Financial disclosures from 2025 show he purchased shares of Apple, Amazon, NVIDIA and Meta.
The New York Times delved into Donald Trump’s financial disclosures during the first year of his second presidential term. This is undoubtedly the most profitable period of a president’s term, earning him a personal figure of over $2 billion. Although much of this largesse was obtained through the sale of cryptocurrencies, Trump has also become an investor in big tech. The newspaper reports that on July 23, he purchased up to $5 million in shares of Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Broadcom. It also notes that the purchases were made on the same day the White House released its long-awaited AI action plan.
In January, The New York Times reported that brokerage accounts linked to the Trump family made more than 3,600 trades. But even though the Trump family doesn’t hold its assets in a blind trust, it says it has no say in which companies its brokers buy and sell shares in. The newspaper reports, however, that Trump often made “well-timed” trades, such as an investment in Dell shortly before securing a $9.7 billion defense contract. Like the Times According to reports, Trump was legally obligated to disclose stock purchases of Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and others, but he failed to do so. Due to his repeated omissions, he had to “pay a small fine for not respecting this rule”. It is likely that possible future violations will not be so easy to deal with: in January 2025, Trump said he favored requiring “repeat offenders” US citizens to be forced to leave the United States.
