Trump says everyone in America is ‘profiting’ from his presidency — claims your 401(k) is up 85%. How to get your share

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President Donald Trump says his idiosyncratic wealthiness is surging for the aforesaid crushed mean Americans are getting richer: the banal marketplace is going up.

Trump made the statement aft a newsman asked (1) what connection his highly lucrative twelvemonth sends to Americans who are struggling financially.

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"I don't get involved," Trump said of his investments. "We person funds that tally my money."

The newsman past pressed him connected disapproval that helium is profiting from the presidency.

"You cognize wherefore I'm profiting? Because the banal market's going up," helium responded. "Everybody's profiting."

Trump past turned the question backmost connected the reporter.

"If you person a 401(k), how's your 401(k) done?" helium asked. "It's astir up 85%. 'Thank you, President Trump!' So, we're each profiting."

Trump's comments came aft his latest yearly fiscal disclosure revealed an bonzer twelvemonth for the billionaire president.

He reported much than $1.4 cardinal (2) successful income from his family's cryptocurrency ventures successful 2025. Meanwhile, his expanding portfolios of stocks and bonds were valued astatine betwixt $703 cardinal and $2.6 cardinal astatine the extremity of 2025, up from betwixt $225 cardinal and $608 cardinal 1 twelvemonth earlier.

But is everyone truly profiting?

The banal marketplace has surely climbed. The benchmark S&P 500 has gained astir 25% since the opening of Trump's 2nd term, lifting status accounts on the way. This is contempt respective whipsaw marketplace moments from 2025, specified arsenic April's reciprocal tariffs.

According to Fidelity (3), the mean 401(k) equilibrium roseate 11% from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026, reaching $141,000.

Vanguard reported (4) a akin trend, stating that "strong marketplace show successful 2025 led straight to important increases successful status accounts." Its mean 401(k) equilibrium roseate 13% successful 2025 to an all-time precocious of $167,970.

But not everyone has adjacent vulnerability to that growth.

Federal Reserve information (5) shows that the wealthiest 10% of Americans clasp much than 87% of firm equities and communal money shares. The bottommost 50%, by comparison, collectively owns conscionable 1% of that banal and communal money wealth.