{"id":2605108,"date":"2026-05-20T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-purchased-between-1-million-and-5-million-in-sushi-stock\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:29:16","slug":"trump-purchased-between-1-million-and-5-million-in-sushi-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-purchased-between-1-million-and-5-million-in-sushi-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million in sushi stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-purchased-between-1-million-and-5-million-in-sushi-stock%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2605108&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that President Donald Trump bought between $1 million adn $5 million worth of stock in Kura Sushi USA, a Japan-linked conveyor-belt sushi chain, which helped lift the company\u2019s shares by more than 5%. It notes the purchase appeared among thousands of trades listed in his latest Office of Government Ethics filings and was one of his biggest buys of the year at that point.<\/p>\n<p>The investment prompted discussion in Japan, including online speculation about whether the purchase was intentional or mistaken for a different stock. A market analyst also suggested Trump\u2019s stake could boost Kura Sushi\u2019s share appeal among retail investors in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, the piece highlights other first-quarter stock purchases (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-to-know-about-president-trumps-visit-to-china\/\" title=\"What to know about President Trump&#039;s visit to ...\">including major tech<\/a> and consumer companies such as Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple) and mentions that Trump\u2019s trading has continued to draw criticism. Sen. Elizabeth Warren accused him of corruption tied to Nvidia holdings after the administration lobbied China regarding advanced AI chips. A Trump Organization spokesperson responded to Reuters by saying the president\u2019s assets are managed exclusively through independent, discretionary accounts run by third<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/docs-biden-ginned-up-fbi-probes-of-law-abiding-opponents\/\" title=\"Docs: Biden Ginned Up FBI Probes Of Law-Abiding Opponents\">-party institutions<\/a>, with Trump receiving no advance notice and no role in choosing trades.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD vance defended Trump by arguing the president does not personally trade stocks and that his holdings are managed by others. The article also points to proposed legislation that would ban lawmakers and the president from stock trading, noting that while it advanced out of a Senate committee, passage is unlikely under a Republican-controlled Congress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> purchased between $1 million and $5 million of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stock-market\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3745\">stock<\/a> in Kura Sushi USA, a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/japan\/\">Japan<\/a>-linked conveyor-belt sushi chain, helping send the company\u2019s shares up by more than 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Kura Sushi USA, tied to <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">the Japan<\/span>-based Kura Sushi chain, stood out among roughly 3,700 trades disclosed in the president\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/extapps2.oge.gov\/201\/Presiden.nsf\/PAS+Index\/405E4EC4E27BE8D185258DF7002DD1C0\/$FILE\/Trump%2C%20Donald%20J.-05.08.2026-278T(2).pdf\">latest filings<\/a> with the Office of Government Ethics. It was one of Trump\u2019s largest purchases of the year so far.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4576342\/trump-israel-prime-minister\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump jokes he\u2019ll \u2018go to Israel and run for prime minister\u2019 after leaving White House<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4576449\/trump-calls-republicans-replace-senate-parliamentarian\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump calls on Republicans to replace Senate parliamentarian<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4576203\/trump-wishes-spencer-pratt-well-in-los-angeles-mayoral-race\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump wishes Spencer Pratt \u2018well\u2019 in Los Angeles mayoral race<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The sushi investment raised speculation in Japan, where some social media users questioned whether the purchase was intentional. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>\u201cA new theory is emerging; trump accidentally bought Kura sushi, confusing it with FujiKura (AI stock),\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Msamalam\/status\/2056970782799171803\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Msamalam\/status\/2056970782799171803\">suggested<\/a> one X user. <\/p>\n<p>A market analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ eSmart Securities <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/markets\/stocks\/articles\/trumps-kura-sushi-bet-sends-114846338.html\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/markets\/stocks\/articles\/trumps-kura-sushi-bet-sends-114846338.html\">said<\/a> Kura Sushi\u2019s U.S. business has been performing strongly and suggested that Trump\u2019s ownership stake could boost Kura Sushi shares among retail investors in Tokyo trading. <\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s first-quarter trades included purchases of Nvidia, Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft, Procter &#038; Gamble, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Amazon, Costco, Dell, Boeing, Uber, and Apple.<\/p>\n<p>His broader holdings also included stakes in companies such as Disney, Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros, DoorDash, Chipotle, Pinterest, Alphabet, Philip Morris, Altria, Honeywell, eBay, Home Depot, Walmart, and Meta, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosures renewed criticism over Trump\u2019s investments while serving in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"8767\">White House<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elizabeth-warren\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"250\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a> (D-MA) accused Trump of corruption over his Nvidia holdings after his administration lobbied <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"232\">China<\/a> to purchase advanced <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1658\">artificial intelligence<\/a> stock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat,\u201d the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenWarren\/status\/2055319099664691540\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenWarren\/status\/2055319099664691540\">senator wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cIt turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA\u2019s stock. The President\u2019s corruption is a national security disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Trump Organization told <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/trump-ethics-filing-reveals-thousands-trades-tied-us-corporate-securities-2026-05-14\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/em>  that the president\u2019s stock holdings \u201care maintained exclusively through <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >fully discretionary accounts independently managed<\/a> by third-party financial \u200binstitutions with sole and exclusive authority over all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/banks-trillions-in-climate-financing-pledges-are-a-bailout-hazard-experts-warn\/\" title=\"Banks\u2019 Trillions in Climate Financing Pledges Are a Bailout Hazard, Experts Warn\">investment decisions<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that neither Trump nor his family plays \u201cany role in selecting, directing, or approving specific investments\u201d and that they \u201creceive no advance notice of trading activity and provide no input regarding investment decisions or portfolio management \u200bof any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a Tuesday press briefing, Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"7658\">JD Vance<\/a> pushed back on questions about Trump\u2019s stock trades, saying that the president \u201cdoesn\u2019t sit at the Oval Office on his computer on his, like, Robinhood account, buying and selling stock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4574967\/jd-vance-tells-reporter-have-objectivity-trump\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4574967\/jd-vance-tells-reporter-have-objectivity-trump\/\">VANCE TELLS WHITE HOUSE REPORTER TO \u2018HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF OBJECTIVITY\u2019 ABOUT TRUMP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a wealthy person,\u201d Vance continued. \u201cHe\u2019s not making these stock trades himself.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"31\">Congress<\/a> has introduced legislation that would ban lawmakers and the president from trading stocks. The bill advanced out of the Senate committee last year, but it is unlikely to pass in a Republican-controlled Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump bought $1M-$5M in Kura Sushi USA stock, shares rose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4195,"featured_media":2605111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP25288450369199.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[32319,9177,32603,34556,80018],"class_list":["post-2605108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-donald-trump","tag-investment","tag-political-news","tag-stock-trading","tag-sushi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP25288450369199.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605113,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605108\/revisions\/2605113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}