President Donald Trump logged 3,642 stock trades during Q1 2026, according to a 113-page OGE Form 278-T disclosure released this week. The filing reveals a sharp pivot away from the bond-heavy posture seen in earlier 2026 reports.
The volume averages roughly 60 trades per session. That pace breaks with a near-unbroken stretch of blind-trust arrangements stretching back to Lyndon B. Johnson.
A Break From Decades of Blind-Trust Practice
Most U.S. presidents since Johnson placed personal holdings into qualified blind trusts to limit conflicts. Jimmy Carter went further and liquidated his peanut farm. Barack Obama held Treasury notes and index funds. Joe Biden used a blind-trust arrangement during his term.
The current filing covers 113 pages. It lists individual purchases of Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Broadcom (AVGO), Amazon (AMZN), and Apple (AAPL).
Each fell in the $1 million to $5 million range. Hundreds of separate sales range from $15,000 up to $25 million per line item.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly backed a ban on congressional stock trading. Lawmakers in both parties have echoed that position.
The same arguments increasingly apply to executive-branch trading. The 2012 STOCK Act requires officials to disclose such trades but does not forbid them.
Holdings Mirror Administration Priorities
The portfolio leans toward sectors that have benefited from administration actions. Semiconductor positions in Nvidia, Broadcom, and AMD align with the White House push on domestic chip capacity.
The buys also overlap with a year of shifting tariffs aimed at Asian supply chains. Financials including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Visa overlap with the deregulatory posture pursued through 2026.
Buys of Coinbase (COIN), Robinhood (HOOD), and SoFi (SOFI) sit inside an active pro-crypto policy window. That window has seen executive orders, a federal Bitcoin reserve, and a Trump Accounts retirement program.
Robinhood serves as the program’s initial trustee. Critics flag the overlap as a conflict risk. The White House has defended the filings as full STOCK Act compliance.
The most contested example involves Dell Technologies (DELL). Filings record multiple seven-figure DELL purchases beginning February 10. On May 8, the president publicly praised the company at a White House event.
The stock rose roughly 12% the same day. The Dell family separately pledged $6.25 billion to the Trump Accounts program in December 2025.
DELL Stock Performance on May 8. Source: TradingViewWhether the pattern triggers a formal review will depend on House and Senate ethics committees and the OGE.
The disclosure satisfies current reporting law, yet it widens an already active debate over executive-branch trading rules.
That debate gained urgency after years of scrutiny aimed at congressional portfolios.
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