Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

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2:24 PM PDT · August 24, 2026

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Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks afte

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2:24 PM PDT · August 24, 2026

Image Credits:

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images

Sean O'Kane

Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

President Donald Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of SpaceX shares on June 23, according to a financial disclosure first reported by

, two weeks after the record-setting IPO of Elon Musk’s company.

It’s not clear what price Trump paid for the shares, but by that point they had fallen from their highs of over $200. SpaceX shares were trading in the mid-$150 range on June 23. At the end of trading on Monday, shares closed at the IPO price of $135, possibly putting the president’s stake underwater.

Trump and Musk are close, despite a brief falling out last summer that involved the businessman accusing the president of withholding the

Department of Justice’s files

on Jeffrey Epstein because of how often Trump’s name appears in them. SpaceX has been hoovering up an

increasing amount of government contracts

and benefiting from the Trump administration’s deregulatory stance, according to a recent Wall Street Journal analysis.

White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Reuters that the president’s stock portfolio is managed by third-party financial institutions and replicate “recognized indexes, such as the Schwab ​1000.” SpaceX lobbied popular indexes to change their rules to allow for faster inclusion

ahead of its IPO

, which means many people likely own some of the company’s stock

even if they don’t know it

.

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