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Trump bought up to $5M in Nvidia stock days before scrapping China AI-chip curbs — and three more times after green-lighting H200 sales
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President Donald Trump's own financial disclosures show he bought Nvidia stock around the time he made China chip decisions that favored the company, according to an analysis reported by the Guardian on Nov. 13.
The anti-corruption group DeKleptocracy found that Trump bought $1 million to $5 million of Nvidia shares in the days before his administration rescinded the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule in May 2025. The rule, close to taking effect, sorted countries into three tiers to keep the most advanced U.S. AI chips away from China. China made up roughly a quarter of Nvidia's sales from 2010 to 2022, and the stock rose right after the repeal was announced. Trump also bought Apple, Meta and Microsoft shares at the time.
After saying in December 2025 that Nvidia could sell H200 chips to China — approved by Commerce in January 2026 — Trump made at least three more Nvidia purchases within days, each worth $250,001 to $500,000. The Council on Foreign Relations warned H200 sales could "supercharge" China's AI factories. "While the country debates how a possible Chinese spy may have manipulated White House policy for one AI company, it must grapple with how Trump's corruption may have motivated him to deliver the entire AI industry's technology to China," DeKleptocracy wrote. The White House has said in past cases that the president's assets sit in blind trusts run by independent firms, so there is no conflict of interest.
The report lands a day after former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned over his relationship with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese asset. The Guardian says Trump was briefed twice on intelligence conclusions about her and did not act. Seoul Economic Daily reported Democrats have started moving toward a formal inquiry. On X, a post saying Trump "was buying Nvidia stock while he dismantled the rules" drew 511 likes. Congress is trying to attach three China chip-control bills to the year-end NDAA.
“Donald Trump’s own financial disclosures indicate he was buying Nvidia stock while he dismantled the rules written to keep the company’s most advanced chips out of China.”
