Was Trump’s million-dollar investment in conveyor-belt sushi an accident? Here’s why social media thinks yes
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 in 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 conveyor belt sushi chain Kura Sushi worth at least $1 million dollars. Trump’s financial disclosure gives a range for the value of each investment, not an exact number, so his stock in Kura Sushi could be anywhere from $1 million to $5 million. Kura Sushi is one of just 36 companies to receive such a large investment from Trump out of 3,600 total buy-and-sell orders he placed in the beginning of 2026, 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-$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 Tim