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(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump made more than 21,000 securities trades in his first year back in office, often in intense bursts tied to market events he created.
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The total dollar value of the trades was somewhere between $600 million and $1.86 billion, according to his financial disclosure for 2025, which lists values in broad ranges. Many of the transactions involve large companies that have business with the federal government.
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Trump averaged 85 trades per market day, an analysis of the report shows. Just 10 days accounted for about a quarter of all trades executed in 2025. Many of those came during heightened volatility on Wall Street after Trump had already announced policy changes.
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There was also dissonance across Trump’s eight separate trading accounts: In more than 200 cases, he bought a stock in one account the same day he was selling it in another.
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The chaotic rhythm and large volume of trading add to an emerging picture of Trump’s finances, which critics and watchdog groups have scrutinized for hints that he may be improperly profiting from the presidency. In the same report, he disclosed earning at least $1.4 billion from crypto and memecoin-related businesses in 2025.
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The president on Wednesday downplayed the amount of money he made, saying he was already wealthy when elected, and he deflected questions from reporters about whether he was inappropriately profiting off the presidency.
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“Purposely, I never speak to any of the people that run the money, but they’re at big institutions, and they invest in whatever they invest,” Trump said at Joint Base Andrews before departing for North Dakota. “You know why I’m profiting? Because the stock market’s going up.”
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The Trump Organization says that the president’s holdings are independently managed by third-party financial institutions that have control over all investment decisions, with trades executed through automated, model-based portfolios and direct indexing strategies. Trump, his family members and his company play no role in making transactions, and receive no advance notice of the trades, according to a company spokesperson.
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Eric Trump, the president’s son and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, has said the assets were in a “blind trust.”
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“To suggest that individual stocks are being bought or sold, at the discretion of any member of the Trump family, would be a lie and blatantly false,” he wrote in a post on X in May after Trump disclosed more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter of 2026.
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At the time, some on Wall Street said they found that frequency of trading to be surprising.
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About one-tenth of Trump’s disclosed non-cash investment assets last year were in excepted investment funds — things like mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that are broadly diversified and don’t require detailed asset-by-asset reporting.
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