President Donald Trump’s luxury Florida clubs saw a major spike in earnings last year, according to federal financial disclosures, part of the historic windfall the Republican has earned since returning to office.
Last year, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, which also serves as his primary residence, earned him nearly $77.5 million, more than 50 percent more than in 2024.
The estate, which is sometimes called the “Winter White House,” has emerged as a key venue for getting access to the president. Donors and Silicon Valley executives have flocked to Palm Beach to court the president there, and Trump has regularly visited the property and held high-dollar fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago since taking office.
Fundraising events at the Florida club have hit $1 million-per-plate.
Shortly before Trump was reelected in 2024, Mar-a-Lago raised its initiation fee from $700,000 to $1 million. (The club hiked fees around the time of Trump’s first election, too.)
It was a similar story at the Miami-area Trump National Doral golf club, which helped Trump pull in $122 million in 2025, up from $110 million in 2024, according to a CNN analysis of the documents.
The roughly $200 million payday is nothing to shake a stick at, but the president earned substantially more from his newer crypto businesses, which helped Trump pull in more than $1 billion in 2025.
Critics have accused the president — who has also seen his money managers prolifically trade stocks in administration-aligned companies over the last year — of cashing in on his position as president.
The White House, meanwhile, stresses that the president’s assets are in a trust managed by his children, who have said independent financial institutions manage the president’s money outside of his or his family’s direct influence.
“As President Trump said, he has a lot of assets because he was a massively successful businessman prior to becoming President, which was why he was elected to office in the first place,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement to The Independent. “The President has implemented policies that have made all Americans wealthier and more prosperous – including cutting taxes, reshoring manufacturing, negotiating fairer trade deals, creating Trump Accounts for children, and more. All of the President’s assets are in held in fully discretionary accounts managed by independent third-party financial institutions. There are no conflicts of interest.”
The Independent has contacted the Trump Organization for comment.
Major funds have also flown in the president’s direction through some of his construction projects.
Corporate donors with business before the administration have poured millions of dollars into Trump’s White House ballroom project, and the president is facing scrutiny for a reported $50 million donation to his presidential library from Japanese conglomerate and AI investor SoftBank.
