Donald Trump executed thousands of financial transactions involving stocks and bonds of major US companies throughout the first quarter of 2026. His trades included technology and defense firms such as Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Boeing, Apple, Intel, and Palantir [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].
Estimates place the cumulative value of his stock transactions between $220 million and $750 million. Individual trades ranged from modest $1,000 purchases to large sales and buys between $5 million and $25 million [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. For example, on February 10, 2026, Trump sold $5 million to $25 million worth of Microsoft, Meta Platforms, and Amazon stock [1, 2, 4]. Around the same date, he reportedly purchased $1 million to $5 million in Nvidia shares [3, 4, 6].
His holdings and trades overlap with his administration’s policy actions, including approval for Nvidia chip sales to China and a $1 billion Department of Homeland Security contract awarded to Palantir after Trump bought significant shares and promoted the company publicly [2, 5, 6]. Nvidia’s CEO joined Trump on a business delegation to China in May 2026 following those stock purchases [2, 3, 5, 6].
Trump does not place his assets in a blind trust. Official disclosures show his holdings are managed by his children, though the White House says trades are made independently and track market indices [1, 2, 4, 5, 6]. Eric Trump, however, has denied active management of individual stock trades by the family, claiming the assets are held in a blind trust. He stated, "To suggest that individual stocks are being bought or sold, at the discretion of any member of the Trump family, would be a lie and blatantly false" [5, 6].
White House spokesman Davis Ingle defended the president, saying, "There are no conflicts of interest. President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public — which is why they overwhelmingly re-elected him to this office, despite years of lies and false accusations against him and his businesses from the fake news media" [4]. Opponents criticized Trump’s financial activities: Senator Elizabeth Warren called it "a national security disaster" [6].
Trump’s financial disclosures, publicly filed on May 14, 2026 by the US Office of Government Ethics, do not detail precise amounts or security types for each transaction or specify who exactly executed the trades on his behalf [1, 2, 3, 4]. Eric Trump estimates Donald Trump’s net worth at $6.2 billion, including $1.3 billion in liquid assets such as securities [5].
