President Donald Trump is apparently a secret sushi enthusiast, if a million-dollar investment he made earlier this year is anything to go by.
This week, Trump released a financial disclosure report showing the millions of dollars worth of investments he made during the first three months of the year. Amid a sea of companies specializing in tech and defense, one of Trump’s biggest investments caught the internet’s attention: a purchase of stock in the conveyor-belt sushi chain Kura Sushi worth at least $1 million.
Federal financial disclosure forms require public officials to report assets in ranges rather than exact figures, so Trump’s shares in Kura Sushi could be valued anywhere between $1 million and $5 million. Out of 3,600 total buy-and-sell orders he placed at the beginning of 2026, Kura Sushi is one of just 36 companies to receive such a large investment, and it stands out as the only restaurant in the bunch.
Trump did purchase stock in other restaurants, including the Cheesecake Factory and Dave & Buster’s, but his investments in both of those businesses fell into the $15,000 to $50,000 range. What, then, makes Kura Sushi so special? Social media has a running theory that Trump merely confused two businesses with similar-sounding names—and according to reports, it wouldn’t be the first time the president had made such a mistake.
A flashback to 2020
The Kura Sushi situation reminds social media of another viral Trump moment: the infamous Four Seasons fiasco of 2020.
In November of that year, just days after the presidential election was called for Joe Biden, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani held a press conference in Philadelphia. Trump posted about the event, saying it would be at “Four Seasons, Philadelphia,” implying the luxury Four Seasons hotel in the city’s downtown area. But he quickly clarified that the conference would actually be at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a small business subsequently mocked online for its proximity to a sex shop and a crematorium.
As The New York Times reported at the time, the issue wasn’t that Trump’s team had booked the wrong venue—speaking at the landscaping company was always the intention, apparently—but that Trump had misunderstood which Four Seasons his lawyers would be speaking at.
Given his proclivity for mixing up businesses, might Trump’s investment in Kura Sushi have been meant for a similar-sounding company? Perhaps he meant to invest in Fujikura, a telecommunications company that’s seen growth in the wake of the AI boom, which would look much more at home among Trump’s other recent multimillion-dollar investments.
Allocating millions of dollars toward the wrong company would be careless and financially irresponsible, and require a total lack of attention to detail—but given Trump’s reported track record, it’s well within the realm of possibility.
Trump’s investment strategy
Though Trump’s massive purchase of sushi stock is amusing on paper, the larger scope of his investment profile paints a more serious picture.
As noted by journalist Judd Legum on Bluesky, Trump’s investments were often followed by public comments endorsing the companies he’d bought stocks in. The pattern is obvious: After investing in Thermo Fisher Scientific, he toured one of the biotech company’s facilities and called it an “incredible company.” His investment in computer manufacturer Micron was swiftly followed by a meeting with its CEO and a comment to Fox News that Micron is “one of the hottest companies.” And after purchasing at least a million dollars’ worth of stock in Dell, he directly told an audience to “go out and buy a Dell computer.”
Trump has long been open about his dislike for raw fish, and is known instead for chowing down on hamburgers and catering the White House with McDonalds. But if his pattern of advertising his investments holds true, maybe we’ll see Trump singing sushi’s praises sometime soon.