Trump promoted companies on Truth Social days after buying their stocks

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/07/16/us/trump-stock-sales-truth-social-invs-vis

President Donald Trump hopped on Truth Social last year to share some “very big and exciting news.” Nvidia, the computer chip manufacturing behemoth, had just announced plans to build AI supercomputers in the United States.

“All necessary permits will be expedited and quickly delivered” to Nvidia and similar companies, Trump vowed in the April 15, 2025 post to his more than nine million followers.

What the president didn’t disclose at the time was that days earlier, he had purchased between $200,000 and $500,000 of the company’s stock.

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betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 35d (3 replies)

Okay, yeah, it's blatant corruption but are groceries more affordable, is the Dow over 50,000, and can you eat a fast food taco without getting a month-long case of the drizzleshits?

No, no, and no? Damn, that's crazy.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 8 pts · 35d (2 replies)

At least we’re not stuck with Biden’s gas prices.

chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d

Thank God for that.

Checks local gas prices

Wait a minute.....

bedifferent@mastodon.social · 3 pts · 34d

@SatansMaggotyCumFart @betterdeadthanreddit True and instead we have a 34 felony count thug, a rotten scotus 6, and ass kissing oligarchs.

It's whataboutism and I prefer not living in a country run by a gov mafia.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 35d

trump is doing anything he wants. He's got all of the "fuck You" Goya money.

Dryad@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 35d (1 reply)

Maybe one day there’ll be accountability and consequences again. Just maybe.

Kirp123@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 35d

For Trump? Only if hell exists.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 35d (1 reply)

Most transparent administration in history folks!

bstix@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 35d

Well, it is pretty fucking obvious what they're doing, I'll give them that, but the question is why they're allowed to do so.

Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 35d (1 reply)

Good news! Soon you can buy access to the API feed for the pedophile's twats in order to trade instantly.

This unprecedented deal allows hedge funds to instantly profit off of the self dealing announcements coming from the MOST CORRUPT REGIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 35d

Time to start DDoS-ing everything Trump touches.

Leather@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d

It a little shitty CNN didn't comment who broke the story. https://popular.info/p/the-smoking-guns-in-trumps-new-financial