Donald Trump bought more than $ 100 million in bonds and debt titles, since entry to the position, in January 2025, according to the calculations of the CNBC American television channel, based on a report by the United States Government Ethics Office, published on August 12.
The president of the United States bought debt titles issued by local communities and public services (gas and water distributor, schools, hospitals …) but also commercial obligations such as Meta, Home Depot and T-Mobile, in which Donald Trump’s political and economic decisions have a financial impact, which raises the question of a conflict of interest.
The Government Ethics Office report, 33 pages, lists 690 transactions produced by Donald Trump since January 20, the date of its entry into Dial as president of the United States.
A personal fortune of $ 5.5 billion
Politicians in office, whose president are in the hands of US law to declare the transactions they make in the Government Ethics Office. The report shows that Donald Trump bought between $ 500,000 and $ 1 million in bonds issued by T-Mobile, Unitedhealth (in which Warren Buffet has just made a bet) and Home Depot. He also bought Facebook debt titles between 250,000 and 500,000 dollars.
Donald Trump has a personal fortune of $ 5.5 billion, according to Forbes magazine. His fortune has more than duplicated since the end of his first term in 2020. He then amounted to $ 2.1 billion.
The 45 and 47th President of the United States is regularly accused of conflict of interest, although as president he is exempt from certain regulations that apply to federal officials in this area. Before him, all the presidents had still chosen to sell their financial investments before their office.
Source: BFM TV
