A Bloomberg TV segment on July 1, 2026 with anchor Romaine Bostick surfaced a striking data point from President Trump’s latest financial disclosure filed with the Office of Government Ethics: the president reported more than $1.4 billion in crypto earnings in 2025. As Bloomberg’s reporter noted on air, “More than 1.2 billion in crypto earnings, just crossing” when the filing hit the wire.
The bulk of that windfall came from smaller altcoins and Trump-branded tokens.
Where The Money Actually Came From
Bostick pointed out that “a lot of it was tied to some of the other smaller coins, including Trump’s own coins themselves that apparently contributed to that number.” He added the counterfactual bluntly: “If he had been invested primarily in Bitcoin, the world’s largest crypto going, he actually would not have made a lot of money. In fact, it was relatively flat last year.”
Bitcoin opened 2025 near 88,742 and closed the year at 87,497.94. The rough start to 2026 has been more punishing: BTC traded at 58,423.49 on July 1, 2026, after Polymarket downside markets at $85,000, $75,000, and $65,000 all resolved YES between December 1, 2025 and February 5, 2026.
Trump’s Disclosed Tech Holdings
The disclosure revealed Trump holds millions in shares of Nvidia, Apple, and Palantir. Two of the three benefited from the 2025 mega-cap AI trade. The third, NASDAQ:PLTR | PLTR Price Prediction, was one of last year’s standout gainers before losing steam.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)
NVIDIA shares are at $200.09, up 7.42% year-to-date and 44.88% since January 2, 2025. Fiscal Q1 2027 revenue landed at $81.6 billion, up 85.2% year over year, with data center at $75.25 billion. CEO Jensen Huang framed the setup as “the largest infrastructure expansion in human history.”
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)
Apple trades at $289.36, up 41.6% over the last year and 19.41% since the start of 2025. Fiscal Q2 2026 revenue was $111.2 billion, up 16.6%, with services at $30.98 billion. The biggest challenge to the company is rising memory prices which led to increasing prices across its portfolio of products.
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR)
Bostick called it directly: “Palantir was one of the best performing stocks last year, more than doubling, but it’s lagged pretty significantly over the last few months.” The stock closed June 30 at $116.67, down 34.36% year-to-date and 25.47% over the past month. Q1 2026 revenue of $1.63 billion, up 84.7%, with U.S. commercial up 133% and a raised FY26 guide of $7.65 to $7.66 billion. The rotation has taken 2026 investor dollars into memory chip makers like SanDisk and Micron.
How The Crypto Theme Shows Up In Public Equities
Retail investors seeking equity exposure to crypto tend to watch two tickers that illustrate the split between altcoin outperformance and Bitcoin’s stagnation, though neither appeared in the Trump filing.
MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), the largest corporate Bitcoin holder, has taken pure-BTC exposure directly on the chin. Shares sit at $86.93, down 78.49% over the last year. Q1 2026 delivered a $12.54 billion net loss driven by a $14.46 billion unrealized loss on bitcoin holdings. MicroStrategy held 762,099 BTC at quarter-end (see the SEC filings for CIK 1050446).
Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) trades at $146.19, down 35.35% year-to-date. Q1 2026 revenue of $1.41 billion fell 30.5% year over year, and the exchange announced a 14% headcount reduction.
Robinhood sits at $100.28, up 154.26% since early January 2025. Q1 2026 crypto revenue fell 47% year over year to $134 million, though the broker was named sole initial trustee for Trump Accounts, a direct administration tie-in.
What Investors Should Watch Next
The Bloomberg segment’s core lesson: 2025 crypto gains concentrated in altcoins and branded tokens, while 2026 has flipped that playbook. Bitcoin proxies like MSTR and COIN have decoupled from the mega-cap AI trade holding up Trump’s disclosed equity book. Prediction markets on Polymarket are pricing a 10.5% probability BTC reaches $100,000 by year-end, and an 82.5% probability it dips to $55,000. Whichever side resolves will decide whether the 2025 playbook rhymes in 2026.
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