President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image depicting himself day trading Intel stock from $20 to $95, alongside a Truth Social claim of making “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars” on stocks. It was the second time he used the same image style. A nearly identical post last September showed Intel rising from $20 to $30 after the government acquired a 9.9% stake in the chipmaker. Intel Corporation shares closed at $95.80 on September 4 and reached $95.89 two days later, nearly quadrupling from a 52-week low of $24.05. The post comes amid broader scrutiny of Trump’s stock activity: a CNN investigation found he bought shares in 21 companies shortly before posting favorable messages about them on Truth Social. Ethics filings with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) show accounts tied to Trump accumulated Intel and Dell Technologies positions before he praised both publicly; Dell shares have risen more than 300% this year. A similar SpaceX post in August faced scrutiny, although later data showed the stock had begun rising in premarket trading before Trump posted. Presidents can trade stocks while in office, and Trump has not placed his assets in a blind trust, allowing him to see his managers’ transactions. Ethics experts say that arrangement creates potential conflicts. Republican Senator Josh Hawley joined Democrats last year in supporting a bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress and presidents, but Trump criticized the effort as an attack by a junior senator rather than a genuine ethics measure. CNN found that most of Trump’s thousands of disclosed trades were not followed by related Truth Social posts, and found no direct evidence linking the messages to his trading decisions. The government’s 9.9% Intel stake, purchased at $20.47 per share in August 2025, is now worth several times its original value on paper, while ethics watchdogs continue to scrutinize presidential posts near stock gains.