{"id":76,"date":"2026-05-20T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:41:33","slug":"trump-discloses-thousands-of-stock-trades-some-in-companies-directly-influenced-by-his-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n

NEW YORK \u2014 Call him the Trader in Chief.<\/p>\n

Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government.<\/p>\n

Read more UAE says air defense blasted six drones over the past two days<\/a><\/p>\n

Among the Trump trades in a recent report filed with a federal ethics agency was as much as $6 million in Nvidia, whose advanced chips Trump approved for sale to China last year. His portfolio also scooped up stocks of several U.S. military suppliers impacted by the Iran war, including Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he were defense secretary, he would be committing a crime,\u201d said Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics adviser in the George W. Bush administration and a big critic of congressional trading, too. \u201cTechnically, he can do this, but it is a fundamental breach of trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. law bans federal employees from holding financial assets that could be impacted by their policy work, but there is a carveout for the president.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Trump family business said the president\u2019s portfolio is handled by third parties that have \u201csole and exclusive\u201d authority to make investment decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither President Trump, his family, nor The Trump Organization plays any role in selecting, directing, or approving specific investments,\u201d spokesperson Kimberly Benza said in a statement. \u201cThey receive no advance notice of trading activity and provide no input regarding investment decisions or portfolio management.<\/p>\n

Ethics officials have pointed out that just the knowledge of what\u2019s in his portfolio is problematic because it could impact the president\u2019s decisions on everything from health policy to government contracting to war.<\/p>\n

The stock trading report filed with the federal Office of Government Ethics runs more than 100 pages, and shows possibly more than $100 million changing hands over three months as stocks were bought and sold at a rapid-fire pace – an average of 50 trades every day markets were open.<\/p>\n

The report shows more purchases than sales, but the precise ratio is impossible to determine because exact figures for each transaction are not given, just ranges.<\/p>\n

Trump has traditionally had very little invested in the stock market relative to his net worth, but that could be changing along with his ballooning wealth, which has included a big cash infusion.<\/p>\n

Read more Trump orders Treasury to issue banking guidance for illegal immigrants<\/a><\/p>\n

Since he became president again, the Trump Organization has taken in tens of millions in upfront fees from overseas developers that want to put his name on resorts and hundreds of millions from cryptocurrency sales, mostly anonymous, making it impossible to know if the purchaser were trying to curry favor with the president.<\/p>\n

All recent U.S. presidents have dumped their stocks before assuming office, put their money in broadly diversified funds or set up a \u201cblind\u201d trust so they couldn\u2019t even know what they owned.<\/p>\n

The blind trust route was taken by George H.W. Bush, then Bill Clinton. George W. Bush, the son, dumped his stocks. Barack Obama was in broadly diversified mutual funds. Joe Biden didn\u2019t trade.<\/p>\n

In addition to Nvidia, the president\u2019s portfolio includes shares in Apple, Boeing and Tesla. The CEOs of all four companies accompanied Trump on his visit to China recently.<\/p>\n

The portfolio also includes Intel, the chipmaker in which the government took a 10% stake last year.<\/p>\n

Among many others, the portfolio of the fast-food-loving president recently added stock in Shake Shack, Papa John\u2019s and Cheesecake Factory.<\/p>\n

Many of the trades were in shares of U.S. companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government. All modern U.S. presidents before Trump avoided trading in stocks because it looked dirty given their power to lift or crush the fortunes of the companies behind them, so this is another case his thumbing his nose at precedent.<\/p>\n

All modern U.S. presidents have stayed away from trading in stocks because it looked dirty given their power to lift or crush the fortunes of the companies behind them.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is not only breaking that precedent, he\u2019s smashing it up.<\/p>\n

A report from a federal government ethics agency shows that President Trump\u2019s portfolio bought and sold more than 3,500 times in the first three months this year. It\u2019s a record impressive for both the number of transactions and for many of the trading targets – U.S. companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his personal decisions.<\/p>\n

Read more Finland points to Arctic as Trump questions value of NATO<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Call him the Trader in Chief. Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[14,79,78,77,80],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-trump-central","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-dynamics","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-northrop-grumman","tag-nvidia"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies - Home Buyer Relocation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies - Home Buyer Relocation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Call him the Trader in Chief. Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home Buyer Relocation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-20T10:41:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b2ac56955b020950324cad4c6c27b42a\"},\"headline\":\"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-20T10:41:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76\"},\"wordCount\":818,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Donald Trump\",\"General Dynamics\",\"Lockheed Martin\",\"Northrop Grumman\",\"Nvidia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Trump Central\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76\",\"name\":\"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies - Home Buyer Relocation\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-20T10:41:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b2ac56955b020950324cad4c6c27b42a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":700},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?p=76#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Home Buyer Relocation\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b2ac56955b020950324cad4c6c27b42a\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/homebuyerrelocation.com\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies - Home Buyer Relocation","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies - Home Buyer Relocation","og_description":"Call him the Trader in Chief. Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government.","og_url":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76","og_site_name":"Home Buyer Relocation","article_published_time":"2026-05-20T10:41:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":700,"url":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b2ac56955b020950324cad4c6c27b42a"},"headline":"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies","datePublished":"2026-05-20T10:41:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76"},"wordCount":818,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg","keywords":["Donald Trump","General Dynamics","Lockheed Martin","Northrop Grumman","Nvidia"],"articleSection":["News","Trump Central"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76","url":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76","name":"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies - Home Buyer Relocation","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg","datePublished":"2026-05-20T10:41:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b2ac56955b020950324cad4c6c27b42a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/78fc0f3e4b125cb2c36075150c4c6d2e.jpg","width":1200,"height":700},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=76#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policies"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/","name":"Home Buyer Relocation","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b2ac56955b020950324cad4c6c27b42a","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com"],"url":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}