We pulled all of the data off of Part 2 (“Filer’s Employment Assets & Income and Retirement Accounts”) of all of the financial disclosures filed by Donald Trump every year since 2015—except 2022, the only year he has not been required to file such a disclosure. These filings cover the period from roughly January 2014 to December 2025. The initial cleaning and standardization for this report follows the methodology discussed in CREW’s first report on Trump’s foreign property income. All of the totals in this report are either the low number in a range or an exact total, depending on how it was reported in the disclosure. As such, the actual totals could be higher. 

Since this report is focused on how President Trump has used the presidency for his own financial benefit, there are a number of different sources of income that are excluded. They collectively make up a small percentage of Trump’s overall income over the years. The list is as follows: 

  • Pensions: Over the years, Trump has reported more than $900,000 in pension payments from the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. These payments are related to his time as a reality television host and don’t count as ways that he is using his office to increase his personal wealth as president. 
  • Royalties and salary from pre-presidency film and TV work: Trump received more than $17,000 in the form of royalties and salary from WB Studios, Entertainment Partners, 208 Productions and Universal City Studios
  • Speaking engagements: Trump was already on the speaking circuit as a celebrity during his years as a private citizen, and his only known paid speaking engagements have been out of office. Moreover, he doesn’t list the payments as being channeled through any of his companies. In all, Trump has reported more than $5.7 million in fees from speaking engagements. 
  • Legal settlements: Since announcing his third run for office, Trump has filed a slew of lawsuits demanding over $70 billion in damages. In 2025, this legal scorched earth madeTrump $86.5 million in highly dubious settlements. Despite the fact that these settlements almost certainly wouldn’t have happened if Trump wasn’t the president, the fact is that settling litigation is different than paying a business, and in all but one instance, Trump’s financial disclosure claims that proceeds of the settlements went elsewhere.  

Steps that were taken to accord revenue from unconventional sources: 

  • In the instances where the source of revenue was a book. We either included the date of publication or the date that the book was announced for sale tied to Trump because some of the books had been out before Trump was affiliated with them. For example, the Bibles affiliated with the singer Lee Greenwood were initially marketed in May of 2021, but it appears that Trump wasn’t tied to the Bibles until March of 2024. This aligns with when Trump began to report royalty payments from sales of the Bibles—in his financial disclosure covering the period that ended in August of 2024.  
  • Similarly, in the instances where the source of the revenue was a product like Trump watches, guitars, sneakers, fragrances, etc. we have looked for the earliest public promotion of these products, rather than the incorporation date of the company paying Trump for the product.  
  • The incorporation date for one pair of companies in the data is the date they were restructured, rather than when they originally incorporated. The companies DT Marks Defi LLC and DT Marks Defi Member Corp were both formed as DT Tower II LLC and DT Tower II Member Corp respectively in January of 2016. According to Trump’s financial disclosures, they never reported any revenue under those names. Then in July of 2024, the names of the two companies were changed to what they are now, and DT Marks Defi LLC became the vehicle for hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto revenue in 2025.  

For all of the incorporation dates, we used a combination of websites like OpenCorporates.com, state incorporation registries, international registries like the Companies House in the UK, and reporting archives to establish incorporation dates for all of the companies that make up Trump’s business empire, as reported in his financial disclosures. 

There are twelve companies in this report that are tied to Trump and were created in 2026. Even though his name is not on the incorporation papers, and they are too new to have been reported in a financial disclosure, they follow a naming convention that Trump has used for his foreign properties and other businesses for more than a decade. Their names also make reference to projects that the Trump Organization has publicly announced. For example, Trump has never reported a pair of companies called DT MARKS TBILISI MEMBER CORP or DT MARKS TBILISI LLC in a financial disclosure, but the “DT Marks” formulation follows a pattern found throughout his financial disclosures for other properties and businesses, and Trump Tower Tbilisi is known to be in the works in the Republic of Georgia.

Finally, Trump’s financial disclosures include a number of companies that are not new unique businesses, but distinct facets of existing holdings. For the comparisons of the most crucial time periods—from when Trump became the presumptive nominee in 2016 and 2024 to when he either left office, in the first term, or ended his first year back in office in his second term—we did not count any companies that were incorporated as part of some existing business or real estate property. Here are the companies that are being counted in a period other than when they were incorporated: 

  • 1125 South Ocean LLC 
    • Incorporated: 3-6-2018
    • Total revenue: $3,448,117
    • Details: This entity is tied to a house next to Mar-a-Lago that his company bought from his sister in 2018. Trump’s sister, Maryann Trump Barry, had owned the house since 2004. 
  • Storage 106 LLC
    • Incorporated: 1-5-2017
    • Total Revenue: $218,930
    • This company is reportedly related to storage units and condos in the Trump Parc building, which is a property Trump had owned since the 1980s. 
  • Westminster Hotel Management LLC and Westminster Hotel Manager Member Corp
    • Incorporation date: 5-17-2017
    • Total revenue: $162,417
    • Details: This was a failed attempt by the Trump’s and the Kushners to team up on a project that would never have borne the Trump name. Under the agreement, the Trumps were going to manage a hotel the Kushners had owned since the early 2000s. The collaboration was short-lived.  
  • T Express LLC and T Express Manager Member Corp 
    • Incorporation date: 3-10-2017
    • Total revenue: $1,937
    • Details: There is very little information available about what these specific entities did, but Trump’s 2019 financial disclosure describes the company as a “potential hotel deal” that was “inactive.” All of the less than $2,000 in revenue generated by the pair came from T Express LLC, which described the payments as “administrative fees.” Both companies were dissolved in December 2022, after never generating any more revenue. 
  • T Tower Retail LLC
    • Incorporation date: 2-19-2019
    • Total revenue: $10,931,853
    • Details: Trump’s financial disclosures describe the entity as a vehicle for revenue for “food & beverage and related merchandise sales” after August 2019. Based on the name and location, it appears to be related to Trump Tower, which is one of Trump’s oldest properties. 
  • T Promotions LLC
    • Incorporation date: 7-24-2017
    • Total revenue: $0 
    • Details: This appears to just be a vehicle for selling Trump gift cards.
  • F&B 40 Wall LLC and F&B 40 Wall MM Corp
    • Incorporation date: 7-19-2019
    • Total revenue: $273,315
    • Details: Trump bought the lease for his 40 Wall Street building in 1995, and this company appears to just be a vehicle for food and beverage in the building. Trump’s financial disclosure makes reference to the company in relation to catering events to a Pret-a-Manger lease, and according to the building’s website, it does, in fact, include a Pret-a-Manger. 
  • Propco 2019 LLC and Propco Holdings 2019 LLC
    • Incorporation date: 5-31-2019
    • Total revenue: $348,686
    • Details: This pair of companies is related to Trump’s St. Martin property. French paperwork ties Propco 2019 LLC to the property. Trump’s longtime aide Matthew Calamari is listed as a director. Trump originally bought the property in 2013. 
  • 555 California Service JV LLC
    • Incorporation date: 3-13-2018
    • Total revenue: $38,885
    • Details: Tied to shares in the 555 California Street building in San Francisco. Trump has held shares in the building since at least the mid 2000s. 
  • SC Pier Village Management LLC
    • Incorporation date: 12-21-2017
    • Total revenue: $0
    • Details: Tied to Pier Village property that the Kushners purchased in 2014. 
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