In the long history of power and markets, few questions have proven more enduring than whether those who shape the world can truly be separated from those who profit from it. President Trump's June 2025 financial disclosure — revealing over a thousand securities transactions worth up to $263 million in a single month — places that ancient tension at the center of American public life once more. The White House insists that algorithmic, independently managed accounts remove any possibility of conflict, yet the trades cluster with uncanny frequency around the very market-moving events a sitting