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Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that there is nothing suspicious about President Donald Trump's recent trading disclosures, claiming Trump had nothing to do with the more than 3,700 transactions made under his name in the opening three months of 2026.
"The president doesn't sit at the Oval Office on his computer on his Robinhood account, buying and selling stocks," Vance told reporters, according to CNBC. "He has independent wealth advisors who manage his money. He is a wealthy person. He has had success in business."
In a statement, a Trump Organization spokesperson attributed all trading activity to automated systems run by outside financial institutions, asserting that the president and his family are entirely removed from investment decisions and are given no prior notification of any trades. Separately, White House spokesman Davis Ingle issued a statement declaring that Trump's assets are held in a trust overseen by his children and that no conflicts of interest exist.
One reporter noted that Trump had publicly promoted a number of the companies that appear in the trading disclosures, including in social media posts where he named their stock ticker symbols. Palantir $PLTR +0.09% Technologies was among the examples raised. Records show Trump accumulated at least $260,000 in Palantir stock over the first quarter, and the following month — as the company's shares were coming off their steepest weekly decline in over a year — Trump took to Truth Social to tout its battlefield capabilities by name, ticker symbol included.
