Trump Made Big Stock Trades In SpaceX, Palantir And Tech Companies In June

BreakingBusinessBreaking NewsTrump Made Big Stock Trades In SpaceX, Palantir And Tech Companies In JuneByZachary Folk,Forbes Staff. I cover breaking news.Follow AuthorAug 23, 2026, 11:46am EDTToplinePresident Donald Trump made more than 1,000 stock trades in June, according to an ethics filing published on Saturday—including buying stock in SpaceX over a week after its IPO and trading major tech and defense stocks doing business with the U.S. government, including Palantir.The president made over 1,000 stock transactions, according to the most recent disclosure form released on Saturday.Getty ImagesKey FactsThe stock trades were published by the Office of Government Ethics, listing over 1,000 individual sales and purchases of shares in June—although the form does not provide an exact value of each transaction, instead listing a range.Trump’s largest single transaction was the June 22 sale of shares of a Vanguard exchange traded fund, offloading between $5 million and $25 million of the ETF.The other major trades were in major American financial services stocks, including a purchase between $1 million and $5 million of Berkshire Hathaway, and similarly valued purchases of Visa, Mastercard and Cintas.Trump bought and sold shares of the same company multiple times—for example, he sold shares of Palantir twice, including a sale worth up to $1 million on June 18, but he also bought shares of the company for smaller amounts three times, including a purchase valued between $100,001 and $250,000 on June 24.Trump’s accounts also purchased and sold stock in major American tech companies like Meta, Broadcom, Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia.He also notably bought SpaceX stock worth between $15,001 and $50,000 on June 23, about 11 days after its initial public offering, as the company is poised to make billions of dollars through government contracts for satellites, the Wall Street Journal reported. if (!window.cnxel) { window.cnxel = {}; window.cnxel.cmd = []; var iframe = document...