{"id":75596,"date":"2026-07-01T08:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/alarm-bells-over-conflict-of-interest-as-filing-shows-trump-raked-in-2bn-in-2025-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:01:46","slug":"alarm-bells-over-conflict-of-interest-as-filing-shows-trump-raked-in-2bn-in-2025-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/alarm-bells-over-conflict-of-interest-as-filing-shows-trump-raked-in-2bn-in-2025-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025 | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President made more than $1bn from crypto businesses last year while federal government oversaw regulation. Plus, giant seal causes havoc in Tasmania \u2013 but locals love him<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\"><strong>Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/30\/trump-1bn-crypto-businesses-2025\">raked in more than $1bn from his crypto businesses<\/a> since returning to the White House, according to financial disclosures, making him substantially richer and ringing alarm bells over a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where else is Trump getting money from?<\/strong> The US president made millions last year from selling Trump-branded bibles, sneakers and other small items in another unprecedented move for the presidency. In the Trump-branded watches category alone, the president earned $4.7m. Trump also racked up tens of millions from fees and licensing deals in a flurry of new hotel, resort and condo deals overseas. Many of those countries were at the same time negotiating with the US over tariffs, military aid and other important matters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/01\/first-thing-trump-crypto-billion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President made more than $1bn from crypto businesses last year while federal government oversaw regulation. Plus, giant seal causes havoc in Tasmania \u2013 but locals love him Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump has raked in more than $1bn from his crypto businesses since returning to &#8230; <a title=\"Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025 | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/alarm-bells-over-conflict-of-interest-as-filing-shows-trump-raked-in-2bn-in-2025-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025 | First Thing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}