While investors and businesses spent the early days of April 2025 fretting over the future of global trade and the economy, US President Donald Trump was busy buying into the stock market sell-off he created, EDnews reports via CNBC.
Trump made 327 stock purchases on April 8, 2025, according to a CNBC analysis of the president's annual financial disclosure for 2025 that includes trades, income and liabilities and was released on Tuesday. That made April 8 his 11th busiest day for stock buying last year, more than five times the daily average of roughly 62 for the calendar year, according to the CNBC analysis.
Trump's buying spree on April 8 centered on some of the largest public companies in the world.
He bought between $100,001 and $250,000 in shares of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia each that day, the disclosures show.
All five stocks are members of the Magnificent Seven, a group of mega-cap technology stocks that has been credited with propelling the market to record highs over recent years. All five also saw big rebounds after Trump's tariff policy change, with investors breathing a sigh of relief that the companies' costs wouldn't immediately jump.
Apple, for instance, dropped 5% on April 8, its fourth-straight negative day. The iPhone maker surged more than 15% in the next session, which would go down as its best trading day since 1998.
Nvidia, meanwhile, shed more than 1% of its value on April 8. The chipmaker jumped nearly 19% the next day, meaning it gained almost one-fifth of its market value in one session.
The April stock trades are just one part of a 927-page disclosure that shows $2.24 billion in revenue in 2025, according to a CNBC analysis, including hundreds of millions of dollars from crypto, more than $290 million from major golf and club properties and over $86 million in legal settlements. Trump also continues to collect income from branded merchandise and has accepted numerous gifts, such as sports tickets.
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