Vice President JD Vance says "President Trump doesn't sit at the Oval Office on his computer on his Robinhood account buying and selling stocks. That's absurd. He's not making the stock trades himself."
Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."
President Trump executed 3700 securities transactions during the first quarter, averaging nearly 58 trades for every U.S. trading day. This translates to roughly nine trades every hour or about one trade every seven minutes during market hours, per YF.
President Trump: "There's no oil coming out of Kharg Island. People are finding other places to buy oil, like Texas. So I don't want to say we're making a fortune, because if I say that, they're gonna say he forgets about the little man with the $4 gasoline."
President Trump says it's good to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students in the U.S. and for China to purchase U.S. farmland; otherwise, colleges and farm prices would collapse: "I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture."
President Trump says again that American's financial situations are less important than the Iran war: "That's right, that's a perfect statement, I'd make it again."
The U.S. and China have agreed to cut tariffs on select goods in a move to boost global trade. China’s Commerce Ministry confirmed it’s also willing to address Trump’s concerns about American agricultural imports. This is the first real sign of de-escalation in months.
President Trump: "People that own their homes, we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."