The Daily Herold: 5/15/26 - Trump's NVIDIA Trade, Chinese Students & Election Integrity Push

Jon Herold comes in Friday on a lighter show day. A post claims Trump purchased up to a million dollars of NVIDIA stock on January 6, one week before the commerce department approved NVIDIA chip sales to China. Jon pulls the disclosure live and confirms the purchase is real, then asks the harder question: if the stock did not actually go up right after the sale, is it even insider trading? He also plays Trump's comments from Beijing defending the 500,000 Chinese students in American universities on the grounds that the university system needs the money to survive, and Jon does not love it. The Trump-Xi summit produced trade and investment oversight boards, a Boeing commitment that could grow to 750 jets, and up to $50 billion in farm and energy purchases. The DOJ, DHS, and USPS are now in active interagency talks to expand federal voter verification and mail-in ballot rules under the March citizenship executive order, which Jon calls a good start while remaining cautious about the midterms. Ratcliffe just showed up in Cuba with reform demands and a $100 million aid offer that Jon finds immediately objectionable, and the Minnesota House released a report accusing the Walz administration of enabling billions in fraud. Jon also announces the fall GART: St. Pete Beach, Florida, November 12 to 15.