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Since 2025, Trump Made More Stock Trades Than All 535 Congress Members Combined (truthout.org)

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President Donald Trump made nearly 30,000 stock trades since his return to office, marking a far higher volume of trades than all 535 members of Congress combined, a new Bloomberg analysis finds. Between his inauguration in January 2025 and the end of June, Trump and his team made nearly 28,700 trades, his financial disclosures show. That amounts to roughly 80 trades per market day for nearly…

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[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

Yeah, people rip on Obama for drone strikes but Trump did it more in his first term than Obama and somehow Trump was considered a peaceful president 🤷

[-] MrNobody@quokk.au 3 points 6 days ago

Oh shit, let’s give Obama a free pass because someone did worse later.

Keep moving them goals, soon you’ll be defending Trump when the next Republican does worse.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Who said that? Obama deserves his criticism for the drone strikes (and is the first thing you think about when you think about drone strikes) .. and Trump is worse on drone strikes ... yet Trump is seen as a peaceful president (until Iran).

Follow along. I know it's hard for you.