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• 63% of Americans say it was inappropriate for Trump and his family to profit from cryptocurrency ventures (including World Liberty Financial and the Trump meme coin), from which they earned more than $1.4 billion last year.
• 69% believe Trump’s private business interests are influencing his presidential decisions.
• That view is held by half of Republicans, two-thirds of independents, and nine in ten Democrats.
• Ethics experts describe the current mix of business and politics in the White House as unprecedented.
• The White House denies any conflicts of interest.

Findings from a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,166 U.S. adults conducted online August 14–17, 2026 (margin of error ±3 percentage points).

Source: Reuters (August 19, 2026)

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are no longer sticking to generic family business. Funds linked to them have invested in 15 defense, robotics and AI companies that generated at least $3.2 billion in direct federal business after the investments, plus $3.1 billion in future contract options. Their proposed Kazakhstan tungsten deal also carries up to $1.6 billion in federal letters of interest, although that is not money already paid. Some companies had government contracts before the brothers invested, and there is no public proof they influenced an award, but putting the president’s family on the private side of strategic industrial policy creates an obvious conflict risk.