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July/August 2025

10 ways to enrich the Trumps and the MAGA movement

- BY RUSS CHOMA, DAN FRIEDMAN, AND TIM MURPHY

"WE DON'T ACTUALLY GIVE A FUCK"

Eight years ago, if you wanted to line the first family’s pockets, your choices—while ethically unprecedented—were limited. There was only so much you could spend on hotel rooms or Mar-a-Lago fundraisers. Fortunately for foreign governments, megacorporations, and anyone else with an agenda, the Trumps have diversified.

“It's a whole different scale than it was in 2017,” says Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, who says President Donald Trump and his underlings “seem to believe that the American people don’t care. They're not making much of an effort to hide any of this stuff.”

The options for paying tribute to the president, his kin, and the MAGA movement are now legion. There are even exciting new opportunities to protect your business by reaching a “settlement” with the leader of the free world. Or you can just give him a 747, as Qatar is reportedly planning to do. Best of all, these creative funding methods might not even be against the law—especially for Trump. (Thanks, SCOTUS!) So here’s your guide to participating in the brave new Trump-trumpworld of executive enrichment.

Buy Some Crypto

  • Who pays: alleged fraudsters, speculators, MAGA diehards

  • Who benefits: the Trumps

As the “Bitcoin orange” Trump-branded watches ($799) indicate, the 47th commander in chief is the “Crypto President.” Last year, Trump rolled out his own crypto firm, called World Liberty Financial. After Trump won, crypto investor Justin Sun bought $75 million worth of WLF tokens, with more than $50 million of that potentially going to the Trumps, according to Bloomberg. Shortly after Trump took office, the Securities and Exchange Commission—which had accused Sun of fraud in a federal complaint—agreed to pause its lawsuit while the parties pursued a “potential resolution.”

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