Barron Trump earning staggering amount as he rakes in cash much quicker than his siblings
At just 19 years old, Barron Trump already has a staggering net worth as the youngest of Donald Trump's children may have made $40 million from his family's crypto venture
Barron Trump leads a largely elusive life outside the spotlight on his father, but the youngest of Donald Trump's children has likely been cashing in on one of his dad's latest ventures behind the scenes, raking in tens of millions of dollars.
The US President's oldest children made a few million dollars a year working inside their dad's real-estate empire, but at just 19 years of age, Barron appears to be earning much more at a much faster rate than his siblings, according to Forbes estimates.
It comes as it's revealed Trump earned $57M in income from crypto, guitars, sneakers, watches and books. In September, the Trump family launched a crypto venture named World Liberty Financial and it appeared that Barron may have been the brains behind the idea. This comes as Barron has decided to ditch some of his father's biggest events in recent weeks.
"Barron knows so much about this," Trump said during an interview at the time. In a rare admission of his own lack of knowledge on the subject, Trump added: 'He's got four wallets or something, and I'm saying, 'What is a wallet?''
In the nine months since the launch, Trump has made an estimated billion dollars or so on crypto and his youngest son has reaped the rewards too. Its possible that Barron has earned nearly $40 million, leaving him with an estimated $25 million fortune after taxes.
The staggering figure is much more money than his older siblings had acquired at his age. Trump's older children held small stakes in his tower in Las Vegas and then his hotel in Washington D.C. but none paid off as much as the crypto venture - which has seen Barron make a significant mark as he enters into the Trump family business.
Barron is named as a "web3 ambassador" on World Liberty Financial's "gold paper" - the Trumpified version of a white paper. The same title is also given to Don Jr. and Eric Trump.
All three Trump sons are also listed as cofounders on the website along with four others but it had been a mystery as to exactly how much of a stake the Trump heirs had received in the venture. This changed on Friday when the president, who is named a 'chief crypto advocate' in the gold paper and cofounder emeritus on the website, released a financial disclosure report.
The report revealed that Trump holds a personal stake of 52.5% while unnamed family members own another 22.5%. The report doesn't detail how the stake is split among the family members.
However, if Don Jr., Eric and Barron shared equal stakes, this would mean they each hold 7.5% of the overall venture, the same amount that Trump's three eldest children held in his D.C. hotel. World Liberty Financial has reportedly sold at least $550 million of tokens.
Of that, everything apart from the first $30 million has apparently gone to the owners. This means that Barron and his brothers could have received $39 million each before taxes.
However, there's one factor that creates a complication. Sometime around January 2025, the Trump family sold a partial interest in the value in a transaction that appears to have come after the cutoff date for the recent financial disclosure.
How much Barron and his brothers have earned could be different depending on when and how much that stake was sold for. Regardless of this, it's clear that Barron has already joined the long list of Trump relatives who have discovered ways to cash in on their proximity to power.
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