{"text":[[{"start":9.5,"text":"Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions involving securities in major American companies including Nvidia, Palantir, Paramount and Boeing in the first three months of 2026."}],[{"start":25.3,"text":"Regulatory filings published by the US Office of Government Ethics show transactions involving Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, Meta, Visa, Citi, Boeing, Qualcomm and GE Aerospace."}],[{"start":37.8,"text":"Top executives of all of those companies accompanied the US president on his trip to Beijing this week to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping."}],[{"start":45.9,"text":"Trump wrote on Truth Social that it was an “honor” to have the business leaders on the trip, including “the Great Jensen Huang”, a reference to the chief executive of semiconductor giant Nvidia. "}],[{"start":57.15,"text":"The filings show 15 transactions relating to the chipmaker in the first three months of the year. "}],[{"start":62.949999999999996,"text":"“I will be asking President Xi, a Leader of extraordinary distinction, to ‘open up’ China so that these brilliant people can work their magic,” the president wrote on his social media site on Wednesday, referring to the US company executives."}],[{"start":null,"text":"
"}],[{"start":76.64999999999999,"text":"The number of transactions disclosed on Thursday far exceeds Trump’s trading activity during the first year of his second term as president. It also marks his first major sale of assets since returning to office, including between $5mn and $25mn each of Meta, Amazon and Microsoft securities, FT analysis shows."}],[{"start":98.64999999999999,"text":"The filings come as Trump and his family have come under scrutiny for their investments in companies that stand to be impacted by the policies of his administration."}],[{"start":107.85,"text":"The Trump Organization said: “President Trump’s investment holdings are maintained exclusively through fully discretionary accounts independently managed by third-party financial institutions with sole and exclusive authority over all investment decisions.”"}],[{"start":123.35,"text":"It added: “Trades are executed and portfolios are balanced through automated investment processes and systems administered by those institutions. Neither President Trump, his family, nor The Trump Organization plays any role in selecting, directing, or approving specific investments.”"}],[{"start":140.54999999999998,"text":"The latest transactions, which are grouped by ranges in value, as opposed to specifying exact figures, were collectively worth between $211mn and $687mn."}],[{"start":152.85,"text":"In the highest bracket, for purchases worth between $1mn and $5mn, the filings showed transactions relating to companies including Adobe, Workday, Uber and Costco, as well as tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple."}],[{"start":169.15,"text":"The documents show that 2,346 securities were purchased in the period, and 1,296 were sold. The filings do not specify whether the transactions involved stocks or bonds, and a number of the filings relate to ETFs or broad index trackers. "}],[{"start":188.4,"text":"Six trades in the filings relate to Intel Corp, a US chipmaking giant whose share price has soared more than 200 per cent so far this year. The US government took a nearly 10 per cent direct ownership stake in the company last year."}],[{"start":204.05,"text":"There were also seven transactions relating to Boeing, including one purchase worth between $1mn and $5mn. US special envoy Paolo Zampolli, who accompanied vice-president JD Vance to Hungary last month, also works to promote Boeing sales overseas."}],[{"start":220.60000000000002,"text":"“Whenever people see me, they want something. They want access to the president,” Zampolli told the FT last month. “I tell them: ‘Buy Boeing.’ If you want to make the president happy, buy Boeing. It’s the simplest thing in the world.”"}],[{"start":235.05,"text":"Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery — the two companies involved in a $110bn blockbuster takeover that is now in the hands of US regulators — both appeared in Trump’s disclosed trades."}],[{"start":246.3,"text":"There were also 17 transactions relating to Netflix, which was pushed out of its own bid for Warner Bros by Paramount’s offer. "}],[{"start":254.45000000000002,"text":"Trump was vocal on the takeover and at times implied that he favoured Paramount’s offer. The president has close ties to Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, whose son heads Paramount Skydance. "}],[{"start":266.35,"text":"Additional reporting by Alex Rogers in Washington "}],[{"start":277.15000000000003,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1778887077_6924.mp3"}