President Donald Trump bought millions of dollars of stock in drug companies, defense contractors, and tech firms during the first three months of this year, according to new financial disclosures released this week. It’s astounding to watch a sitting president profit in such a nakedly corrupt way. But there is one potentially funny trade in the new disclosure. Trump purchased somewhere between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock in Kura Sushi, the conveyor belt sushi chain, on Feb. 2. These financial disclosure forms don’t give a precise number and allow ranges to be listed, showing as much as $100 million in trades, according to the Associated Press. The purchase stuck out to people online, who have started to speculate that maybe it wasn’t an accident. After all, the Trump regime isn’t known for its attention to detail. Remember when Rudy Giuliani gave a press conference at a business called Four Seasons Total Landscaping in 2020? Obviously, Rudy’s people were confused and had been given instructions to book the Four Seasons hotel.
Some people are speculating that perhaps Trump (and the people managing his investment portfolio) intended to buy something like FujiKura, an electrical equipment company that also makes golf equipment, or Kura Oncology, which develops cancer treatments and has the stock ticker KURA. Kura Oncology’s stock is currently up 9% on the day, perhaps because so many people online are speculating about Trump’s odd stock purchase. FujiKura is down 8% on the day, but that slide kicked off yesterday after a three-year forecast dashed investors’ hopes.
