Trump explains $3B net worth jump in 60 Minutes interview: You shouldve had stock

President Trump has insisted there is a simple explanation for him becoming more than $3 billion richer on paper since the start of his second term.“You should’ve had stock,” Trump told “60 Minutes” correspondent Ross Douthat in an interview broadcast Sunday evening.The president added that “I devote almost no time to my net worth.

I don’t care.I make, I have a lot of money.

Far more than I ever thought I’d have.And, I guess it’s gone up.

I don’t even know.“I have a son [Don Jr.] who’s a very straight, good guy.

He watches over money.I don’t even talk to him about it.

He watches.He gives, they gave my money — I have a lot of cash.

I’ve had a lot of cash, long before I came in here.I don’t take a salary, you know.”Trump, 80, is estimated by Forbes to be worth about $6 billion, up from $2.3 billion in 2024.The president’s financial disclosures for 2025, released this past June, indicate that he made more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency income and tens of millions from new foreign real estate deals last year.That figure includes a staggering $635 million from sales of his free-floating $Trump meme coin — launched three days before he took office —  via his company CIC Digital LLC, as well as more than $236 million in additional income from selling cryptocurrency tokens through World Liberty Financial, the company founded by Trump, special envoy Steve Witkoff and their sons in 2024.The files listed $65.6 million from a sale of equity in World Liberty — a likely reference to the reported sale of part of the company last January to companies associated with United Arab Emirates national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan.Trump reported a further $205 million in proceeds from stablecoin investments, including by selling part of Stablecoin Holdco, which is associated with World Liberty and its issuance of the USD1 stablecoin.The forms also listed major foreign revenue from licensing fees on building and go...