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Trump Stopped Talking About These Media Stocks, but his Portfolio Didn’t Stop Trading Them

Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, quoted by Fortune.

Comcast is the second-most heavily traded name in Trump’s financial portfolio. Trump spent much of 2025 attacking the company, yet it’s the one he hasn’t said a word about this year, just as the company is positioned to be walking into a major regulatory moment.

“Does President Trump’s silence on Comcast mean anything in the context of the fact that his financial accounts traded their stock numerous times? Just the fact that you have to ask the question points to the problem,” Ann Skeet, the senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, told Fortune

 

Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, quoted by Fortune.

 

Ethics
media, leadership