Barron Trump was deeply involved in cryptocurrencies before his father knew much about them. “Barron knows a lot about this,” said US President Donald Trump during a September interview, when the Trump family launched a crypto company called World Liberty Financial. “Barron’s a young guy, but he knows: He talks about his wallet,” Trump added. “He’s got four wallets or something, and I’m like, ‘What’s a wallet?’”
In the nine months since, Donald Trump has made about $1 billion from cryptocurrencies, and his youngest son has done quite well for himself. In fact, Barron Trump may have made almost $40 million, leaving him with an estimated fortune of $25 million after taxes. That appears to be far more money than his older siblings amassed at their age. Trump’s older children had small stakes in their father’s Las Vegas tower, and later his Washington, D.C., hotel. But none of that seems to have yielded as much money as the cryptocurrency craze, which provided Barron with an opulent welcome into the Trump family business.
World Liberty Financial ’s financial report —a Trumpified white paper—named Barron as a “web3 ambassador,” the same title given to Don Jr. and Eric Trump . The three are also listed on its website as co-founders along with four others. However, for months, the Trump heirs’ stake in the company remained a complete mystery. On Friday, however, their father—dubbed “a leading cryptocurrency advocate” by the paper and co-founder emeritus on the website —published a financial disclosure report, revealing that he personally held a 52.5% stake and that unnamed family members owned another 22.5% . The document does not detail the split among family members. But if Don Jr., Eric, and Barron shared equal stakes, each would have retained 7.5% of the global company—exactly the same amount that Trump’s three oldest children held in their Washington hotel.
How much money has World Liberty Financial disbursed so far? The company sold at least $550 million in tokens, with all proceeds after the first $30 million going to the owners. Barron and his older siblings, therefore, could have received $39 million each before taxes. But there’s a complication. The Trump family apparently sold a partial stake in the company sometime around January 2025, a transaction that appears to have come after the deadline for the recent financial disclosure. Depending on when exactly the Trumps sold that stake and for how much, Barron and his siblings could have gotten a different sum. Representatives for World Liberty Financial and the Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment.
Regardless of Barron’s exact opinion, there’s no doubt that, at 19, he’s already joined the long list of presidential relatives who have found ways to capitalize on their proximity to power. He was only nine years old when his father descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower to announce his presidential candidacy. Seventeen months later, Donald Trump won the election and moved into the White House in January 2017. Barron and Melania followed that summer. Once in Washington, he enrolled at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, where tuition now exceeds $50,000 a year. His public appearances remained rare, but according to a 2020 biography of Melania, she renegotiated her prenuptial agreement in 2018 to ensure her son better inheritance terms and a greater stake in the family business.
During his years away from the White House and the spotlight, Barron reportedly attended Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, which charges an annual tuition fee of more than $40,000. In September 2024, he enrolled at New York University’s Stern School of Business, which costs $99,000 a year. That same month, his father announced the creation of World Liberty Financial. Barron should have no trouble paying the tuition.
