Finance

The Ledger · every scheme, with a dollar on it

The scorekeepers’ own family-wide totals — cross-checks, never addends: The New Yorker's made-because-of-office count: $3.4B · Forbes' family-wide mark: $10B · The Oversight Democrats' realized tracker: $2.2B.

Crypto

• $635MrealizedThe $TRUMP coin — Licensing income on his own June 2026 disclosure, by NBC's tally. Fortune counts about a million holders who lost a collective $3.8B. (NBC News, Jun 2026)
• $550MraisedWLFI token sales — The figure on his own disclosure; the family entity is entitled to 75% of net token revenue, per the venture's own terms. (Time, Jun 2026)
• $500MraisedThe 49% stake sale — Sold to a vehicle backed by the UAE's national security adviser, signed four days before the inauguration, secret until the Journal found it; $187M of the first installment went to family LLCs. (WSJ via CNBC, Jan 2025)
• $2.0BraisedAbu Dhabi's $2B, settled in the family stablecoin — MGX's Binance investment, announced 13 days before USD1 publicly existed; the float parks in family-controlled reserves. Binance's founder was pardoned that October — sequence, dated. (Bloomberg, May 2025)
• $548MpaperEric's American Bitcoin stake — Bloomberg's debut-day mark, September 2025 — down about 70% by December, said so. The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve order was signed while the sons built the mine. (Bloomberg, Sep 2025)

Contracts

• $5.9BcontractSpaceX, national-security launch — The Space Force's own anticipated five-year value, 28 missions. Musk's year-end filings showed $290M+ spent electing the president. (US Space Force, Apr 2025)
• $6.5BcontractSpaceX, the Golden Dome space layer — Two awards in May 2026 — $4.16B for interceptor satellites, $2.29B for the data backbone — inside a program the president priced at $175B. (Bloomberg, May 2026)
• $10BcontractPalantir, the Army enterprise deal — "Up to $10 billion" over a decade, consolidating 75 contracts — a ceiling, not obligations, said so. (CNBC, Aug 2025)
• $30McontractPalantir, ImmigrationOS — A no-bid modification per ICE's own justification documents; a second $30M award followed in September. (The Register, Apr 2025)
• $2.1BcontractGEO Group, fiscal 2025 ICE obligations — OpenSecrets' tally of USAspending. The company's PAC gave $1M to the super PAC and $500K to the inaugural; $1.4M more followed the new contracts. (OpenSecrets, Mar 2026)
• $325McontractCoreCivic, four idle prisons reopened — The company's own annualized figure in its SEC annual report — 6,353 beds. It gave $500K to the inaugural fund. (CoreCivic via SEC, Feb 2026)
• $1.3BcontractFort Bliss, the 5,000-bed camp — Awarded to a Virginia firm headquartered at its owner's house, prior federal work under $16M; terminated after 60-plus detention-standard violations. (ProPublica, Jul 2025)
• $245McontractThe Everglades camp, state contracts — AP's tally of signed Florida contracts — state money, not federal, said so. The lead vendor's owners gave $1.9M to the governor's committees. (AP, Jul 2025)

Merch

• $4.7MrealizedThe watches — His own disclosure, via Fortune — the line includes the $100,000 tourbillon. (Fortune, Jun 2026)
• $3.0MrealizedThe books — Three titles on the disclosure, roughly $3M in royalties. (Fortune, Jun 2026)
• $0.3MrealizedThe bible, the sneakers, the fragrance, the guitar — The disclosure's own lines: bible $208,486; sneakers and fragrances $67,634; guitar $35,920. The $60 bible's print run traced to China. (Fortune, Jun 2026)

Venue

• $500MrealizedThe clubs, revenue while in office — His own disclosure: $500M-plus from golf and resorts, Mar-a-Lago at $77M — up half again from 2024, with initiation now $1M. Gross revenue of businesses he already owned; the jump is the story. (Time, Jun 2026)
• $2.0MtaxpayerThe Secret Service, buying at the clubs — Federal procurement around Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster — paid to vendors for his protection at his own properties, not to him; the smallest and softest row here, said so. (Newsweek, Jun 2025)

Settlements

• $90MrealizedThe media settlements — ABC $15M, Meta $25M, X about $10M, Paramount $16M, YouTube $24.5M — each to his library or foundation, per the companies' own terms; his disclosure lists $80M-plus received. (CNBC, Sep 2025)

Pardons

• $1.8MraisedTrevor Milton — FEC-recorded donations, October 2024; the pardon came March 2025 and mooted the $680M restitution prosecutors sought. Sequence, dated; Milton denies a connection. (CNBC, Mar 2025)
• $1.0MraisedPaul Walczak — His mother attended the $1M-a-head candlelight dinner; the pardon followed within weeks, voiding $4.4M in restitution. Sequence, dated. (NYT via The Hill, Apr 2025)

Other

• $52MrealizedLicensing the name abroad — The disclosure's own line for the overseas deals — Vietnam, the Gulf, Serbia. The billion-dollar project values are not his fee; the $52M is. (Time, Jun 2026)
• $307MtaxpayerThe ballroom, taxpayer share — Clark Construction's internal estimate per the Post: $600M total, $307M public — $155M Secret Service, $149M military office. The White House disputes it; contractor records show it. (Washington Post, Jun 2026)
• $400MrealizedThe Qatar 747 — The widely cited market estimate of the gift, in kind rather than cash, pledged onward to his library after the term. (Forbes, Jul 2025)
• $934MtaxpayerThe retrofit, from the nuclear budget — A reported transfer out of the Sentinel ICBM program toward the jet's conversion; the retrofit cost itself is classified, and the Air Force told Congress "under $400M." (Stars and Stripes, Aug 2025)
• $239MraisedThe inaugural fund — The FEC filing: a record $245M gross, $161M of it corporate, 130-plus seven-figure gifts. Where the surplus goes, the committee has not said. (CNN, Apr 2025)
• $1.5BraisedAffinity Partners, the new Gulf money — Qatar's QIA and Abu Dhabi's Lunate, committed weeks after the election — a month before the inauguration, said so — atop the Saudi $2B. (Bloomberg, Dec 2024)
• $2.0Braised1789 Capital — Don Jr's fund, $200M to $2B in the first year in office, by the firm's own figures; its portfolio has "scored billions in federal funding." (Fox Business, Dec 2025)
• $1.4BpaperThe Forbes mark — The 2026 billionaires-list gain, to $6.5B — the paper number that contains the realized crypto cash, which is why it tallies alone. (Forbes, Mar 2026)

Family

• $150MpaperBarron's World Liberty cut — Forbes' estimate, openly assuming the sons split the family's token cut three ways — a college student out-earning the First Lady, said with Forbes' name on it. (Forbes, Oct 2025)
• $65MrealizedMelania's coin entity, MKT World — The FT's on-chain count of what her Delaware entity withdrew from the $MELANIA launch; her personal share was never clarified, so the entity gets the row. (FT via CryptoSlate, May 2025)
• $6.0MrealizedMelania's NFTs — Her own disclosure: $6.0M in 2025 — a 28-fold jump from the year before she was First Lady again. (Fortune, Jul 2026)
• $11MrealizedMelania's documentary — Received in 2025 per her own disclosure, against a reported ~$28M share of Amazon's $40M license — pitched to Bezos over dinner at Mar-a-Lago. (Fortune, Jul 2026)
• $220MraisedAmerican Bitcoin's pre-listing raise — Into the sons' mining venture ahead of the merger — the company's raise, distinct from Eric's stake mark above. (Fortune, Jun 2025)
• $12MpaperDominari, both sons — A million advisory shares each at a Trump Tower-headquartered penny firm — $5.8M apiece at the April close, per the SEC filing; the stock had spiked 84% on their appointment. (Forbes, Apr 2025)
• $4.0MpaperDon Jr's GrabAGun seat — Bloomberg's mark at the NYSE debut of the online gun retailer, ticker PEW — worth $4M even after dropping a quarter on day one. (Bloomberg, Jul 2025)
• $2.8MpaperDon Jr's drone-maker shares — Award shares for joining Unusual Machines' board; the stock soared on his appointment, defense contracts followed, and it popped again when the White House tariffed imported drones. (Forbes, Oct 2025)
• $0.3MpaperDon Jr's Kalshi grant — The FT's "people familiar": free shares at a sub-$2B valuation from the prediction market the CFTC regulates — now valued at $22B, the free grant a windfall in waiting. (FT via Benzinga, Jun 2026)

Five tallies, never one: adding paper gains to realized cash is how the schemes count, not how we do. Every amount names whose figure it is — a disclosure, a filing, an estimate with an estimator attached. Ledger audited 24 August 2026.