President Trump made more than 500 trades in August in newly revealed deals valued in the tens of millions of dollars, including at major technology companies whose executives have become frequent guests at the White House.
According to a new ethics disclosure, Trump made at least 20 trades – a mix of buys and sells – at Nvidia (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), SpaceX (SPCX), Alphabet (GOOG), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Dell (DELL) and Microsoft (MSFT).
The new revelation was released Thursday, the same day Trump is scheduled to appear at the “New Gilded Age Summit” in Washington, where he will present medals to the executives of these seven companies.
The president is set to present the National Medal of Science to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su, according to the White House.
Additionally, Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, are expected to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
“The Trump Administration is grateful for the contributions of these incredible leaders in science and technology,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Liz Huston said in a statement.
The new records unveiled Thursday show a still high velocity of trading – particularly in technology stocks – in the president’s account.
In total, Trump reported 517 transactions in August, a slower pace than in previous months, when the president’s accounts often contained more than 1,000 transactions. Trump has disclosed more than 9,200 transactions in various documents so far during the first eight months of 2026.
The president’s brokerage accounts are managed by his company, the Trump Organization, which makes the trades and says they are overseen by third-party financial institutions without any input from Trump or his family.
“Neither President Trump, his family, nor the Trump Organization have any role in selecting, directing, or approving specific investments,” the Trump Organization said in a statement.
The most significant disclosure in Thursday’s release concerns the purchase of Meta (META) shares valued between $5 million and $25 million.
The document also shows dozens of deals valued between $1 million and $5 million from big names including Microsoft, McDonald’s (MCD), Comcast (CMCSA), ConocoPhillips (COP) and Abbott Labs (ABT.NE).
The president’s account also purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX debt in the form of senior unsecured notes, the company’s inaugural bond offering announced in June.
Trump sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Advanced Micro Devices stock, his only transaction in that company in August.
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