The following inventory has been compiled from public records, court filings, congressional testimony, investigative reporting, and the president’s own statements. It is partial. It is not exhaustive. It cannot be exhaustive. The subject has been accumulating things that do not belong to him for approximately seven decades, and the archival challenges are significant.
Items are listed in no particular order, as the president himself has shown no preference for order in their acquisition.
One Nobel Peace Prize medal.
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado of Venezuela for, in the words of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, her “tireless campaign to restore democratic rights” and her “extraordinary example of civilian courage.” In January 2026, Machado visited the White House and presented the medal to President Trump. Trump accepted it and posted on Truth Social: “María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done.” The Nobel Foundation clarified that the prize is “inseparably linked” to its recipient and cannot be transferred, shared, or reassigned. The White House described this clarification as “pretentious nonsense.” The medal remains at an undisclosed location, presumably the White House, which is itself a location whose relationship with the president’s personal property is, as this inventory will demonstrate, complicated.
One set of 1984 Olympic gold, silver, and bronze medals.
A complete set of original medals from the 1984 Los Angeles Games was presented to President Trump at a White House ceremony in August 2025 by the chairman of the 2028 LA Olympics organizing committee. Upon receiving them, the president asked: “Can I say I won them athletically?” He then posted about the event five times on Truth Social. He did not win them athletically. He was 38 years old in 1984 and was not an Olympic athlete. The medals were won by people who trained for years in specific athletic disciplines and competed against the best in the world. The president attended no events, competed in no trials, and broke no records, except possibly for the number of Truth Social posts about a single box of medals.
One gold medal belonging to Matthew Tkachuk.
In February 2026, the US men’s Olympic hockey team visited the Oval Office following their gold medal victory at the Milan Cortina Winter Games. Forward Matthew Tkachuk offered the president his medal to try on. The president put it on. The president then said, “I’m not giving it back.” He was joking. Presumably. The medal was returned. The joke is included in this inventory because the instinct it expressed is documented across every other category herein.
One FIFA Club World Cup medallion.
In the summer of 2025, Chelsea FC won the FIFA Club World Cup. Trump was present for the medal ceremony and remained on the winners’ dais as the players collected their awards. Footage shows him pocketing one of the medallions distributed to players. He subsequently announced that FIFA had gifted him the original Club World Cup trophy and that the trophy Chelsea raised in celebration was a copy. FIFA did not confirm this claim. Chelsea did not comment on whether their trophy was real. The medallion’s current whereabouts are not publicly documented.
Approximately 337 classified government documents.
Between January 2021 and August 2022, investigators recovered from Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster 337 classified documents that had been removed from the White House at the end of the Trump administration. These included materials marked Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential. They were stored in a ballroom, an office, a storage room, a bedroom, and a bathroom and shower, the last of which was photographed for the federal indictment: two dozen boxes stacked on marble tile beneath a crystal chandelier, which is either the most expensive bathroom in the history of classified materials or the least appropriate, depending on your priorities.
Some of the documents were accessible to only six people in the entire United States government. Investigators found evidence they pertained to Trump’s business interests and assessed that this established “a motive for retaining them.” In July 2021, Trump showed a classified military document described as a “plan of attack” against another country to a book author and a publisher, neither of whom had security clearance. On the recording: “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this.” And then: “See as president, I could have declassified it. Now I can’t.” He had not declassified it. He showed it anyway. Susie Wiles, then CEO of his super PAC, witnessed him showing a classified map to passengers on his private plane.
The charges were subsequently dropped after he returned to office. The documents are, by the settled logic of the administration that dropped the charges, apparently his.
Fifteen boxes of Presidential Records.
Distinct from the classified documents, these were White House records required by law to be transferred to the National Archives at the end of his administration. They were instead transferred to Mar-a-Lago. NARA recovered them in January 2022 after negotiations. Inside were found items marked as classified national security information, which is a way of saying that the president had taken classified materials home in the same boxes as whatever else he was packing, which is the presidential equivalent of bringing office supplies home in your laptop bag, except the office supplies in this case concerned nuclear programs and foreign military capabilities.
Approximately $70 million owed to contractors at the Taj Mahal casino alone.
When the Trump Taj Mahal entered bankruptcy in 1991, the casino still owed approximately $70 million to more than 253 subcontractors and small businesses who had built it. They received, on average, thirty cents for every dollar owed. Trump received, on average, a story about how Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for him, which he has told with evident satisfaction many times since. Forest Jenkins had won a $200,000 contract to install toilet partitions and got $70,000 back after years in bankruptcy court. Beth Rosser’s father ran Triad Building Supplies and waited three years before receiving the same thirty cents. “Trump crawled his way to the top on the back of little guys,” she told the New York Times. Trump subsequently used the unpaid bills as tax deductions, which means the contractors he did not pay also subsidized his future income, making this one of the more efficient thefts in the inventory.
Wages owed to at least 24 categories of workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The USA Today investigation found 24 documented violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act against Trump properties for failure to pay overtime or minimum wage since 2005. Forty-eight servers at his Miami golf resort won overtime suits averaging $800 each. Noel Cintron, Trump’s personal driver for 25 years, sued for unpaid overtime. Juan Carlos Enriquez, owner of The Paint Spot, won a $30,000 judgment against Trump’s Doral resort, watched Trump’s lawyers file to delay the court-ordered foreclosure, and at last report had still not been paid. A jewelry store owner was strong-armed out of his Trump Tower kiosk. A West Palm Beach chandelier company was sued by Trump to avoid paying half of a $34,000 bill. Lawyers who helped Trump fight contractors later found themselves in payment disputes with Trump, which is the kind of outcome that should be available as a warning on the intake form.
In Atlantic City contractor circles his nickname was Mr. 50%. He would pay a small down payment, complete the work, and then refuse to pay the remainder. Over 3,500 lawsuits across three decades. At least 60 from contractors claiming they were stiffed. The New Jersey casino regulator who oversaw his Atlantic City years told the New York Times: “He put a number of local contractors and suppliers out of business when he didn’t pay them. So when he left Atlantic City, it wasn’t, ‘Sorry to see you go.’ It was, ‘How fast can you get the hell out of here?’”
The phrase “priming the pump.”
In May 2017, Trump told The Economist: “Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good.” The American Heritage Idioms Dictionary traces the phrase to the late 1800s. It was first applied to government economic stimulus in the 1930s. Trump was born in 1946. He did not invent it. He has not returned it.
Several paragraphs of Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC address.
Melania Trump’s speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention contained passages lifted near-verbatim from Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention address, including: “Because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.” Obama, eight years earlier: “Because we want our children, and all children in this nation, to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.” The Trump campaign initially denied any plagiarism. Chris Christie said 93 percent of the speech was different, which is not the defense he believed it to be. A speechwriter eventually accepted responsibility. Melania had previously said she wrote it largely herself. The paragraphs have not been returned, as paragraphs are difficult to return.
The high-end silverware.
Per Haberman and Swan’s Regime Change, White House staff began monitoring the president’s trash because he was throwing away high-end White House silverware. Items were additionally moved from the Center Hall into the president’s bedroom. When staff gently noted that some of the objects being relocated were items his wife had personally selected, he made clear he did not care. The silverware’s current location is not confirmed. It is possibly in the trash. It is possibly in Florida. The distinction between these two locations, in the context of this inventory, is not as significant as it might appear.
The credit for a $35 insulin cap, corporate job announcements, F-35 savings, and the economic recovery.
The insulin cap was passed under Biden. The Ford, GM, Intel, and Fiat Chrysler job announcements predated his election, in some cases by years. The F-35 savings were in motion before he took office. The economic recovery he claimed to have engineered began under Obama and continued in his direction because recoveries do not stop at inauguration day. He claimed credit for zero commercial aviation deaths in 2017, a record that had been building for nearly a decade before he arrived. He claimed credit for NATO partners increasing their defense spending, describing money that had not yet materialized as “pouring in.” It was not pouring in.
None of this credit has been returned. Credit, like paragraphs, is difficult to return, and the president has not indicated any intention to try.
The housing stock of thousands of Black families in New York.
In 1973, the Department of Justice sued Trump Management, Donald Trump, and his father Fred for systematically discriminating against Black renters across their properties. Investigators found that rental applications from Black applicants were marked with a “C” for “colored” and steered to less-white buildings, that Black prospective tenants were told no vacancies existed while white prospective tenants were shown available units, and that employees had been told the company “discouraged rental to blacks” and that they were “not allowed to rent to black tenants.” Four Trump agents admitted to using the code. Three doormen testified to being instructed to lie to Black applicants about rental prices and availability. The government called it one of the most significant race bias cases of the era. Trump countersued the federal government for $100 million, lost, settled without admitting guilt, and has described the outcome as a total victory ever since, which is, at minimum, a consistent application of his accounting methods.
The 2020 presidential election.
On November 3, 2020, Donald Trump lost the presidential election to Joe Biden by 306 to 232 electoral votes and by more than 7 million popular votes. He declared himself the winner the same night. He has not conceded. He pressured state election officials to “find” votes, organized a fake elector scheme in seven states, filed or supported 62 legal challenges of which 61 failed, and delivered a speech on January 6, 2021, that sent a crowd to the United States Capitol while the certification of the results he lost was underway. He watched from the White House on television. He has described the election as stolen and has called himself the true winner every day since, which makes this the most ambitious item in the inventory and the only one for which he was subsequently returned to the Oval Office.
It is also the only item whose acquisition required the deaths of seven people, the injury of approximately 140 police officers, the evacuation of the United States Congress, and the temporary suspension of the constitutional transfer of power.
The election has not been returned. Its current owner is disputed only by the man who lost it.
This inventory is partial. New items are acquired regularly. Updates will be issued as the record requires.
He’s a hoarder. Loves anything that is five finger discount.
I think many, maybe most, of us believe that Dumpty stole the 2024 election. His giving it back can't be expected, but we should take it back.