u/Lower_Ad_1146 ·
Reddit — r/stocks
· July 02, 2026 at 12:28
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The post highlights reporting that President Trump and/or his accounts made over 3,600 stock trades in Q1 2026, including buying 327 stocks the day before he announced a 90-day tariff pause.
The author’s thesis is that this timing amounts to market manipulation or insider trading, leveraging policy decisions for personal financial gain.
Quality assessment: This is a news aggregation post (sourced from CBS News and Sludge) rather than original DD. It raises serious ethical/legal questions but lacks granular trade-by-trade analysis or a specific investment thesis.
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[https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/trump-stock-trades/](https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/trump-stock-trades/)
Also, the day before he announced a 90-day rollback of most tariffs, his accounts reportedly bought 327 stocks.
[https://readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trump-bought-hundreds-of-stocks-the-day-before-he-paused-tariffs-and-sparked-a-historic-rally/](https://readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trump-bought-hundreds-of-stocks-the-day-before-he-paused-tariffs-and-sparked-a-historic-rally/)
The next day, he paused the tariffs and markets ripped higher.
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-told-investors-to-buy-on-social-media-hours-before-his-tariff-pause-rose-stocks-raising-questions-about-manipulation](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-told-investors-to-buy-on-social-media-hours-before-his-tariff-pause-rose-stocks-raising-questions-about-manipulation)
He makes policy decisions. His accounts buy/sell before the policy decisions become public.
Call it whatever you want, but Trump making policy decisions and trades at the same time smells like market manipulation from inside the White House.