Via DeanBlundell – “CNN published an investigation Thursday showing Donald Trump promoted more than 20 companies on Truth Social days after buying stock in those same companies — sometimes while announcing government actions that would directly benefit them. Not vibes. Not a hot take. Dates, dollar ranges, disclosure filings.

• Nvidia. April 2025: Trump posts “very big and exciting news” to his nine million followers about Nvidia building AI supercomputers in America and vows that all federal permits will be fast-tracked. What he doesn’t mention: days earlier, his accounts bought between $200,000 and $500,000 of Nvidia. The man expediting the permits owns the stock the permits pump. Then in January 2026, his managers buy up to $1 million more of Nvidia — and the very next week his administration relaxes export controls so Nvidia can sell its prized AI chips to China. Buy first. Deregulate second. Repeat.
• Tesla. More than 50 purchases last year, at least $4 million, including buys made days before he turned the White House South Lawn into a Tesla showroom with Elon. Then came the divorce — Trump threatening Tesla’s subsidies, musing about deporting Musk — while still buying Tesla stock the entire time, including a $500K–$1M buy in July. Publicly torching the company, privately long the company. That’s not politics. That’s a position.
• Palantir. Hundreds of thousands in purchases through March, then a Truth Social post in April praising Palantir’s “war-fighting” chops — with the stock ticker included. A sitting President posting a ticker symbol like a Discord pump group admin. Palantir’s federal contracts, meanwhile, nearly doubled to $970 million.
• American Eagle. Buys $15K–$50K of the stock on July 31. Four days later, posts about the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad tell the world the jeans are selling out. The President of the United States. Shilling mall denim. Because he owns it.
• Eli Lilly, Oracle, Amazon, Dell. Purchases that coincided with favourable GLP-1 decisions, the TikTok deal Oracle needed, and — I swear — an Amazon buy the same day a federal trial against Amazon began. The referee is betting on the game. Both teams. Every quarter.

And the volume is deranged: 3,642 trades in Q1 2026 alone — roughly 58 trades per market day — worth between $220 million and $750 million. Eric Trump says it’s all “broad market indexes.” The disclosure his dad signed lists thousands of individual stock picks. Someone’s lying, and it’s the one whose last name is on the filing.” It’s a huge conflict of interest,” Ethics attorney Virginia Canter said, arguing that Trump is funneling official information through “a private channel in which he has a private interest.”