By Alison Durkee
Publication Date: 2026-05-15 20:07:00
Topline
President Donald Trump’s son Eric defended his father Friday as the president faces scrutiny for making millions of dollars worth of stock trades over the last few months—as his administration had dealings with many of those companies—with Eric Trump claiming it’s “blatantly false” to suggest any of the family’s securities trades pose a conflict.
President Donald Trump (R) and his son Eric Trump (L) walk to Marine One before departing from the White House on April 10.
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Key Facts
A financial disclosure listing the president’s securities trades between January and March came out on Thursday, showing him buying and selling shares of companies like Nvidia, Palantir, Meta and Paramount Skydance.
Eric Trump responded Friday to a post by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who criticized the president for bringing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on his recent trip to China in an apparent effort to help Nvidia sell AI chips to Beijing—all while the president apparently held Nvidia stock.
The president’s son claimed the Trump family’s assets are entirely controlled through a blind trust and their securities are in market indexes, writing on X, “To suggest that individual stocks are being bought or sold, at the discretion of any member of the Trump family, would be a lie and blatantly false.”