特朗普财务披露：上任首年收入超20亿美元，加密货币占大头

AMNA NAWAZ: Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. GEOFF BENNETT: And I'm Geoff Bennett. On the "News Hour" tonight: Financial disclosures show President Trump making over $2 billion since returning to office, raising major questions about conflicts of interest. AMNA NAWAZ: Venezuela continues the arduous recovery from two deadly earthquakes, as the hope of finding survivors fades. GEOFF BENNETT: And one year after the Trump administration closed USAID, we speak with the agency's former administrator about the far-reaching consequences of that decision.

SAMANTHA POWER, Former USAID Administrator: People are dying because they don't have access to medicine, they don't have access to clean water. (BREAK) GEOFF BENNETT: Welcome to the "News Hour." President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure shows his various businesses generated more than $2 billion in income in 2025, his first year back in the White House. AMNA NAWAZ: That is more than triple his reported income from the year before.

The biggest gains came from the Trump family's cryptocurrency ventures. The president was asked about his finances this morning before leaving for North Dakota. DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: You know, you saw the cash, and you report the different things. And what they do is, we gave it, I think it's called a blind account, but they basically -- they take it. And I purposely -- I never speak to any of the people that run the money, but they're at big institutions, and they invest in whatever they invest in.

AMNA NAWAZ: For more on this, we turn now to Eric Lipton. He's an investigative journalist for The New York Times and has reported on President Trump's business interests for years. Eric, thanks for joining us. Before we talk more broadly about his finances, I want to ask specifically about a big chunk of it that's from cryptocurrency specifically. The president made more than a billion dollars just from crypto businesses in his first year as president.

Break that down for us. How did he do that? ERIC LIPTON, The New York Times: The two biggest chunks come from his meme coin, which he launched three days before his inauguration. It was a kind of a collectible that surged in value initially, and the people who quickly invested made a boatload of money, but then it crashed, and hundreds of thousands of people then lost money. Trump made hundreds of millions of dollars from that gamble that he asked people to follow on him on.

And many of his followers ended up as losers. The second big chunk of revenue comes from World Liberty Financial, a company that he and his sons started in October of 2024. That company is now one of the biggest issuers of what's called stablecoins in the world, and it was bought secretly and -- half of it -- by the United Arab Emirates in January of 2025, just as he was being sworn in to be president. And the UAE separately has invested $2 billion into its stablecoin, making it one of the biggest stablecoin issuers in the world.