Vance Defends Trump Stock Disclosures at White House Briefing

Vice President JD Vance defended President Donald Trump against questions about stock trading activity shown in the president's latest financial disclosures during a White House press briefing on Tuesday. The filings, made public Thursday, showed more than 3,700 transactions in the first three months of 2026 alone.

They include securities of companies Trump has discussed at events and in social media posts, including purchases of Palantir in March.

"The president doesn't sit at the Oval Office on his computer on his, like, Robinhood account, buying and selling stocks," Vance said. "He has independent wealth advisors who manage his money. He has had success in business.

" "Trades are executed and portfolios are balanced through automated investment processes and systems administered by those institutions," the spokesperson said. " "All of us believe that nobody should be taking proprietary information gained from public service and buying and selling stocks," he said.

A reporter noted that recent polling shows Americans increasingly describing the president as corrupt and compared Vance's prior support for banning public officials from trading individual stocks with the disclosures.