Quick Read – Trump’s $1.4B 2025 crypto haul came from altcoins and branded tokens, while his NVDA and AAPL holdings also surged 45% and 42%. – MicroStrategy and Coinbase, pure Bitcoin proxies, crashed 78% and 35% as BTC slid from $88K in early 2025 to $58K in mid-2026. -…
ediction markets now give Bitcoin just a 10% chance of hitting $100,000 by year-end while pricing an 83% probability of a drop to $55,000. – A Bloomberg TV segment on July 1, 2026 with anchor Romaine Bostick surfaced a striking data point from President Trump’s latest financial disclosure filed with the Office of Government Ethics: the president reported more than $1.4 billion in crypto earnings in 2025. As Bloomberg’s reporter noted on air, “More than 1.2 billion in crypto earnings, just crossing” when the filing hit the wire
The bulk of that windfall came from smaller altcoins and Trump-branded tokens. Where The Money Actually Came From Bostick pointed out that “a lot of it was tied to some of the other smaller coins, including Trump’s own coins themselves that apparently contributed to that number.” He added the counterfactual bluntly: “If he had been invested primarily in Bitcoin, the world’s largest crypto going, he actually would not have made a lot of money. In fact, it was relatively flat last year.” Bitcoin opened 2025 near 88,742 and closed the year at 87,497.94.
The rough start to 2026 has been more punishing: BTC traded at 58,423.49 on July 1, 2026, after Polymarket downside markets at $85,000, $75,000, and $65,000 all resolved YES between December 1, 2025 and February 5, 2026. Trump’s Disclosed Tech Holdings The disclosure revealed Trump holds millions in shares of Nvidia, Apple, and Palantir. Two of the three benefited from the 2025 mega-cap AI trade.