Grand Theft America is a record of documented acts, compiled one at a time. Every entry is a receipt: a specific thing that happened, on a date, with a source you can open.
$3.4 billion is the family’s cash. It is the sum of 26 Money receipts in which money reached Donald Trump, his family, or a business they own, counted from election day, November 5, 2024. The other 97 Money receipts are not in that figure. Many describe money that moved near the family without a documented share reaching it; those are logged, not counted. The same number appears on the home page, the Money page, the essays and the end of the heist game, and it changes only when a counted receipt is added or corrected.
$192 billion is the crew’s pool. It is the sum of 55 receipts describing deals, stakes, capital raised and taxpayer contracts that went to the people and companies around the President: a $55 billion buyout Jared Kushner’s fund joined, $50 billion in federal contracts to ballroom donors, a $20 billion Treasury swap line. It is money in motion, not money in anyone’s pocket, and it is never added to the $3.4 billion.
Two rules keep the cash figure honest. Settlement money paid at Trump’s direction to his library foundation or another vehicle he chose is counted as his, with the recipient named on the receipt. World Liberty Financial’s token sales are booked at the family’s contractual 75 percent share as Reuters estimated it, $1.447 billion, the basis the Center for American Progress uses; the receipt shows beside it the $526.8 million the disclosure says had reached Trump personally. A receipt that restates money already counted is marked as a re-disclosure and never summed.
Figures carry one decimal at most. A billion and over reads in billions, a million and over in millions, anything smaller in thousands; past a hundred million the decimal is dropped. Every figure is in U.S. dollars. The exact filed number is in the data we publish and in the source the receipt links.
Cash is what the record says reached that person or company. For the Trump family it is shown once, under Donald Trump, because the family’s receipts are shared; the sons’ rows say “share of the family take” rather than repeating the money.
Interests is what that person has riding on the government: the face value of the deals, stakes, contracts and projects they are party to. Donald Trump’s $8.1 billion is mostly the token holdings and licensing deals of businesses he owns; Ivanka Trump’s $6.1 billion is the projected value of two Albanian resorts. These figures overlap, because several people sit on the same deal, and a project’s value is not money anyone has received. They are there to show the size of each person’s stake, and they are never summed, with each other or with Cash.
Paid in is what that person or company gave: to the inauguration, the super PAC, the ballroom, a settlement, a dinner. It is the price of entry, and it is counted on the giver’s row only.
A Money receipt documents a transfer, benefit, favor, relief, financial conflict, or identifiable beneficiary. Not a rumor, not an unsourced estimate, not a hypothetical. We prefer the filing to the coverage of it: the disclosure, the FEC schedule, the contract award on USAspending, the court docket. Each receipt carries a kind. Cash is money received. Taxpayer money is public funds directed somewhere by the administration. Deal or stake is the value of an agreement or holding. Gift is a thing of value handed over. No figure means the act is documented but no dollar amount is.
The Money record is organized into five fronts, each a thing Trump does: sell Trump products from the White House; charge for access to the president; pardon donors and drop cases against friends; give government contracts to family and donors; profit from his own market-moving decisions. Under each front sit the specific plays, 42 in all, and every receipt is filed to one.
A Power receipt documents something the federal government, or someone acting in an official capacity, did or set in motion. That includes acts performed in speech where saying is doing: an official threat, an announced directive, a circulated draft order. It excludes off-hand insults, outside commentary, and claims about what someone believes. A state or county action with no federal actor does not belong on this ledger. The headline names the actor and the documented verb.
The Power record is organized into five moves from the strongman playbook: fire anyone who can stop him; make it too expensive to hold him accountable; point the law at critics; put troops in American cities; decide who gets to vote and who counts it. Under them sit 55 boxes. Each receipt carries one of five status words. Done: the act is complete. Underway: action taken and still in motion. Starting: first moves, not carried through. Blocked: stopped for now by a court or Congress. Threatened: announced or demanded, nothing done yet. A box is checked when at least one receipt under it is done or underway.
Software sweeps the public record for candidate acts and drafts a first description. Nothing is published on that basis alone. Every record was then checked by hand against its sources in October 2026 and given a verdict: confirmed, corrected (a date, figure or attribution fixed), stale (events have moved on; the text is updated), disputed (the sources disagree; the receipt says so), or unverified (we could not reach two sources; the receipt is held back). Each record cites two to four sources, and a primary document wherever one exists. Headlines, the five-part receipt pages and every essay are written by hand.
A receipt page has a fixed shape: the headline, one line of context, the facts strip, then what happened, who benefited, who wanted something, who lost out, and why it matters, followed by the sources. The five parts are there so a reader can see the transaction from every side before deciding what to call it.
Guardrails count. A court blocking an action, a grand jury refusing to indict, or an official resigning rather than comply becomes a receipt, held to the same standard as a completed action. Framing describes documented actions, effects, conflicts and appearances, not an unsupported motive and not a legal finding we are not in a position to make. Dates are the date of the act, not of the article.
Both records are published as structured data with the counting rules that produced them. We do not silently replace substantive claims. If we have something wrong, write to corrections@grandtheftamerica.us and we will tell you what changed and why.