New Poll Makes Clear: Market Structure Legislation Must Have Enforceable Ban On President Trump Issuing And Profiting From Crypto

New Poll Makes Clear: Market Structure Legislation Must Have Enforceable Ban On President Trump Issuing And Profiting From Crypto

Aug 23, 2026

Reuters/Ipsos Survey Finds 63% of Americans Say the President's Crypto Profits are Inappropriate

69% Say Trump's Private Business Interests are Influencing his Decisions in Office, Including Roughly Half of Republicans

A new Reuters/Ipsos survey released this week confirms what Americans across the political spectrum already sense: the president is using the powers of his office to line his own pockets, and they want it stopped.

The president reported more than $1.4 billion in crypto-related income last year, largely from World Liberty Financial and the Trump memecoin - ventures he has personally championed.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today renewed her call for any digital asset market structure bill to include a firm prohibition on the president, the president's spouse, and senior officials issuing, sponsoring, or profiting from cryptocurrency while in office.

Senator Gillibrand issued the following statement:

"The American people see exactly what is happening in plain sight: a president who campaigned on draining the swamp has turned the White House into his personal trading desk. When more than two-thirds of Americans and nearly half of the president's own party can see his clear conflict of interest, this is no longer a partisan question. It's a basic test of whether public office is still supposed to serve the public.

"We can pass smart, clear rules for digital assets and shut down presidential self-dealing at the same time. There must be an enforceable ban, and any market structure bill that leaves enforcement solely in the hands of the president's own Justice Department and allows him to profit from crypto isn't a reform. It's a permission slip.

"I will not vote to hand this president, or any president, a taxpayer-backed license to get rich off the office."

Senator Gillibrand has long argued that Congress cannot write the rules of the road for a trillion-dollar industry while leaving the most obvious conflict of interest untouched. As the Senate considers market structure legislation, she is pressing colleagues on both sides of the aisle to close the loophole that lets a sitting president issue a coin, drive up its value with the megaphone of his office, and pocket the proceeds.

In July, Gillibrand called on Senate leadership to ensure that a prohibition on public officials issuing, sponsoring, or profiting from crypto tokens is included in any market structure package.

The Reuters survey of 1,166 adults, conducted August 14-17, found that 63% of Americans believe it is inappropriate for President Trump to have profited from cryptocurrency since his return to power, while just 32% said it was appropriate.

Nearly seven in ten Americans - including 48% of Republicans - said they believe the president allows his private business interests to influence his decisions in office.

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