes from

Forbes valued each piece of his fortune for its September 2026 estimate. The table below uses those figures where they exist. Other numbers are revenue reported in his federal financial disclosures, not asset values.

Source	Details	Estimate
Cash and liquid assets	Mostly built up from crypto sales since 2025	$1.9 billion (Forbes, 2026)
Golf and club properties	Mar-a-Lago, Doral and other U.S. courses	About $1.8 billion (Forbes, 2026)
Trump Media & Technology Group	Largest shareholder in the Truth Social parent (DJT)	About $1 billion (Forbes, 2026)
Licensing and management	Trump-branded towers, hotels and golf projects worldwide	$655 million (Forbes, 2026)
$TRUMP memecoin	Tokens held by Trump-linked entities	$185 million (Forbes, 2026)
World Liberty Financial tokens	WLFI governance tokens	$80 million (Forbes, 2026)
New York and other real estate	Trump Tower, 40 Wall Street and other buildings	Included in Forbes’ total
Merchandise and books	Watches, sneakers, Bibles, guitars, books	Single-digit millions a year in royalties

How his fortune changed in 2025 and 2026

Forbes calls Trump’s September 2025 estimate of $7.3 billion the highest figure it had ever given him on the Forbes 400. A year later, some of those gains had faded. In its September 15, 2026 breakdown, Forbes reported these changes over the year:

Asset	2026 value	Change over one year
Trump Media stake	$1 billion	Down $980 million
$TRUMP memecoin holdings	$185 million	Down $525 million
World Liberty tokens	$80 million	Down $260 million
Liquid assets	$1.9 billion	Up $800 million
Mar-a-Lago	$620 million	Up $160 million
Other U.S. golf courses	$705 million	Up $200 million
Trump National Doral	$365 million	Up $110 million
Licensing and management	$655 million	Up $155 million

Forbes estimated Mar-a-Lago’s annual operating profit at about $54 million, up 63%. It put profit from his American golf properties at about $110 million.

Early life

Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York. He was the fourth of five children of Fred Trump, a developer of middle-income housing in Brooklyn and Queens, and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, who was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.

He attended the New York Military Academy and spent two years at Fordham University. He then transferred to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1968.

He joined his father’s company, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which was renamed The Trump Organization in 1971. How much help he got from his father has long been debated. Trump has described a “small loan” of $1 million. In 2018, The New York Times reported that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s businesses over his lifetime. Trump’s representatives disputed the newspaper’s findings.

Manhattan developer: the 1970s and 1980s

Trump’s first big Manhattan project turned the old Commodore Hotel next to Grand Central Terminal into the Grand Hyatt. It opened in 1980, helped by a tax abatement from the city and a construction loan his father co-guaranteed.

In 1983 he completed Trump Tower, a 58-story tower on Fifth Avenue. It became his headquarters and home and remains one of his best-known assets. In 1985 he bought Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, for about $5 million plus about $3 million for its furnishings.

During the late 1980s he expanded into casinos in Atlantic City, the Plaza Hotel in New York and an airline, the Trump Shuttle. Much of that growth was financed with debt.

Bankruptcies and recovery: the 1990s and 2000s

The debt caught up with him in the early 1990s. Between 1991 and 2009, his businesses filed for six corporate bankruptcies, involving the Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza, Trump Castle, the Plaza Hotel and two later casino holding companies. These were business filings, not personal bankruptcies.

He rebuilt by putting less of his own money at risk. He bought the 70-story 40 Wall Street building in the mid-1990s, at a time when lower Manhattan office space was cheap. He also began licensing his name to buildings owned and financed by other developers. In return, the Trump Organization collected fees.

He also moved into golf. He opened Trump National Golf Club courses in New York, New Jersey and other states, and bought the Menie Estate near Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2006.

The Apprentice and the Trump brand

NBC’s The Apprentice premiered in 2004, with Trump as host. It became one of his biggest sources of cash. In 2020, The New York Times reported, based on his tax records, that the show and the licensing deals linked to it brought him about $427 million.

The show made his name a consumer brand. It was licensed widely, including to a for-profit education venture, Trump University. In 2016 Trump agreed to a $25 million settlement with former students of Trump University and did not admit wrongdoing.

First presidency and the years between terms

Trump was elected the 45th president in 2016 and served from 2017 to 2021. He handed day-to-day control of the Trump Organization to his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, but he kept his ownership.

His fortune shrank during that term. Forbes valued him at $4.5 billion in 2015 and $3.7 billion in 2016. By September 2021 the estimate was $2.5 billion, and he dropped off the Forbes 400 for the first time in about 25 years. Forbes linked the decline mostly to the pandemic’s hit to hotels, offices and retail space.

After leaving office, he started new businesses. Trump Media & Technology Group launched Truth Social in 2022. He also sold digital trading cards (NFTs) starting in December 2022, along with licensed books, Bibles, sneakers and watches.

Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT)

Trump Media went public in March 2024 through a merger with a blank-check company and trades on Nasdaq as DJT. Trump is its largest shareholder. His 2025 financial disclosure showed the shares held in a revocable trust overseen by Donald Trump Jr.

Because the stake is so large, DJT’s share price has been the biggest single driver of his net worth:

• March 2024: soon after the listing, Forbes valued the stake at more than $4 billion at its peak, briefly pushing his net worth above $8 billion.
• December 18, 2025: Trump Media announced an all-stock merger with fusion energy company TAE Technologies, valued at about $6 billion. DJT shares rose about 33% that day, according to CNBC.
• May 1, 2026: the stock closed at $9.39, down about 76% from $38.94 on March 1, 2024.
• September 2026: Forbes valued the stake at about $1 billion, down $980 million in a year, after the shares fell about 50%.

Crypto ventures

Crypto has become Trump’s fastest-growing source of income. According to The New York Times’ analysis of his disclosures, crypto brought in at least $1.4 billion of his roughly $2.2 billion in reported 2025 revenue. These are revenue figures, not profit or net worth.

World Liberty Financial

World Liberty Financial launched in September 2024 as a crypto platform promoted by Trump and his sons. A Trump family entity is entitled to about 75% of net proceeds from sales of its WLFI governance tokens.

• 2024: Trump reported $57.4 million from World Liberty on his June 2025 disclosure.
• 2025: his June 2026 disclosure listed more than $500 million from WLFI token sales and about $65 million from equity sales in the company that controls the platform, according to CBS News.
• Total: Forbes estimates Trump has taken in nearly $800 million from roughly $2 billion of World Liberty token and equity sales.

USD1 stablecoin

World Liberty launched a dollar-backed stablecoin, USD1, in March 2025. In May 2025, the Abu Dhabi-backed investment firm MGX said it would use $2 billion in USD1 to invest in the crypto exchange Binance. His 2026 disclosure listed $196 million from equity sales in a related entity, Stablecoin Holdco.

$TRUMP memecoin

The $TRUMP memecoin launched on January 17, 2025, three days before his second inauguration. It briefly traded above $70, then fell sharply. His 2026 disclosure listed about $635 million in revenue linked to the coin. Forbes estimates his memecoin proceeds at more than $600 million, and it valued his remaining coins at $185 million in September 2026.

Family crypto deals

His sons run their own crypto businesses. Eric Trump co-founded the bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin, which began trading publicly in 2025. Donald Jr. and Eric are both involved in World Liberty. Forbes counts only the president’s own share of these ventures in his net worth.

Conflict-of-interest questions

Government ethics experts and Democratic lawmakers have argued that crypto deals involving foreign investors, such as the MGX transaction, create conflicts of interest for a sitting president. The White House rejects that view. In June 2026, spokesperson Anna Kelly said “there are no conflicts of interest” and that neither the president nor his family “has ever been involved in conflicts of interest.” Trump has said that he is not involved in running his personal finances.

Financial disclosures

As president, Trump files an annual report with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE). These reports list assets and income in broad ranges, so they do not give an exact net worth.

2025 disclosure (covering 2024)

Released in June 2025, this 234-page report showed assets of at least $1.6 billion, according to a Reuters count. The New York Times calculated his 2024 income at about $622 million. Items included:

• World Liberty Financial: $57.4 million
• Save America coffee table book: $3 million in royalties
• Trump Watches: $2.8 million
• Trump sneakers and fragrances: $2.5 million
• “God Bless the USA” Bible: about $1.3 million
• NFT licensing: about $1.16 million
• “45” guitars: about $1.06 million

2026 disclosure (covering 2025)

Released on June 30, 2026, the much larger report listed about $2.2 billion in income. Highlights reported by CBS News and others:

• Crypto: about $1.4 billion in total, led by $635 million tied to $TRUMP
• Trump National Doral: $121.8 million
• Mar-a-Lago: $77.4 million
• Turnberry, Scotland: about £23.6 million in hotel and golf revenue (The Scotsman)
• Trump International, Aberdeen: about £6.7 million (The Scotsman)
• Trump Watches: $4.7 million
• Books: about $1.9 million from Save America, plus smaller sums from other titles

The report also listed legal settlements paid by media and tech companies after lawsuits Trump brought: Meta ($24.5 million), YouTube ($22 million), ABC ($16 million), CBS ($16 million) and X ($8 million). According to CBS News, most of that money went to his future presidential library or the Trust for the National Mall, not to him personally.

Real estate and golf

Real estate is the oldest part of his fortune. Forbes valued his golf and club portfolio at about $1.8 billion in 2026, roughly $500 million more than a year earlier.

Property	Year acquired or opened	Reported price or value
Trump Tower, Manhattan	Completed 1983	Developed by Trump
Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach	1985	About $5 million plus $3 million for furnishings; Forbes value $620 million (2026)
40 Wall Street, Manhattan	Mid-1990s	Bought when downtown office values were low
Menie Estate (Trump International Scotland), Aberdeen	Bought 2006; first course opened 2012	Second course, the MacLeod, opened in 2025
Trump National Doral, Miami	2012	About $150 million purchase; Forbes value $365 million (2026)
Trump Turnberry, Scotland	2014	About £23.6 million in 2025 revenue

He also owns or operates golf clubs in Bedminster, New Jersey; Jupiter, Florida; Westchester, New York; and other states, plus a course in Ireland. His 2026 disclosure showed Jupiter and Bedminster each bringing in more than $30 million in 2025.

Licensing deals worldwide

Most new Trump-branded towers are licensing deals. Other developers own and finance the buildings and pay the Trump Organization to use the name. Bloomberg counted more than $10 billion in projects using the Trump name as of 2025, including:

• A golf club and villas in Qatar (about $3 billion project value)
• A Vietnam golf and resort complex ($1.5 billion)
• Trump International Hotel & Tower Dubai (more than $544 million)
• Trump Tower Jeddah ($533 million) and a project in Riyadh (about $530 million)
• Trump International Oman ($500 million)

These are total project values, not money paid to Trump. Forbes valued his licensing and management business at $655 million in 2026.

Legal judgments and their financial effect

New York civil fraud case

In February 2024, Justice Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump and his company had inflated asset values. He ordered about $355 million in disgorgement plus interest, which brought the total to more than $500 million. Trump posted a $175 million bond in April 2024 while he appealed.

On August 21, 2025, a New York appeals court threw out the monetary penalty as excessive but upheld the finding of liability and the non-financial penalties. New York Attorney General Letitia James appealed to the state’s highest court in September 2025. As of our latest review, no final ruling on that appeal had been reported.

E. Jean Carroll judgments

• $5 million verdict (2023): the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal in June 2026 and denied a rehearing on August 17, 2026. Carroll received about $5.6 million with interest in July 2026, according to Forbes.
• $83.3 million verdict (2024): a federal appeals court upheld it in September 2025. Trump has asked the Supreme Court to review it, and as of August 2026 the case remained under appeal.

Trump denies Carroll’s allegations.

Presidential salary

The U.S. president is paid $400,000 a year. During his first term, Trump donated his quarterly paychecks to federal agencies such as the National Park Service. The White House says he is again not keeping the salary in his second term. PolitiFact noted in October 2026 that these donations have not always been documented publicly.

Personal life

Trump has been married three times:

• Ivana Zelníčková (1977–1990): mother of Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric
• Marla Maples (1993–1999): mother of Tiffany
• Melania Knauss (married 2005): mother of Barron

Donald Jr. and Eric run the Trump Organization day to day, and both are involved in World Liberty Financial. Melania Trump has her own income. Her 2026 disclosure listed more than $10.7 million net from a license tied to the Amazon film Melania, plus earnings from her memoir and NFTs.

Philanthropy

Trump has pointed to his donated presidential salary as his main recent giving. His charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, was dissolved in 2018 after a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General. In 2019 a judge ordered him to pay $2 million to other charities as part of that case.

How Donald Trump compares

Trump is one of several billionaires in American politics, but he is not the richest.

Person	Estimated net worth	Main source
Michael Bloomberg	$94.9 billion	Bloomberg L.P. financial data company
Donald Trump	$7 billion	Real estate, crypto, Trump Media
JB Pritzker	$4.2 billion	Hyatt family fortune and investments

Figures for Bloomberg and Trump come from the 2026 Forbes 400 (September 15, 2026). Pritzker’s figure comes from Forbes’ 2026 billionaires list, as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times. For comparison, see our profiles of former president Joe Biden and former Trump adviser Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest people. Browse more profiles on our politicians page.

Frequently asked questions

How much is Donald Trump worth?

About $6.8 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time estimate on October 15, 2026. The 2026 Forbes 400 listed him at $7 billion.

Is Donald Trump richer now than before his second term?

Yes. Forbes said in September 2026 that he was about $2.7 billion richer than when he won the 2024 election, mainly because of crypto.

How much money has Trump made from crypto?

His 2025 income included about $1.4 billion from crypto ventures, according to The New York Times’ analysis of his June 2026 disclosure. Most came from the $TRUMP memecoin and World Liberty Financial.

How much is Trump’s Truth Social stake worth?

Forbes valued his Trump Media & Technology Group stake at about $1 billion in September 2026, down from more than $4 billion at its 2024 peak.

Does Trump take a presidential salary?

The White House says he does not keep his $400,000 salary. In his first term he donated it to federal agencies.

Did Trump have to pay the New York civil fraud penalty?

No. In August 2025 a New York appeals court threw out the penalty of more than $500 million but upheld the liability finding. The state attorney general has appealed that ruling.

Sources: Forbes (real-time estimate October 15, 2026; Forbes 400 lists 2015–2026), Bloomberg, U.S. Office of Government Ethics disclosures (2025 and 2026) as reported by CBS News, NBC News, Axios and The New York Times, The Scotsman, CNBC, PolitiFact, Chicago Sun-Times, Wikipedia. All net worth figures are estimates.