Trump Executes $220 Million in Financial Transactions at Start of Year

Official financial documents revealed that U.S. President Donald Trump conducted securities trading transactions totaling at least $220 million in the early months of this year, according to data published by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE).

The financial data submitted to the office, which oversees monitoring of financial interests of senior federal officials, showed that these transactions involved securities from a number of leading American companies listed on exchanges, though the documents did not identify those companies in detail or disclose the nature of each transaction individually.

U.S. law requires senior executive officials, including the president, to make periodic disclosures of their financial activities to the Office of Government Ethics, as part of the financial transparency system in place within the executive branch.