Trump inflates wealth with $930 million move
President Donald Trump has added at least $620 million ($A930m) to his fortune in a matter of months through a series of cryptocurrency ventures, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — a dramatic and fast-moving shift in how the president and his family are generating wealth.
While Trump’s overall net worth has remained relatively stable — $6.5 billion ($A9.75b) on Election Day and $6.4 billion ($A9.6b) now — Bloomberg’s analysis shows that digital assets and crypto-linked ventures have rapidly become the most lucrative part of his portfolio.
Much of that comes from World Liberty Financial, a blockchain platform that issues its own token and a stablecoin called USD1.
Bloomberg estimates that $390 million ($A585m) of…