Billionaire Trump Raked in a Fortune as His Investors Lost Out

Ethan Miller / Getty Images Two of Donald Trump’s key business ventures tanked in value in 2025 , but the president still managed to double his net worth last year. Shares for the president’s media, finance, and now energy company, Trump Media & Technology Trump, plummeted despite a record-high year for the stock market, falling 67 percent between Jan. 19 and December 2025, Axios reported. The losses come despite the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which includes most of the listed social media companies, being up 18 percent during the same period. Read more at The Daily Beast.