President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he “will not permit” defense companies to issue dividends or stock buybacks until those firms address his complaints about the industry.
Trump, in a lengthy Truth Social post, also took aim at defense contractors’ executive pay packages, calling them “exorbitant and unjustifiable given how slowly these Companies are delivering vital Equipment to our Military, and our Allies.”
Shares of General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman each fell about 2% following Trump’s comments.
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/trump-dividends-stock-buybacks-defense-companies.html
Trump says he will not permit dividends and stock buybacks for defense companies
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Posted by Puginator
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So bullish
Trump says a lot of things
Buy the dip, he will forget by next week
Old man yells at clouds kind of day
>…..until those companies capitulate to his personal demands
Kind of burying the lead with that title.
Just add it to the list
AFAIK, he has literally no authority to do this. Instead, it would be something along the lines of, we won’t give you X/Y/Z contract unless you A/B/C.
Does anyone seriously believe they’re going to halt the ever-continuous military industrial complex for any non-negligible period of time?
“I’m the CEO of everything now” – The casino-bankrupting orange freak that could only ever have been head of an inherited, criminal family business, or president for life of the Republicans.
MAGA cartel suddenly cheering up Biden/Obama policies. What a time to live in.
MIC CEO: Donny we need rare earth from China to complete the manufacturing and delivery of the weapon systems.
Trump: Xi is a Great man. I have the Best relationship with Xi. Let me share some Venezuelian oil for rare earth magnets….
I thought communism was only for the Democrats
Jesus Christ how many ballrooms does this guy need?!
Which stocks will be affected short term?
Good thing they don’t need his permission to do so.
Socialism with MAGA characteristics
Lol, his handlers want an entry point before he invades greenland
You gotta get them to dump before you pump
Regulation through executive tweets?!
The party of laissez-faire capitalism strikes again.
Blaming defense contractors for slowness in a field with a beaurocratic mess of regulations and power tripping middlemen is disingenuous at best.
Time to move the HQ to a different country. Kek
Where’s my 2000 😏
This more stock manipulation?
Now he’s attacking what used to be Republicans favorite and most reliable, corrupt profit base. Hilarious, except no one’s laughing.
Seems he’s putting them on watch while not mentioning his sons are involved with small defense companies who already received massive gov contracts.
Trump Jr is with with Unusual Machines, a Florida based drone manufacturer. He has 200k+ shares in them, and the Trump family is deeply invested in Dominari, who invested in U.M. The Trumps hold 8% of Dominari. They profited off the gov announcement of giving Unusual Machines large contracts and private investment loans as well.
Trump Jr. is also a partner at 1789 Capital, who invested in VulcanElements. Trump Jr steered Trump to get multi millions in defense contracts for their mining operations. More self dealing hyper corruption.
Stock buy backs are a way for companies to maintain control of their company. Trump knows a lot about hostile takeovers. He did it to Bally’s Casino and Hotel
Also, who are those **Allies** he’s talking about? Penguins in Greenland?
He’s trying to sway the gullibles. Only sound good from the surface. When a company becomes a Value equity, this is the few thing that shareholders wants to stick around . Otherwise , what’s the point. So he’s bubbling nonsense.
damn this is the most socialist president of all times perhaps
Small government!
Wtf is he doing again
We still have allies?
Market manipulation plain and simple ,he opened short positions and spouts off this nonsense.