A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has delivered a stark verdict on presidential crypto dealings, with 63 percent of Americans saying it is not appropriate for President Donald Trump and his family to earn money from cryptocurrency investments while in office.
The survey, conducted between August 14 and 17 among 1,166 respondents, highlights how sharply the issue divides the country along partisan lines. While a clear overall majority frowned on the Trump family's crypto earnings, 69 percent of Republicans said the investments were appropriate. Among Democrats, opposition was nearly unanimous, with 92 percent saying the family should not be profiting from digital assets while holding power.
The findings land at an awkward moment for the administration, which has gone further than any predecessor in embracing the crypto industry — and at a time when the president's family businesses are deeply embedded in the sector.
1.4 billion USD in a single year
The poll is difficult to separate from the sheer scale of the Trump family's crypto footprint. A June report from the US Office of Government Ethics, based on the president's financial disclosures, revealed that Trump earned roughly 1.4 billion USD from crypto-related investments in 2025 — more than he made from his storied real estate empire in the same period.
The earnings flowed in part through World Liberty Financial, the family-backed crypto venture, and the Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin launched in the run-up to the president's return to the White House. The disclosure stunned ethics watchdogs, who noted that no previous president had maintained such extensive personal financial exposure to a single industry while actively shaping its regulation.
The White House has consistently rejected suggestions of impropriety. Spokesperson Anna Kelly has repeatedly said in response to press inquiries that there are "no conflicts of interest" in the president's crypto holdings, and administration officials argue the family's businesses operate at arm's length from policy decisions.
Democrats circle, legislation proposed
Not everyone in Washington is convinced. Several lawmakers have called for formal investigations and demanded additional information from government agencies about World Liberty Financial and the broader Trump family crypto portfolio.
In July, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation that would create a dedicated federal agency to combat corruption, explicitly citing what he described as the president's "various, and extremely lucrative, cryptocurrency ventures." Senator Elizabeth Warren has been among the most vocal voices pressing regulators for detailed reporting on the family's earnings.
The scrutiny intensified earlier in August when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted a conditional trust bank charter to a Trump family crypto company, a decision critics said blurred the line between the regulator and the regulated family that owns it.
A political problem for a pro-crypto White House
The poll's timing is particularly uncomfortable for the administration's legislative agenda. On Wednesday, Trump appeared at a White House press conference flanked by crypto executives and industry leaders, using the platform to pressure senators into passing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act — the landmark market structure bill that would define the respective roles of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The legislation is scheduled for a cloture vote on September 15, and the president has made its passage a personal priority. But the polling data suggests the public may view the fusion of family finance and crypto policy with suspicion, handing ammunition to Democratic senators who have argued that stronger ethics provisions must be attached to any market structure bill before it advances.
Industry advocates have long insisted that clear rules would benefit the entire market rather than any single family's holdings. Yet with 63 percent of respondents — including a meaningful slice of independents — telling pollsters the arrangements are inappropriate, the White House may find its crypto advocacy complicated by the very conflicts it refuses to acknowledge.
For an industry still fighting for mainstream legitimacy after years of scandals, the entanglement of the presidency with memecoins and family ventures is a double-edged sword: it has delivered unprecedented access and executive support, but at the cost of deepening public skepticism about who exactly the crypto policy revolution is designed to serve.
The Reuters/Ipsos survey suggests that question is far from settled in the minds of American voters — and with the CLARITY Act's September deadline approaching, the tension between the president's business interests and his legislative agenda is only set to grow.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency markets are volatile — always do your own research before investing.
63 percent overall but 69 percent of Republicans fine with it. the poll basically just measures your team at this point
The 92 percent Democratic number is the least surprising statistic of 2026
the 12 percent of republicans who called it inappropriate are the real number here. even team loyalty seems to hit a ceiling somewhere north of a billion
12 percent defecting on a team question is actually a lot. run the same question about any rival family and it wouldnt crack 5
1.4 billion in a year while holding office and half the country shrugs lol
polls about appropriateness move nothing until republican members of congress start fearing primary challenges over it. watch the 12 percent, thats the canary
12 percent defecting on a partisan identity question is genuinely high. translate that to a generic ballot and consultants start sweating
63 percent overall but 69 percent of republicans fine with it. that gap is the whole story, no law is coming while the base is okay with it
nah the gap isnt the whole story. 63 percent of ALL americans including a third of the opposing party saying inappropriate is exactly the number that survives an election cycle
add the 1,166 sample size on top and honestly this poll is a vibes check, not a mandate. directionally true tho
1.4 billion from the disclosures while in office and people still argue its normal. picture any previous president doing half of this
name one previous president whose family launched memecoins and a stablecoin while in office. the comparison fails at the first step
previous presidents sold pardons and land grants, the tech is new, the grift is ancient. the disclosure rules just make the receipts public now
the receipts part is the difference though. disclosure turns it into a matter of record instead of rumor, and records compound
the receipts being public is the actual difference. disclosure made the 1.4b auditable, before this kind of stuff stayed rumor for decades
disclosure turned rumor into a line item anyone can audit. that paper trail outlasts every news cycle written about it
the base being fine with it is why the ethics disclosures started mattering more than polls. paper trail outlives the news cycle
1,166 respondents and this poll gets cited all week. the 92 to 69 split will be memory holed by both sides
1,166 is small, but similar partisan-gap numbers keep repeating across polls this month. the direction matters more than any single sample
sample size complaints always come from whichever side is losing the number. 63 percent with a consistent partisan gap is not noise
1,166 people is small but the 92 to 69 split has shown up in like three polls now. nobody is memory holing that, its just inconvenient
the 12% GOP defection at 1.4B disclosed is the ceiling starting to crack. primaries listen before generals do
poll ran aug 14 to 17, right as the 1.4b disclosure story was recirculating. framing does a lot of heavy lifting in these numbers
polls like this matter zero until they show up in a swing district ad. appropriateness numbers dont move votes, margin numbers do
Swing state voters mostly could not name World Liberty if you paid them. This moves primaries, not the general.
63 percent say inappropriate and the portfolio keeps growing anyway. a poll with no enforcement mechanism lol