President Donald Trump's wealth, which has grown by $2.2 billion since he began his second term, has become a liability for the entire Republican Party, at least according to one prominent conservative commentator.

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume suggested Monday that the president and his family's rapidly expanding fortune fueled voters' concerns about government corruption as Republicans suffered sweeping losses in last week's midterm elections. Mediaite's Kathryn Wilkens reported on Hume's remarks, which came during Monday's edition of "Special Report."

Anchor Bret Baier highlighted a Fox News poll showing that 55 percent of respondents considered government corruption "crucial" to their congressional vote, while another 36 percent called it a "major factor." Taken together, the figures meant roughly nine in ten respondents rated corruption as at least a "major factor" in their congressional vote. Hume described the figure as a "massive number" and agreed that the issue was resonating with voters.

"When times are tough, and we're going through an economic transformation of an extraordinary degree, and prices are high, even though jobs are plentiful, people are hurting, and that was a big issue in the election," Hume said. "They look at Washington, and they see the president, apparently a rich man to begin with and never afraid to talk about how rich he was and is, suddenly several billion dollars richer, according to Forbes magazine. They see his sons involved in cryptocurrency businesses that are netting them a large amount of money, and they don't like the look of that."

Concerns about the Trump family's enrichment were mounting well before the 2026 midterm results. In October, Catherine Rampell of The Bulwark wrote, "Donald Trump is robbing Americans blind, and even Republicans are starting to notice." She pointed to trades made earlier in the year: "You may recall that back in March, there were some suspiciously timed, uncannily lucrative oil and stock trades. About fifteen minutes before Trump abruptly announced he was retracting some threats against Iran, billions of dollars' worth of contracts were placed on bets that oil prices would fall and the S&P 500 would jump. And those lucky bastards turned out to be right!"

While Rampell leans right, analysts across the political spectrum said corruption was proving to be a major issue for midterm voters. "Corruption is moving the needle whenever voters are focused on the explosion of greed and self-enrichment by Trump and his family—easily the worst in presidential history," Larry Sabato, a political scientist and political analyst, posted on X in October. For the cryptocurrency industry, Hume's remarks carried particular relevance: in his telling, the president's sons' crypto businesses, which he said were "netting them a large amount of money," formed part of a picture voters "don't like the look of."