liz landers reports Donald Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million of Dell shares on February 10, and the stock has risen 142% since that purchase. He later bought Dell three more times in March, while the filings show nearly 4,000 trades between January and March.
The filings put Trump’s total trading volume between $200 million and $700 million. Forbes said about 240 of his largest stock trades topped $250,000, and all of his 10 best buys were tech company stocks.
Dell and Michael Dell
Trump’s Dell purchase stands out because he later used the White House to promote the company. On May 8, after an event with Dell CEO Michael Dell, Trump said, “Go out and buy a Dell,” and the stock closed 11.5% higher that day.
Dell is up 31% since that May 8 remark, adding to the gain that followed the February 10 purchase. The sequence links a personal trade, a public endorsement, and a stock that kept climbing after both.
AMD and Texas Instruments
Trump also bought between $500,000 and $1 million of AMD shares in February, and the stock is up 136% since then. He bought AMD nine more times after that first purchase and sold between $15,000 and $50,000 of the shares in late March.
Texas Instruments was another early buy. Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million of the stock on January 12, and it has risen more than 60% since then. He also bought Jabil shares in February, and Jabil is up 40% since that investment.
Warren's Criticism
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted that “The President’s corruption is a national security disaster” after Trump bought Nvidia stock and then brought Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang along with him to China. Trump’s allies deny the accusations of greed and self-dealing.
The filings leave readers with a narrower but practical question: which trade moved first, and which benefited most after the White House used the same companies as public examples. On the numbers alone, Dell’s February buy and AMD’s repeated purchases are the clearest sign that Trump’s own disclosures and his public remarks moved in the same direction.
