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Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally
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Key Points:
- President Trump's investment accounts purchased hundreds of stocks, including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, and Alphabet, the day before he announced a 90-day pause on tariffs in April 2025, a move that caused the S&P 500 to jump nearly 10%.
- These stock purchases, worth up to $12.8 million in a single day, were not publicly disclosed until more than a year later in a 927-page financial disclosure filed with the Office of Government Ethics.
- Federal ethics law requires executive officials to report stock transactions over $1,000 within 45 days, but Trump failed to file these periodic transaction reports for the trades made throughout 2025, only paying late filing fees capped at $200.
- Ethics experts warn that nondisclosure of such trades undermines public trust and raises concerns about potential insider trading or manipulation of markets by senior officials with access to sensitive economic information.
