63% of Americans call Trump family's crypto profits inappropriate

A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 63% of Americans say it isn't "appropriate" for President Trump and his family to earn money from crypto investments while he's in office, BeInCrypto reported. The same poll found 69% of respondents believe Trump's business interests influence his policy decisions. Reuters surveyed 1,166 adults online between August 14 and 17, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points overall and plus or minus 5 points within party subgroups.

The results split sharply along party lines. Among Republicans polled, 69% said Trump and his family earning crypto income while in office is appropriate, while 92% of Democrats called it inappropriate. Independents landed closer to the overall national result than to either party.

• Say it's not appropriate for Trump and his family to profit from crypto in office: 63%
• Say Trump's business interests influence his policy decisions: 69%
• Republicans who called it appropriate: 69%
• Democrats who called it inappropriate: 92%
• Poll sample size: 1,166 US adults, surveyed August 14 to 17

The poll lands against a documented backdrop. A June disclosure from the US Office of Government Ethics showed Trump earned $1.4 billion from crypto-related investments in 2025, including income tied to his family's World Liberty Financial venture and his Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly has repeatedly said there are "no conflicts of interest," and the White House has declined to comment further on the president's crypto holdings.

“We have seen nothing like this before.”

— Richard Painter, former White House ethics lawyer, to Reuters

Painter, who served as chief ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush White House, told Reuters the mix of business and politics in this administration has no real precedent, adding that even Trump's first term didn't carry this scale of complex business interests. Trump has responded to similar criticism before by saying he isn't involved in the family business day to day and that his investments are managed independently of him.

The poll comes as Trump keeps pushing the Senate on a different piece of crypto policy: the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which he urged Congress to pass in a "fair version" at a White House meeting with crypto executives earlier this week. The bill is now scheduled for a cloture vote in the Senate on September 15. Democrats have used the ethics dispute over the president's own crypto holdings as part of their case for the bill's ethics provisions, the same fight that has kept it stalled for months.

A poll number like 63% doesn't change any policy on its own, but it changes the political cost of the status quo for lawmakers weighing whether to back the ethics provisions Democrats want in the Clarity Act. A president whose family income is tied to the same industry his administration is actively deregulating gives critics a concrete, pollable talking point rather than an abstract conflict-of-interest argument, and the partisan gap in the numbers shows how cleanly that argument now maps onto existing political lines rather than crossing them, which limits how much pressure it can put on Republican lawmakers who already back the bill.

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