How much Donald Trump is worth financially is one of the enduring mysteries of the 2016 presidential race, and with Trump declining to release his tax returns and abruptly announcing he will no longer self-finance his campaign, The Wall Street Journal investigated to see what it could find out. What the newspaper determined — after looking at Trump's financial disclosure form filed last summer, talking to experts, and crunching lots of numbers — is that Trump probably earns about $160 million a year, before taxes, and "in terms of ready cash, he would be ill-equipped to foot the bill himself" for his general election campaign.
With that amount of income and between $78 million and $232 million in relatively liquid assets, as Trump reported last summer, he would either have to borrow against his property or sell some of it if he were to bankroll his campaign. Asked to respond to The Journal's analysis, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said: "The income number is wrong by a lot, but Mr. Trump said, 'Who cares — it doesn't matter.'" Trump himself told the newspaper in March that he earns "hundreds of millions of dollars" from 114 licensing deals.
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