President Donald Trump earned $1.3 million off the sale of Bibles in 2024. The White House released financial disclosure forms on Friday as the nation prepared for protests and a military parade celebrating the anniversary of the US Army. The 234-page report , covering the 12 months before Trump was sworn into office, shows his wealth vastly increased while he was running for president. Trump earned $57.4 million as the “chief crypto advocate” and “inspiration” for a cryptocurrency company founded in 2024, in addition to other more traditional sources of revenue, such as the $50 million he earned from his Palm Beach, Florida, golf resort Mar-a-Lago, and $20.8 million from Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC, in Potomac Falls, Virginia. The president reported total assets of about $1.6 billion and annual income of $600 million . Thanks for signing up. Please click here to see all our newsletters. Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again. One piece of that income came from the endorsement of the God Bless the USA Bible . Trump endorsed the Bible around Easter, shortly after a New York State court threaten to start seizing assets if he couldn’t pay a $175 million bond while he appealed his conviction in a civil fraud case. “This Bible is a reminder that the biggest thing we have to bring back America and to make America great again is our religion,” Trump said in a promotional video. “We must protect content that is pro-God. We love God. And we have to protect anything that is pro-God. We must defend God in the public square and not allow the media or the left-wing groups to silence, censor, or discriminate against us.” The God Bless the USA Bible uses the King James Version and is published with a copy of the chorus of “God Bless the USA,” handwritten by country singer Lee Greenwood: “I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. / And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.” It also includes the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Pledge of Allegiance. The Bible sells for $59.99. Editions endorsed by Trump, including the Inauguration Day Edition , the Presidential Edition , and the Golden Age Edition , sell for $99.99. The Bibles are printed for about $3 each in Hangzhou, China, according to the Associated Press. Religious books are exempt from tariffs on Chinese imports, the US Customs and Border Protection told Christianity Today . Several editions of the Bible, including one celebrating Trump’s survival of an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, have sold out. Trump has not disclosed how much he makes per copy. Royalties are paid to a licensing company called CIC Ventures. Trump was listed in the financial disclosure as CIC Ventures’ manager, president, secretary, and treasurer. The company also licenses Trump’s name to sell watches, sneakers, and guitars. Tim Wildsmith, a Baptist minister in Nashville who reviews Bibles on his YouTube channel , said the God Bless the USA Bible appears to be cheaply made. “I would expect this Bible to be maybe $15 to $20 tops,” Wildsmith said. “It disappoints me that it’s even out there, and it disappoints me that people are making money off of this. … This feels more like a money grab than anything else.” Trump is not the first president to endorse an edition of Scripture. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt both endorsed Bibles. They were not sold for profit, however, but given to American soldiers going to fight in World War I and II. Trump said he licensed his name to the God Bless America Bible because the Bible is his favorite book and “a lot of people’s favorite book.” Even some of his strong evangelical supporters have questioned how much he’s read it, though. Author Eric Metaxas , for example, once wrote that Trump “has evinced a startling lack of familiarity with the Bible.” When Trump was running for president in 2015, he refused to say what his favorite Bible verses were, protesting the question was too personal. When he was asked about the Bible again on the Christian Broadcasting Network, he said it was a great book that you could read 20 times and appreciate more every time and that he’d learned a lot from Scripture. Trump cited as an example the command “Never bend to envy.” The phrase does not appear in the King James Version, the Revised Standard Version that Trump was given as a child, or any major English translation. Evangelical journalist David Brody said he thought Trump was probably conflating two passages. He asked for clarification and staffers told him Trump was referring to Proverbs 24, which says “Do not envy the wicked” (v. 1). Brody argued that from one perspective, Trump’s inability to quote Scripture could be admired. “Trump … had no desire to take the easy road and simply memorize a couple of Bible verses,” Brody wrote in The Faith of Donald J. Trump . “I had given him some of my favorite verses. A staffer could have come up with a few more, and even scripted some evangelicalish lines to sweeten the ears or stop the critics.” Brody wouldn’t call Trump a Christian, though. Instead, in his book, he wrote that “Donald Trump seems to be on a spiritual voyage that has accelerated greatly in the past few years.” God Bless the USA Bible has recently added several new editions to the lineup. One is endorsed by First Lady Melania Trump , another by Vice President JD Vance .
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