albaby, trump represented that he wouldn't be selling any shares this year. BUT, he never said he wouldn't be, borrowing against his shares. There are creative ways to sell, without actually outright selling the shares.

Sure - but again, going out and buying shares on the open market creates only a temporary change in the share price. The "pump" doesn't last very long, before the price just reverts to whatever the rest of the market is doing. Which is why pump and dump schemes rely on thinly traded securities, visible efforts to get other people to join in, and "dumping" within a short time after the pump starts.

So me going out and buying $100 million worth of DJT is going to have virtually no impact on Trump's personal finances in any time frame other than a few weeks, which makes it impossible for him to realize any value from it unless he happens to sell during that short window. Borrowing against the shares wouldn't do that, since any lender is going to do a look-back of more than a few weeks.