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Absolutely. Every single government deal made for the next two years is going to profit Trump personally to some extent. That's why he ran a second time, because there's no better way to monetize everything you do than being the president of the United States.
Hell, Obama makes a cool half a mil just for standing at a podium for 30 minutes and talking.
I say two because, historically, it's a near certainty that a president who enters office with Congress will lose control at the mid-terms. It happened to Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump. Trump will have four years as POTUS, but only two of them with total power.