Trump Family Turns Presidency Into Most Lucrative Venture Yet

May 21, 2025, 9:00 PM UTC

The way Donald Trump sees it, he’s the greatest businessman to campaign for the White House.

“I’m the most successful person ever to run,” he told an Iowa reporter in 2015. “I have a Gucci store that’s worth more than Romney.”

That might have been an exaggeration, but this isn’t: A decade later, no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.

In that time, the Trump name has powered more than ...

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