CREW, a nonpartisan ethics watchdog, analyzed Trump's mandatory federal financial disclosures to quantify how much personal income flowed to him from foreign sources in his first year back in office, breaking the total down by country and by business line — golf properties, licensing deals, crypto ventures, and more.
The report situates the figure against the constitutional backdrop of the emoluments clauses, which were written specifically to guard against foreign governments and their agents using gifts or payments to gain influence over an American official.
Because CREW's analysis works directly from the disclosure documents rather than secondhand reporting, it functions as a primary-source check on any aggregate figure — including this tracker's own — about how much foreign money reached the president personally.
CREW has continued the same analysis in subsequent disclosure cycles, making its report series a running audit trail for the exact "take the foreign money" category this tracker maintains.