Eric Trump says family assets invested in 'broad market indexes' — Trump's own disclosure lists 3,642 individual trades Rudro Chakrabarti May 17, 2026 10 min read PLTR AMD DELL NVDA ORC On May 14, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics released two disclosure filings showing President Donald Trump executed 3,642 stock transactions during the first quarter of 2026, with a cumulative value between $220 million and $750 million. The filing, signed by Trump on May 8, shows 2,345 purchases and 1,296 sales, mostly of individual stocks. (1)(2) Presidents are exempt from federal conflict-of-interest statutes that bar other executive-branch employees from acting on matters where they hold a financial stake.
The STOCK Act of 2012 requires the president to disclose individual securities transactions but does not prohibit them, and no federal investigation has been announced over the new filings. Must Read Thanks to Jeff Bezos, you can now become a landlord for as little as $100 — and no, you don't have to deal with tenants or fix freezers. Here's how Robert Kiyosaki says this 1 asset will surge 400% in a year and begs investors not to miss this 'explosion' Dave Ramsey warns nearly 50% of Americans are making 1 big Social Security mistake — here's how to fix it ASAP Trump is the first sitting president in modern history to disclose this volume of individual securities trading while in office.
Since Lyndon Johnson pioneered the use of a presidential blind trust in 1963, modern presidents have placed their assets in a blind trust managed by independent trustees, held them in index funds and Treasuries, or — in Jimmy Carter's case — liquidated their assets entirely. Earlier presidents weren't required to file periodic transaction reports like this one, so part of the contrast is structural. (2) The disclosure has drawn responses from the Trump family and members of Congress. The president's own Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, who has been publicly calling for a ban on congressional stock trading since August 2025, has not addressed it.
What's in the filing The Office of Government Ethics released two Form 278-T reports covering Jan. 1 through March 31, 2026. The 113-page filing logs 3,642 individual transactions across 90 days, roughly 58 trades per market day, with 2,345 purchases and 1,296 sales. Cumulative value falls between $220 million and $750 million; OGE filings report broad ranges, not exact figures. (1)(2) The pace is a sharp departure from earlier in the term, when Trump's portfolio was concentrated in municipal and corporate bonds, including more than $337 million in bond purchases reported in prior filings.
A Financial Times analysis of weekly transaction volume shows the activity barely registering through 2025 before exploding in the first quarter of 2026. (3) Story Continues According to NOTUS reporting on the filings, the timing of several trades coincided with administration policy decisions. The OGE filings do not specify whether Trump, his family, or third-party brokers placed the trades; the Trump Organization has previously said all trading decisions are made by independent managers without family input. The trades NOTUS flagged include: Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA): 15 separate transactions, per Rep.
Don Beyer's review of the filing, including a $500,000 to $1 million purchase on Jan. 6 — one week before the Commerce Department approved the sale of certain Nvidia chips to China on Jan. 13. A second purchase of $1 million to $5 million was recorded on Feb. 10, a week before Nvidia announced a major processing-power deal with Meta. (4)(5) AMD (NASDAQ:AMD): A $50,000 to $100,000 purchase on Jan. 6, followed by Commerce Department authorization on Jan. 13 for AMD to sell chips to Chinese customers. Total AMD purchases for the quarter: at least $740,000. (4) Oracle (NYSE:ORCL): Multi-million-dollar purchases in early 2026, during a period when the Trump administration was working on a deal allowing Oracle to continue operating TikTok in the U.S. (6) Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR): Trump bought between $247,000 and $630,000 across the quarter, including at least seven purchases of Palantir stock in March alone totaling up to $530,000.
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