President Donald Trump bought up to $530,000 in Palantir stock in the first quarter of 2026, even as he publicly praised the data analytics firm on Truth Social and its shares moved lower in a market selloff tied to the Iran war. New ethics disclosures published this week by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics and first reported by CNBC show Trump made at least seven separate Palantir purchases in March 2026 alone.
The filings place the trades at between $247,008 and $630,000, with several marked unsolicited. They also show Trump sold as much as $5 million in Palantir stock on February 10, 2026, before turning around and adding to the position weeks later. On April 10, 2026, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Palantir Technologies “has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment” and added, “Just ask our enemies!!!”
The disclosure lands after a volatile stretch for Palantir, whose shares slid during a broader selloff that also came amid mounting scrutiny over reports that its software was being used to help identify targets. Palantir was co-founded by billionaire Trump ally Peter Thiel, and the company has become one of the most closely watched names in the market as investors weigh its defense ties against the ethical and political questions around its work.
Trump’s portfolio was not limited to Palantir. The disclosures show he also bought shares in Nvidia, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon during the first three months of 2026. White House spokesman David Ingle said Trump’s assets are held in a trust overseen by his children, and the article says the holdings are managed through fully discretionary accounts independently run by third-party financial institutions.
The timing leaves little doubt about what the filings show: Trump was buying a defense-adjacent stock while touting it in public, and the paper trail now makes the sequence visible. In the middle of a year marked by war headlines and heavy scrutiny of Palantir’s role in military technology, the question is no longer whether he engaged with the company — the disclosures show he did, repeatedly, and recently.
