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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Chelsie Napiza

Elon Musk Appears To Shield POTUS As X Suddenly Bans Popular Account Tracking Trump's Highly Lucrative Stock Trades

An X account tracking Donald Trump’s reported trades was suspended within a day, prompting questions over why a similar Nancy Pelosi tracker remains online. (Credit: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson)

An X account that spent a single day exposing Donald Trump's billion-dollar trading record vanished almost as quickly as it appeared, and the platform's owner, Elon Musk, is now fielding pointed questions about why.

The account, titled 'Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker,' launched on Wednesday, 1 July 2026, and was gone by Thursday, suspended for what X described only as a breach of its rules. Its posts drew on the president's freshly released federal ethics filing, which logged more than £740 million ($1 billion) in cryptocurrency income for 2025.

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