Trump Bought $12.8M in Stocks Before Tariff Pause Sparked Market Rally

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Delivered the strongest first-year economic performance in modern history, pairing lower inflation and energy costs with tax relief, investment, and America First trade enforcement.

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While the tariffs were imposed on imports from foreign countries, a February 2026 report by the New York Fed highlighted that nearly 90% of the tariff’s increased economic burden was shouldered by U.S. firms and consumers. ... Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base. Liberation Day speech, April 2, 2025

May 31 - Trump says China violated Geneva deal to mutually roll back tariffs and ease curbs on critical minerals exports. China rejects this, accusing the U.S. of "discriminatory restrictive" curbs instead. May 28-29 - United States threatens to revoke visas of Chinese students, while ordering some companies to stop shipping some goods to China. May 10-12 - First round of trade talks in Geneva agrees to 90-day pause on tariffs, cutting to 30% U.S.

Dean Baker, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said that shortly after Trump's election, inflation began to rise as people purchased durable goods, such as cars and appliances, "before they got hit by tariffs" (archived ...

Investment accounts owned by President Donald Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day ahead of his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, ...

In a written reply, Eaton said he needed to hear directly from Scott whether the government would return all of the money it collected between when Trump put what he called "reciprocal" tariffs on most countries in April 2025 and when the Supreme Court struck them down in late February. "It is undisputed that the remedy for this unlawful collection is for the United States government to refund the unlawfully collected duties," the judge wrote. More than 1,000 companies, including large ones like Costco, Goodyear Tire, banana and pineapple distributor Dole Fresh Fruit, and department store chain Kohl's, filed lawsuits to recoup their tariff costs.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump overstepped his authority when he ordered tariffs on imports from nearly every country in the world, using a 1970s emergency statute.