US President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure shows he or his investment advisers executed more than 3,700 stock trades in the first quarter of 2026, with cumulative value estimated between $220 million and $750 million by Reuters. A significant portion of that money was invested in four technology giants: Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Nvidia. The volume far exceeds Trump's previous disclosures; he reported 380 transactions for the fourth quarter of 2025, mostly municipal debt purchases.
Details of the Filing
The 113-page filing, posted Thursday on the US Office of Government Ethics website, lists transactions in broad dollar ranges rather than exact figures. February 10 stands out as the busiest day. On that day, Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million in Nvidia shares and sold between $5 million and $25 million each in Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. These three sales, along with a similarly sized sale of the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, represent his four largest transactions of the quarter. Across the three months, 36 separate transactions were in the $1 million-to-$5 million range.
Timing of Nvidia and AMD Trades Raises Questions
The Nvidia trade is drawing the most scrutiny. According to NOTUS, the February 10 purchase came seven days before Nvidia announced a major processing-power deal with Meta. An earlier Nvidia buy worth between $500,000 and $1 million, dated January 6, occurred about a week before the Commerce Department cleared certain Nvidia chips for export to China. Similar patterns appear with other stocks. An AMD position of $50,000 to $100,000 was opened on January 6, a week before Commerce gave AMD the same China export approval. Trump also began building a Palantir stake worth at least $260,000 on the same date, weeks before the company secured a roughly $1 billion Department of Homeland Security contract related to mass deportation work. A $1 million-to-$5 million Axon purchase on February 10 preceded ICE's February 24 announcement of a $220 million Taser order covering approximately 17,800 devices over five years.
White House Denies Conflict of Interest
The White House has strongly denied any conflicts of interest. Spokesman Davis Ingle told CNBC that the president's holdings are in a trust managed by his children and that there are no conflicts. The Trump Organization echoed this, stating that the trades are conducted through fully discretionary accounts at third-party financial institutions, with neither Trump nor his family selecting or approving individual investments.
Comparison with Predecessors and Penalties
Previous presidents, including George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, used blind trusts to avoid such scrutiny. Federal ethics law requires these trades to be disclosed within 45 days. Trump missed that deadline for his Q1 filings and paid a penalty of $200 for each late disclosure.
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