The 19-year-old college student’s fortune has jumped by $80 million in the past year.
Like his father and three older siblings, Barron Trump seems to have a talent for using the wealth he was born into to make himself even more money, perhaps by leveraging privileges inherent with being the child of the president of the United States.
A new report said that the 19-year-old New York City University sophomore is enjoying a particularly lucrative 2025, thanks to his investment in cryptocurrencies. Barron Trump’s fortune has jumped by $80 million in the past year, according to Forbes. He now has an estimated net worth of around $150 million. On top of this, he is said to hold almost 2.3 billion tokens, which he could resell for $525 million.
Forbes noted that Barron Trump, the president’s youngest son and only child with third wife Melania Trump, was among the first in his family to take an interest in the cryptocurrency market. Barron reportedly helped convinced Trump to launch his own company, World Liberty Financial, last fall, ahead of the 2024 election.
The timing of the World Liberty launch raised concerns about the past and future president’s conflicts of interest and alarmed even some of his most vocal supporters in the industry, according to the New York Times. But those issues didn’t seem to concern President Trump as he talked up the family’s new crypto venture, including Barron’s role in it, during a September 2024 livestream announcement.
Then 18 and a freshman at NYU, Barron was listed as the project’s “DeFi” visionary, a reference to the branch of crypto known as decentralized finance, the Times said. Trump described his son as a crypto enthusiast, saying, “He’s got four wallets or something. He knows this stuff inside out.”
Barron Trump continues to work on building his fortune. A source told People in August that he spent his summer break in meetings with partners, developing tech projects and setting up deals and plans to start his own business. He also reportedly moved into the White House, where he lived during his father’s first term. According to multiple reports, he’s living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. while continuing his studies at NYU by taking classes at its Washington, D.C., campus.
It appears, though, that Barron Trump still gets back to New York City from time to time, with Page Six reporting this week that he recently enjoyed a date night at Trump Tower. In fact, the report said that Donald and Melania Trump arranged for an entire floor of the midtown Manhattan high-rise to be shut down, “for security reasons,” so that 6-foot-9-inch Barron could safely enjoy his romantic rendezvous.
Such is the life of Trump’s youngest son. Meanwhile, other Trump family members also appear to be benefitting from Trump’s second term in the White House. For example, Barron’s 18-year-old niece, Kai Trump, launched a new line of pricey, $130 sweatshirts — monogrammed with her “KT” initials — with a promotional video and ads shot at the White House.
But the past year has been even more lucrative for Kai Trump’s father, Donald Trump Jr., according to Vanity Fair and Forbes. In the past year, his fortune has grown from around $50 million last year to $500 million today. The president’s oldest son is a co-founder of World Liberty, owns a stake in American Bitcoin and is active in the “anti-woke economy,” sitting on the boards of an online “anti-woke and anti-abortion” marketplace, the online gun distributor GrabAGun and the parent company of Truth Social.
The cryptocurrency market and the Trump family’s involvement in a Trump-named golf resort in Qatar — a deal signed in May — have reportedly been even more beneficial to middle brother Eric Trump, who has seen his bank account grow from $40 million to $750 million over the past year, according to Forbes and Vanity Fair.
Alas, Ivanka Trump’s $100 million estimated fortune seems small compared to her siblings. But her husband, Jared Kushner, has amassed a $1 billion net worth, in part by leveraging relationships he built in the Middle East when he served as White House senior advisor during his father-in-law’s first administration.
But the person who has benefited the most from the Trump family’s immersion into the cryptocurrency world has been the president, according to Forbes and Vanity Fair. Over the past year, Trump’s fortune has jumped by $3 billion, a 70% increase, with his crypto investments alone representing $2 billion.
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