Trump acquired stock in companies like Walt Disney, JPMorgan, and Netflix, even as he threatened them publicly

Nestled among the thousands of banal trades President Trump disclosed past week are transactions successful companies the president has fiercely criticized.

As conscionable 1 example, the president's relationship traded Walt Disney (DIS) shares worthy up to astir $6 cardinal successful the archetypal 4th of 2026 portion his multi-pronged feud with the "House of Mouse" raged on.

Trump besides had important vulnerability to the banking assemblage — JPMorgan (JPM) successful peculiar — adjacent arsenic helium was suing the slope for $5 cardinal implicit the contented of "debanking."

The trades were portion of Trump’s caller 113-page disclosure, which spanned much than 3,700 trades made nether the president's name, and they opposition with the thousands of different trades successful companies the president was much keen to praise.

Trump's relationship is managed by his company, the Trump Organization, which said trades are overseen by third-party fiscal institutions without immoderate input from Trump oregon his family.

"Neither President Trump, his family, nor The Trump Organization plays immoderate relation successful selecting, directing, oregon approving circumstantial investments," the Trump Organization has said successful a statement. "They person nary beforehand announcement of trading enactment and supply nary input regarding concern decisions oregon portfolio absorption of immoderate kind."

The Trump enactment didn't respond to a petition for remark from Yahoo Finance connected the trades successful Walt Disney, JPMorgan, Netflix, and different companies that person recovered themselves successful Trump's crosshairs.

Heavy trading successful Disney and the banking sector

Trump's criticisms of Disney agelong backmost years, from lambasting the company's DEI initiatives to calling again past period for Jimmy Kimmel to "be instantly fired by Disney and ABC." Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an antithetic aboriginal reappraisal of licenses for Disney-owned tv stations.

Yet Trump's brokerage relationship made 13 chiseled trades of Disney banal during this period, including purchases of $100,000 to $250,000 successful each of the 3 months of the 4th (the disclosure lone indicates banal income successful wide ranges).

The president is besides a prolific holder of banking assemblage stocks, adjacent arsenic helium has repeatedly said the assemblage "debanked" him.

On Jan. 22, Trump filed a suit against JPMorgan and CEO Jamie Dimon, seeking $5 billion, alleging that the slope had denied him banking services for governmental reasons aft the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the United States Capitol.

Trump's relationship traded the company's banal heavy during this period, with 11 transactions worthy betwixt $500,000 and $1.2 million. The lawsuit, which the slope says has “no merit,” remains pending.