Posted on 08/24/2025 9:44:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
U.S. President Donald Trump has been on a multimillion-dollar bond-buying spree since taking office in January, investing in debt issued by local authorities, gas districts and major American corporations.
Across 33 pages of filings with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, or OGE, dated Aug. 12, the president outlined 690 transactions that have taken place since he took office. The documents were made public on Tuesday.
According to CNBC calculations, the purchases had a total value of at least $100 million, assuming the lower value end listed for each disclosed transaction.
By law, the U.S. president, vice president and other select officials must periodically declare “reportable transactions” to the OGE. The precise value of these dealings does not have to be reported.
The extensive lists filed earlier this month show that, over the course of this year, Trump has bought bonds sold by various entities, including local U.S. governments, as well as gas districts, water supply districts, hospital authorities and school boards.
Trump also bought debt issued by an array of big-name companies. The documents point to purchases of between $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of bonds issued by T-Mobile U.S., United Health and Home Depot each in early February. Later that month, he procured debt issued by Facebook and Instagram parent Meta , worth between $250,000 and $500,000.
The White House did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment.
Companies, governments and other groups issue bonds to raise capital to carry out projects, fuel growth, refinance existing debt or to bolster financial stability. Investors who purchase the bonds receive interest payments — either fixed or variable — over an agreed period, along with the return of the full loan amount at the end of that period.
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DemocRATS cannot stand that President Trump made his $$$$ the old fashioned way. He EARNED IT.
That he is investing his own $$$ in America is just fine.
Pelousy recently stated that her husband handles all of their insider trading deals.
President Trump also does not take his presidential salary. What democRAT has ever done that?
I am in favor of blind trusts for all U.s. government elected and presidential appointed officials - removes all possibilities of actual, as well as mere allegations of, unethical conditions between government actions & policies and companies business decisions.
Aint no such thing as a blind trust. The politician would just phone his brother to do the transaction for him.
Something like a 2 week wait for activity on any owned investments might be better. If I vote for a legislation on a stock, I cannot pbone my broker about that stock for 2 weeks.
“Something like a 2 week wait for activity on any owned investments might be better. If I vote for a legislation on a stock, I cannot pbone my broker about that stock for 2 weeks.”
Same problem as what you said - the person won’t call their broker at all, any time; they’ll call a relative who will call their broker during your “two week” limit. And the problem is the unethical action may not be done within two weeks after some legislative action - it can be done much earlier when the Congress critter or other federal official knows for sure the action, policy of legislation is going o go through.
> Something like a 2 week wait for activity on any owned investments might be better. <
I had my own ideas about this. But your idea is better.
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It wouldn’t matter if your brother phoned, because your stock can’t move until 2 weeks are up.
However, I can see that you could still have your brother move his own stock based on your information.
Bonds or bond funds? If PDJT is buying bonds in full and holding to maturity then he is early...FedGov deficits will force rates higher in the future. If he is buying bond funds/bond indexes/exchange traded bond funds then that could be considered Insider Trading as he is planning on replacing Powell at the Fed and dropping interest rates which would boost his bond fund/index/exchange traded fund prices/profits.
It has never worked this way for Congress. There is no vote on legislation and then a phone call for an investment. There’s not even an anticipation of voting and making the phone call before the vote. Neither of those scenarios are valid.
Traditionally the way this works is indications of how legislation will be written triggers the phone call. This could be how a bill emerges from committee. It could be awareness of what lobbyists are pushing in which direction. It’s pretty much never making a phone call after a vote thinking that you’re going to be faster than the rest of the market.
Congress it is truly insider information. It is sitting in closed committee meetings, seeing which direction the wind is blowing in there, and making the phone call.
So you can see how a two-week delay does nothing. The starting point of the two week delay is probably a month after things are actually decided.
Presidents who didn’t take the presidential salary:
Washington (He took it in his second term)
Hoover
Kennedy
Trump
$100mm of bonds is pocket change for Trump.
He’s spending 3x that on the White House ballroom.
Silly.
As an entrepreneur, Trump was cash-poor and in and out of trouble with each turn in the economy. Following the 2008 Financial Crisis, Trump put his properties - and Trump Chicago in particular - into robust, long-term financing. Nowadays, it looks as though Trump is reaping the benefit in terms of solid cash flow.
I am a bit surprised that his investment portfolio is so heavily into debt (municipal bonds and the like). Maybe this is because he is actually too busy as President to actively manage his investments. Or maybe it’s because of actual or perceived conflicts of interest. A third possibility is that he had to put a portion of his wealth into a form that was acceptable by New York State as a bond for the big, giant penalties that state assessed against him (which have now been thrown out by an appeals court).
Bond funds sell shares in a pool of bonds that they invest in. If Trump is naming the companies and municipalities that he is buying bonds of then it obviously is not bond funds. Reading Comprehension.
Fascinating, I never knew that, except for Trump.
For your listening pleasure...
“Come and get your low-price peace bonds
Step right up and get ‘em while they last
(Get ′em while they last) A bargain! A bargain!”
“Bonds” from The Rothschilds: A Musical
https://youtu.be/zhZ5Yjx9X5I
I thought presidents had to place all there investments in a blind trust while in office.
PELOUSY’S HUBBY CANNOT TRANSACT A GAY BAR PICKUP
I don’t think anyone likes politicians making money in positions of authority. Making 2.5 billion in 7 months is excessive no matter who.
Ah man you made me read the entire article (against FR tradition!!)...yeah looks like individual bonds...mostly corporate & some state/local governmental...read & comprehended sir! 😆
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