TLDR
- President Trump’s August financial disclosure reveals 517 securities transactions
- The largest purchase was up to $25 million in Meta stock
- Trump also bought up to $5 million in SpaceX debt two days before signing a new space policy
- He sold shares in companies including AMD, Boeing, Nvidia, and Home Depot
- The White House says the trades are managed independently and not directed by Trump
President Donald Trump has disclosed more than 500 securities transactions from August. The filing shows a mix of large stock purchases, sales, and a new investment in SpaceX debt.
The 18-page disclosure lists 517 total purchases and sales. Federal rules require the values to be reported in ranges rather than exact dollar amounts.
Based on those ranges, the combined trades were worth between $74.3 million and $273.3 million. Purchases made up at least $44.2 million of that total, while sales accounted for at least $30.1 million.
Trading activity in August was lower than in June and July. Both of those months saw more than 1,000 disclosed transactions each.
The Meta Stock Purchase
The single largest trade in the filing was a Meta stock purchase on August 21. It was valued between $5 million and $25 million.
That same day, Trump’s accounts also bought shares in AT&T, ConocoPhillips, Abbott Laboratories, Netflix, and Chevron. Each purchase was valued between $1 million and $5 million.
On the sell side, Trump divested shares in Advanced Micro Devices and Church & Dwight, each worth between $1 million and $5 million. Smaller sales included Boeing, Home Depot, T-Mobile, Datadog, Dell Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, and Nvidia.
Meta did not respond to requests for comment on the purchase.
SpaceX Debt Investment Timing
The disclosure also shows a new investment in SpaceX. On August 18, Trump’s accounts purchased between $1 million and $5 million in senior unsecured notes issued by the company.
The notes carry a 5.35% interest rate and mature in July 2031.
Two days after that purchase, Trump signed a national space transportation policy. The policy calls for the United States to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries each year by 2030.
SpaceX is a major contractor for the Pentagon and NASA. The company is positioned to benefit from policies that expand the commercial launch market.
Trump had already held smaller SpaceX investments earlier in the year. He reported buying between $15,001 and $50,000 in SpaceX shares in both June and July.
The White House said Trump does not direct his trades. Spokesman Davis Ingle said the portfolio is managed through discretionary accounts and computer-based models.
Past presidents have typically divested individual stocks or used blind trusts to avoid conflicts of interest. Trump’s approach has differed from that pattern throughout his second term.
Trump’s 2025 annual disclosure showed more than 21,000 trades across eight accounts holding at least $858 million. That compares with just 86 stock transactions during his first year in office in 2017.
The August filing also shows purchases in Microsoft, McDonald’s, and Comcast, each between $1 million and $5 million, made on August 10.
On August 26, Trump’s portfolio bought shares in Tyson Foods. That was the same day he signed a proclamation expanding low-tariff beef imports by 300,000 metric tons to help ease prices.
Trump’s accounts also continued buying municipal bonds tied to state and local governments, schools, and hospitals during the month.
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