Recent disclosures show that Trump’s money managers engaged in nearly 3,700 stock trades for his accounts in the first quarter of 2026, an average of 60 trades a day, and amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of transactions. The sheer number of trades is staggering, but more importantly, many of the purchases were of companies that Trump publicly lauded or were affected by government policy.
Examples:
- Bought at least $1 million in Nvidia and AMD stock. A week later, the Commerce Dept approves Nvidia and AMD doing business in China.
- Bought millions of dollars in Dell stock. 9 days later, Trump tells an audience to go buy Dell Computers.
- Bought up to $50,000 in shares of Thermo Fisher. On the same day, he visits them and says publicly he wants other pharmaceutical companies to work with Thermo Fisher.
- Bought more than $100,000 in Apple, and the same day he publicly praises Apple.
- Bought $15k-$100k of Micron stock, then calls into Fox News the next day and praises the company.
- Bought at least $500,000 in Palantir stock prior to a billion dollar contract with DHS, also praises it on Truth Social.
Sources: The Rachel Maddow Show, Axios, Mother Jones, NOTUS