Trump Justifies Money Made as President With Inaccurate Claims

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President Trump has wrongly attributed the $2 billion windfall he gained during his second term to a hot stock market and claimed that he was the only president to donate his salary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/us/politics/trump-money-crypto-financial-gains.html

https://archive.ph/diEvx


President Trump’s most lucrative ventures seemed to intersect directly with his administration’s policies like cryptocurrency and dealings with foreign governments.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

The $2.2 billion windfall President Trump reaped since his second term has raised questions over potential conflicts of interest and whether he has profited from public office, but Mr. Trump has dismissed any notion of impropriety.

Some of Mr. Trump’s most lucrative ventures seemed to intersect directly with his administration’s policies like cryptocurrency and dealings with foreign governments.

But, Mr. Trump has argued, his personal financial gains reflected a stock market benefiting everyone; his investments and business dealings were in a blind trust, not unlike other presidents; and unlike his predecessors, he donated his presidential salary.

Except none of those assertions are true. Here’s a fact-check.

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1. Donate his salary - the believed lie...

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