Can the President buy stocks?

I know Congress is rampant with such abuse.

I'm not much into politics though but it's a thought I had.

Curious if he and his elite cronies can make a huge gain after the market tanks even further.

Who would stop him at this point?

No, but yes.

The President can do whatever he likes these days.

The president has his own crypto

Like others have already said, this president can do whatever he wants. Who's gonna stop him? He could literally release a video of him unloading an automatic weapon in a packed elementary school classroom and even his beloathed mainstream media would have nothing to say except "How could democrats let this happen?"

the president can kick your dog, steal candy from a baby and fuck your wife at this point...

It's a complicated issue (which in modern times means, "yes").

Insider trading laws should forbid it, but are loaded with so many intricacies that government figures skate by.

While there's no law directly banning it in exact words. There have been attempts in the Senate to achieve such which haven't made progress: https://thecurrentga.org/2024/07/27/bill-banning-stock-trading-for-presidents-vice-presidents-congress-members-advances/

Nevertheless law enforcement against the president specifically is reliant upon Congress, which in the partisan era of today is not going to happen if their leaders share the same party as the president, so that's basically that.

Yes presidents buy stocks. Whether its directly owned themselves or through their spouses and such depends on how much they cared about optics.