One of Wall Street’s most well-known gurus, Jim Cramer, became very vocal Monday after President Donald Trump’s latest stock-trading spree made its way into a televised conversation with his colleagues at CNBC.
FINDINGS published by the US Office of Government Ethics last week found that Trump in the first quarter of 2026 made more than 3,700 stock transactions, including more than 30 stock purchases that were each worth $1 million or more.
like pointed out by the Financial Times, Trump’s investments included transactions involving Teslanvidia, AppleMeta, Visa, Read, BoeingQualcomm and GE Aerospace, whose executives all accompanied the president on his trip to China last week.
When CNBC co-host Carl Quintanilla brought up these stories during Monday’s edition of “Squawk on the Street,” Cramer spent ten straight seconds mumbling incoherently.
That prompted co-host David Faber to reassure viewers that “we have no technical difficulties here,” even as Cramer appeared short-circuited.
Reporter Ryan Grim said Cramer’s reaction to mentioning Trump’s trade was understandable given that some of the companies whose shares he traded have been direct beneficiaries of the president’s illegal war with Iran and other policies.
“Kramer here is experiencing what should be the normal reaction to Trump’s active insider trading on his decisions.” noted Gloomy. “Just sputtering wordlessly.”
Journalist Judd Legum published a Monday ANALYSIS of Trump’s stock trades, in which he identified multiple instances when the president bought shares of companies shortly before — or in some cases, the very same day — that he publicly singled them out for praise.
Specifically, Legum revealed that Trump bought tens of thousands of dollars in shares in biotech firm Thermo Fisher Scientific on the same day he toured one of its manufacturing facilities and hundreds of thousands of dollars in shares in Apple on the same day he gave a speech calling it “a great company,” while Tok said a good job then-CEO.
Trump also bought shares in Micron Technology and then described it as “one of the hottest companies” during an interview with Fox News just a day later.
And nine days after buying millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell, Trump gave a speech in Georgia where he told his audience to “go out and buy a Dell computer.”
In analyzing the trade, Legum explained how Trump has destroyed every remaining handrail that prevents US presidents from using their office to personally enrich their wings.
“If Trump wanted to legally remove himself from investment decisions, he could do so by creating a qualified blind trust,” Legum wrote. “Instead, before you go back to The White HouseTrump transferred his assets to an estate managed by his son, Donald Trump Jr. There is no legal or practical obstacle preventing Trump from engaging in the management of his assets.”
Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) warned Trump that the details of his various stock trades would eventually come to light.
“This smacks of open, criminal insider trading,” Goldman has written in one social media post. “Worse, Trump is personally profiting from his illegal deportation ring. Since we know Congress The Republicans will pretend they never saw this and do nothing, anyone involved in these trades must save their records for my investigation in January 2027.”
… elsewhere in the world of strife
Also on Monday, 93 House Democrats launched an effort to block Trump’s $1.77 billion taxpayer-funded deal with the Internal Revenue Service, through which the president could reward supporters, including people convicted of sedition and violent crimes during January 6Capitol Uprising 2021.
Democratic lawmakers joined one amicus brief presented in Trump v. IRS before Judge Kathleen Williams in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Their action followed the Trump administration’s announcement of the creation of a so-called “Anti-Gun Fund” as part of a deal to scrap a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over a leak of the president’s tax returns.
Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche described the fund as “a legal process for victims of law and gun violence” allegedly carried out by US Department of Justice (DD) long The Biden administration “To be heard and seek redress.”
However, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) CALLED The deal “pure fraud and highway robbery,” noting that Trump oversees the agency that agreed to settle with him.
“No president can fabricate a bogus $10 billion in damages case against the government so he can be both plaintiff and defendant and then ‘settle’ his bogus case against himself as a judge,” Raskin said.
“This case is nothing more than a racket designed to take $1.7 billion of taxpayer dollars out of the treasury and pour it into a huge slush fund for Trump at the DOJ to distribute to his private militias of insurgents, rioters and white supremacists, including those who brutally beat police officers in the January 6 scheme,” he added.
The friendly filing of Democratic lawmakers seeks to block the deal, which could use taxpayer funds to compensate pro-Trump figures such as the nearly 1,600 Capitol Hill defendants charged or convicted of crimes related to the Capitol attack, including conspiracy to riot, assault on law enforcement officers and other felonies with a dangerous weapon.
“Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS was never about justice, it’s another self-enrichment scheme at the expense of hard-working taxpayers,” House Select Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said Monday.
“Now, with the court poised to weigh in in just days, Trump is trying to cut a deal and strengthen his position as judge, jury and executioner,” Neal added. “Detailed reporting of Trump’s interest in a multi-billion dollar fund for J6 criminals and permanent immunity from any further IRS scrutiny only deepens the stench of cORRUPTION.
Matt Platkin and Norm Eisen, attorneys representing Democrats, said Monday: “It’s against the law for the president to actually sue himself — and then settle for a large amount. The court has the power to stop these shenanigans, and it should.”
Trump was accused for rewarding political violence when he granted a full pardon to the January 6 insurgents on the first day of their return to The White House. According to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washingtondozens of pardoned Capitol attackers have since been charged or convicted of serious crimes, including child sex crimes, rape, grand theft, burglary, home invasion, weapons violations, death threats against public officials and fatal DUI incidents.
The president and other MAGA figures have accused the Biden administration of “weaponizing” the DOJ against Trump and his supporters. Meanwhile, Trump has targeted political opponents; Federal officials involved in his investigation and prosecution for alleged election interference and misuse of classified documents; pro-Palestine activists; universities and corporations resisting his crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion; journalists; civil society groups; and others.
Progressive advocacy groups and legal experts joined Democratic lawmakers in condemning Trump’s resolution.
“Donald Trump and his compromised ones Department of Justice have created a slush fund to make payments to Trump supporters and friends.” Public Citizen co-presidents Lisa Gilbert and Robert Weissman said in a STATEMENT. “This scheme constitutes the creation of a payment fund on January 6.”
Brett Edkins, managing director of policy and public affairs at Stand Up America, said that “as Americans struggle with the rising costs fueled by his economic mismanagement and war with Iran, Donald Trump teaching a master class in grift.”
“He has negotiated with himself to create a $1.7 billion tax fund with no oversight, no transparency and no accountability,” Edkins continued. “Simply put, Trump is stealing $1.7 billion dollars from taxpayers to distribute to himself, his friends, his donors, or anyone he deems loyal enough — including supporters who were convicted by a jury of assaulting police officers on January 6, 2021.”
“This is truly unprecedented corruption,” he added, “and the American taxpayer will foot the bill.”
