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Nearly two out of three Americans think President Trump shouldn’t be cashing in on crypto while sitting in the Oval Office. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on August 19 found that 63% of respondents consider it inappropriate for Trump and his family to profit from crypto ventures after his return to power in January 2025. Only 32% said those profits were appropriate.
The numbers land at a moment when the scale of the Trump family’s crypto earnings is becoming impossible to ignore. Financial disclosures filed with the US Office of Government Ethics show the family reported more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto-related enterprises as of June 30, 2026. Total estimated profits from all Trump-linked crypto projects have climbed to at least $2.3 billion.
Where the money comes from
Two ventures account for the bulk of the haul. World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance platform co-founded by Trump and his sons, generated nearly $800 million in reported crypto income. More than $520 million of that came from governance token sales alone.
The other major revenue stream is the $TRUMP meme coin, which launched on the Solana blockchain around Inauguration Day in January 2025. That token has been credited with roughly $635 million in family profits since its debut, despite the wild price swings that tend to define meme coins.
For context, $2.3 billion is more than the annual GDP of several small nations. It’s also a figure that, according to blockchain and regulatory analyses, roughly matches approximate investor losses tied to price declines in Trump-affiliated crypto assets. In other words, the family’s gains appear to have come largely at the expense of retail buyers who got in late or held through drawdowns.
The conflict-of-interest question
The poll data puts a number on something that crypto critics and ethics watchdogs have been arguing for over a year: that a sitting president profiting from an asset class he has the power to regulate creates a textbook conflict of interest.
Trump’s administration has taken a notably friendly posture toward digital assets since he took office. Executive orders, regulatory appointments, and legislative signals have all tilted in crypto’s favor.
The 63% disapproval figure cuts across typical partisan lines more than many crypto-related polls. While crypto adoption has historically skewed toward younger, male, and libertarian-leaning demographics, concerns about presidential profiteering appear to resonate more broadly. The gap between the 63% who disapprove and the 32% who approve leaves only a thin sliver of undecided respondents.
It’s worth noting what the poll doesn’t measure: whether respondents object to Trump being involved in crypto at all, or specifically to doing so while holding office. That distinction matters. Plenty of Americans who are fine with crypto in the abstract still draw a line when the person setting the regulatory agenda is also the person collecting the checks.
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