Bibles, Home Alone and perfume: Six things about how Trump made money in 2025

"I don't get involved in my personal [finances], we have funds that run my money," he said. "I've made a lot of money before I became president, and they invest my money, and I don't talk to them."5. Home Alone deal20th Century Fox / AlamyTrump receives a Screen Actors Guild pension after appearing in Home Alone 2The president has two pensions with SAG-AFTRA, the trade union for American film and television actors. Last year, the pensions paid him a total of $86,532.Trump appeared in films such as Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, where pint-sized hero Kevin McCallister - played by Macaulay Culkin - just happens to run into the businessman in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel. His television credits include hosting the US version of The Apprentice and a cameo in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He has two pensions because they predate the merger of SAG, the film actors' union, and AFTRA, for television actors, in 2012.He quit the union in 2021, after it launched an investigation into his role in the US Capitol riot. It was expected that he would have been expelled from the organisation. His pension was not affected.6. Damages paid by media firmsTrump's various lawsuits against media companies netted him $86.5m last year.