Trump’s White House Windfall

By Alex Miller

On 30 June 2026, US President Donald Trump filed his Annual Financial Disclosure form with the Office of Government Ethics, in one of the few presidential norms with which he complies.  The statement covers the first year of his second term, and shows a staggering $2.2 billion income for 2025, a testament to Trump’s ability to milk his Commander-in-Chief cash cow for all it’s worth, and then some.

Of that total, which includes real estate, publishing royalites, licensing deals, lawsuit settlements and gifts, the lion’s share comes from the Trump family’s cryptocurrency businesses, with $1.4 billion reaped from such ventures as the $TRUMP meme coin, released in January 2025, mere weeks before his second inauguration.  The initial offering cost on the coin, a blockchain boondoggle for most investors, was $75, and now, 18 months later, has dropped to $1.70, a 98% loss in value.  Trump and a small cadre of early investors raked in $4 billion from the scheme, while nearly one million little guys took it on the chin to the tune of $3.81 billion in losses.

None of that matters to Trump, whose $500 million in token sales and holding stakes in the family’s World Liberty Financial company, which markets the coin, was eclipsed by $635 million netted in transfer fees, payable whenever the coin is bought or sold, whatever its value.  Add in $86.5 million in settlements from bogus civil suits lodged by the president against CBS, Meta, YouTube and X, and another nearly $500 million in personal gifts (including the value of comped sports tickets), and we reach the inconceivable grand total.  In contrast, his predecessor Joe Biden, head of the “Biden Crime Family,” as Trump would have it, scored just $13,600 in gifts for the entirety of his four-year term.

No one can say that Trump hasn’t lived up to the potential for corruption displayed in the chart for his second inauguration, on 20 January 2025.  The Sun (0 Aquarius) closely conjoined Pluto (1 Aquarius) suggests a focus (Sun) on issues involving power, vast sums of money, scandal and corruption, all Pluto-ruled.  Corruption (Pluto) is the beating heart (Sun) of Trump’s second term, which ironically, is committed in plain sight, for all to see (Sun), in what administration spokespeople term “the most transparent in history.”  Can’t argue with that!

A semisquare (45 degrees) to Saturn (16 Pisces) identifies the presidency as the vehicle for this unwonted largesse, reiterated by a square (90 degrees) to asteroid Whitehouse (2 Scorpio) doubling down on the Oval Office venue.  Asteroid Donn (17 Pisces) conjoined Saturn shows Trump personally as the fons et origo of this presidential windfall, while a square from asteroid Nemesis (27 Libra) to Sun/Pluto underscores the leitmotif of the administration as bent on vengeance and retribution, also on full display.

When the shocking extent of Trump’s benefiting from his office was revealed on June 30^th, the skies lent an explicit endorsement of the corruption theme, with asteroid Whitehouse (0 Aquarius) now conjoined Pluto (4 Aquarius), combining corruption and the presidency even more emphatically than in the inaugural chart, and opposed (180 degrees) Jupiter (0 Leo), highlighting the magnitude (Jupiter) of the payoff.

Mercury (26 Cancer) had turned retrograde the prior day, a period of going back over old ground, aptly timed to coincide with the release of documents (Mercury) detailing (Mercury again) prior (retrograde) earnings.  Mercury aligned with Donald Trump’s natal Saturn (23 Cancer)/Venus (25 Cancer) conjunction, which in itself speaks to extracting monetary value (Venus) from the presidency (Saturn).

Transit Venus (19 Leo) added to the chorus, conjoined asteroids Washingtonia, Bilk (both at 20 Leo) and Donn (24 Leo), for a shorthand celestial rendering of “profit (Venus) for Trump (Donn) from suspect financial dealing (Bilk) while in federal office (Washingtonia).”  Neptune (4 Aries) weighed in with an emphasis on fraud, deception and fakery, squared the Sun (8 Cancer), itself exactly conjunct Trump’s natal Mercury, and exactly sesquiquadrate (135 degrees) Venus.

The cherry atop this cosmic corruption sundae is asteroid Swindle, another symbol of fiscal chicanery and fraud.  Transit Swindle (11 Gemini) is an exact match for the second administration’s natal Jupiter, portraying the massive scale (Jupiter) of the corruption (Swindle) perpetrated thus far.  The administration’s natal Swindle (5 Capricorn) is closely conjoined Trump’s natal asteroid Whitehouse (4 Capricorn), mute testimony to his intention to make his second term pay big dividends, by any means available (Swindle).

Sources:  reporting from AP, CBS News, CNBC; chart data from serennu.com; graphic images by author.

Title Image Credit:  drawn by Chat GPT