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Trump Bought $1 Million–$5 Million Stake in Kura Sushi, Shares Rose

Marked as a 'solicited' trade in his ethics filing, the purchase sent Kura Sushi stock up about 5 percent and deepened questions over adviser-driven presidential investments.

FILE: Individuals sit outside Kura Sushi at Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. President Donald Trump invested millions of dollars in the revolving sushi restaurant chain, according to recent financial disclosures released on May 14, 2026. 
Customers dine at the global flagship store for Kura Sushi, a Japanese conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain, in the popular tourist area of Asakusa in Tokyo on January 22, 2020. © Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images
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Overview

  • The Office of Government Ethics filing shows President Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million of Kura Sushi USA Class A stock on Feb. 2, a transaction disclosed in a report he signed on May 8.
  • News of the holding coincided with an immediate market reaction that lifted Kura Sushi’s U.S. shares roughly 5 percent after the filing became public.
  • The filing lists the Kura transaction as 'solicited,' which indicates a broker or investment adviser recommended the buy, and the Trump Organization says his accounts are in fully discretionary third-party management.
  • Social media and some outlets have speculated the purchase could be an accidental mix-up with similarly named companies, but no public evidence has confirmed an error and the organization has not changed its account-management explanation.
  • The Kura purchase was one of about 36 million-dollar-range buys within hundreds of millions of trades reported for the quarter, prompting renewed ethics concern and possible political pressure for limits on presidential stock trading.