The Balance. One day, four records. On November 8, 2024 at 10:05 AM Eastern, Donald Trump posted: I have no intention of selling. The same day, Trump Media's CFO Phillip Juhan sold 320,000 shares for $9,808,000.00, General Counsel Scott Glabe sold 15,917 shares for $512,368.23, and Director Eric Swider sold 136,183 shares for $3,844,446.09: $14,164,814.32 in all. Trump's own filings show no sales. Use arrow keys to step through the four records.
The Balance DJT · November 8, 2024 · four records
The Balance
What you see in three seconds: on one day - November 8, 2024 - Donald Trump posted "I HAVE NO INTENTION OF SELLING!", and three Trump Media officers and directors sold $14,164,814.32 of DJT stock.
Encodings
Four records, one day. Left pan: the Truth Social post, published 10:05:24 AM ET on November 8, 2024, during trading hours. Right pan: three open-market sales reported on SEC Form 4 with transaction date November 8, 2024. Coin-stack height is proportional to sale proceeds in dollars (largest $9,808,000.00).
The beam is level. Nothing here weighs guilt: these sales were made by three officers/directors, not by Donald Trump. Trump's own Form 4 filings show no sales of DJT shares; on December 17, 2024 he moved his 114,750,000 shares to his revocable trust in a transfer the filing states did not involve a purchase or sale.
Form 4 records give the transaction date, not the time of execution; whether the sales executed before or after the 10:05 AM post is not in the record. The sales were disclosed to the SEC on November 12, 2024. None of the three filings carries a 10b5-1 plan footnote or a weighted-average-price footnote.
Nothing here shows that anyone acted against the post's statement: the sales were other people's, the records do not show when during the day they executed, and Form 4 does not say when a sale was decided. Sale amounts are computed gross value - shares x the reported price, before any fees or taxes; the filings do not report net proceeds. Share counts and prices come from the filings themselves.
Datasets
Truth Social post 113447949058695478: Trump Truth Social Archive (github.com/stiles/trump-truth-social-archive), CC0, 29,469 posts (2022-02-14 to 2026-05-02). Post URL: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113447949058695478
SEC Form 4 filings (EDGAR, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., CIK 0001849635), accessions 0001474506-24-000239, -000240, -000238. US government public filings. Swider sale reported through Renatus LLC, controlled by the reporting person, per the filing's footnote.
Design tokens adapted from datapoems.io Clock Bases (MIT License, Luke Steuber).
Caveats
Juxtaposition shows timing, not causation or illegality. Insider sales can be routine; the filings are presented as filed.
The post text is reproduced verbatim from the archive, including its capitalization.