President Donald Trump's increasingly aggressive intervention in the U.S. technology sector has come even though his financial disclosure forms show significant holdings in some of the companies most directly affected by his efforts, including Apple and Nvidia.
Trump's latest investment filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics showed that he owned between $615,000 and $1.3 million in Nvidia shares at the end of last year, and $650,000 to $1.35 million of Apple stock.
Nvidia and Apple have both recently benefited from special concessions Trump has made to tech companies. This week he confirmed that he was allowing Nvidia, the world's most valuable public company, to resume lucrative sales of artificial intelligence chips to China in exchange for a 15% cut of resulting revenue for