US President Donald Trump just diversified his tech-heavy portfolio with a bizarre new asset. According to Futurism, the politician bought a stake in a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant chain. The market suspects a massive fat-finger error that misdirected capital away from a promising AI hardware supplier.
A bizarre trade
Recent tax filings show Trump has been aggressively accumulating Big Tech bags. His investment portfolio recently welcomed shares of giants like Nvidia, Apple, and Dell. All these buys perfectly fit the logic of a macro bet on the artificial intelligence boom.
However, his latest trade completely breaks the pattern. The politician allocated anywhere between $1 million and $5 million into Kura Sushi USA, the American arm of a Japanese firm operating 91 conveyor-belt sushi joints across the US.
The fat-finger theory
This weird pivot quickly caught the attention of the Japanese community. Traders on Yahoo Finance message boards started digging into the motives behind the move.
The prevailing theory is that Trump, or his trust manager Donald Trump Jr., simply mixed up the tickers. Users suspect the real target was Tokyo-based Fujikura, a major producer of fiber-optic and computer hardware.
"The corporation is pumping right now on the back of the AI boom, and Trump could have easily confused the similar-sounding Kura and Fujikura, ultimately dumping millions into a sushi chain," forum members speculated.
The US president himself is notoriously anti-raw fish.
"Does Trump even care about sushi? I always pictured him eating steak and hamburgers every single day," Japanese investors joked on the boards.
Kura Sushi shares immediately reacted to the Trump investment news with a 5.4% pump. Representatives from the Trump Organization have yet to comment on the situation.
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