New reporting from NOTUS reveals that Donald Trump has turned the White House into his personal trading floor, buying and selling millions of dollars’ worth of stock in technology companies and government contractors while his administration handed out billion-dollar contracts and favorable regulatory decisions to those very same companies.
A sitting president is using the most powerful office in the world to enrich himself, making stock trades that align with government actions his own administration controls, all while working-class Americans watch their earnings get wiped away by the highest inflation in four years.
Even more outrageous, Trump traveled to China this week with a hand-picked group of Wall Street titans whose companies sit in Trump’s own stock portfolio. The very same people helping to make Trump richer traveled alongside him on a diplomatic trip that will directly shape the business environment in which their companies operate.
Here is what we know, according to new reporting from NOTUS:
- Trump made more than 3,600 individual stock and financial trades in just the first three months of 2026
- Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of Nvidia stock on February 10, one week before Nvidia announced a major processing deal with Meta
- The Commerce Department approved Nvidia chip sales to China one week after Trump purchased between $500,000 and $1 million in Nvidia stock on January 6
- Trump purchased at least $740,000 worth of AMD stock in the same quarter that the Commerce Department authorized AMD to sell chips to Chinese customers
- Trump purchased at least $260,000 worth of Palantir stock in the first quarter of 2026, and in February, Palantir struck a billion-dollar agreement with the Department of Homeland Security for deportation surge software
- Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million in Axon stock on February 10, and two weeks later, ICE announced a plan to spend $220 million on Tasers over five years
- Trump also traded stock in Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, and Alphabet while his administration maintained regulatory authority over all of them.
- Trump also traded stock in several companies led by executives traveling with the president on his trip to China this week. Among them: Apple, Meta, GE Aerospace, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Blackrock.
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Published: May 15, 2026 | Last Modified: May 20, 2026