How Rich Was Every President, From Broke to Billionaire | History for Sleep

Now on Spotify, listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/033EGYA... Support the channel and keep the archives open: https://buymeacoffee.com/sleepyameric... We remember the presidents by their portraits and their monuments, men who ran the most powerful country on earth. But the money behind those faces tells a stranger, darker story. Some left the White House and could not cover their own monthly bills. Some died with creditors carrying off the furniture. And a few walked away with fortunes most people will never comprehend. In this video, we explore the full financial record of all forty-six presidents, from the billionaires to the broke. Donald Trump enters the story worth an estimated seven to ten billion dollars, the wealthiest man ever to hold the office, while John F. Kennedy, heir to a one-point-three-billion-dollar trust, quietly donated every presidential paycheck he ever received. George Washington built a sixty-thousand-acre land empire and one of the largest whiskey distilleries in early America. Thomas Jefferson, who drafted the Declaration, died on the Fourth of July in 1826 so deeply in debt that Monticello itself was sold off after his death. Ulysses S. Grant, ruined by a swindler named Ferdinand Ward, finished his memoirs days before dying of throat cancer and saved his family from ruin. And James Madison, the father of the Constitution, watched Montpelier slip away to debts his stepson quietly ran up, the farm sold off in 1844 while the republic he designed stood firm. Resources: George Washington's Mount Vernon, The Distillery, https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estat... Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Jefferson's Debt, https://www.monticello.org/research-e... James Madison's Montpelier, Dolley Madison, https://www.montpelier.org/learn/doll... White House Historical Association, https://www.whitehousehistory.org