Let me walk you through what just happened. Donald Trump—yes, the guy who calls everyone else weak and was just calling fearful Republicans ‘Panicans’—just caved hard on his own flagship economic policy, and it’s as pathetic as you’d expect.
After a global market crash triggered by his reckless tariff threats, Trump hit the panic button and abruptly reversed course. He announced a 90-day “pause” on his massive tariffs—something he swore just two days ago he’d never even consider. Why? Because the stock market was collapsing, the bond market was in freefall, and mortgage rates were set to spike. It was a full-blown economic dumpster fire. So naturally, Trump did what he always does: he folded.
Now he’s trying to spin it as some brilliant strategic play. His followers, like robots, are parroting that line—literally calling it the “Art of the Deal.” Folks, this is the art of the faceplant. Trump sets a house on fire, then expects praise for pulling the fire alarm.
And let’s be clear: even with this so-called pause, Americans are still stuck with a 10% tariff on virtually everything they buy. Prices are still going up. Businesses are still suffering. This isn’t a solution—it’s a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding he caused.
The gaslighting from Trumpworld is almost too embarrassing to watch. His press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, just days ago dismissed reports of a pause as “fake news.” Now she’s pretending this was the plan all along. Meanwhile, we need to be clear about another possible motive of Donald Trump: market manipulation. After all, Trump told his followers to buy stock just hours before making this announcement. A whole lot of Trump’s cronies are certainly getting very, very rich off of Trump’s schemes.
And you know I had to bring up Benny Johnson—yes, the same guy caught spreading Russian-funded pro-Trump propaganda—mocking the market crash under Trump as a character-building exercise, after previously screaming about a one-day drop under Biden like it was the end of civilization. The hypocrisy isn’t just stunning. It’s exhausting.
Let me just say this: If tariffs were really the magic bullet Trump claims, why pause them at all? Why the meltdown? Why the reversal?
Crickets.
This isn’t leadership. It’s chaos. And Americans—business owners, workers, families—are the ones paying the price. How do you build a factory or make hiring decisions when a single Truth Social post from Trump can wreck your business overnight?
Our credibility on the world stage? Gone. Our allies? Whiplashed. And our enemies? Watching with popcorn in hand.
Trump doesn’t understand the economy. He doesn’t care about stability. He only cares about ego and headlines—and enriching his family and buddies. And once again, the American people are left picking up the pieces.
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Market manipulation is exactly what he's doing! He's a frickin criminal that belongs in prison!
Trump is the one who should be incarcerated in El Salvador.
Send Vance and Johnson with him.
Add Russell Vought, hell,just send the entire cabinet. See how Kristi and Pammy look with shaved heads, no eyelash extensions and no botox or Juvederm.
I agree, Vought, should also be sent with the CF #47 trilogy. Could we charge all of his clown car of cabinet leaders with reckless endangerment and have them jailed, too?
One of my favorite signs on the historic date of 4/5: I CAN GET A BETTER CABINET AT IKEA.
Love it, Steve!!!!!
Lock 'em up. This time it's appropriate and well deserved.
And when they run out of makeup and peroxide. Yow!
No fake nails, either.
Don't forget Elon and his Muskrats
Scammer alert 🚨
I have reported them every time I see it
And all those stupid ass double talking republicans and Muskass too
Karoline Leavitt should join them.
Especially her since she opens her lying mouth everyday…
There are so many they'd have to build an annex to the prison 😭😡🍊💩
Let’s send Muskrat too.
Exactly trade the whole trump regime for all the innocent kidnapped hostages
And charge the Numbnuts et al. for their own upkeep so we can get millions of our tax dollars back.
I would personally fly the plane.
And his appointees including project 2025 men and women.
YES and his entire administration plus all maga
That was my thought as soon as I heard it. Manipulation.
Deja vu all over again? https://alternativefundinsight.com/how-next-us-treasury-secretary-once-broke-the-bank-of-england/
1. Zero sum game. If someone lost $3 trillion, somebody else won it. IMHO Trump has surrounded himself with people who know how to short the market.
2. A few right wing Republicans are opposing him. Grassley has a bill that would remove his power to adjust tarriffs. A right-wing group with financial ties to Leonard Leo and the Koch network, the New Civil Liberties Alliance sued, claiming that Trump’s decision to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not give him the power to “usurp” Congress’s right to control tariffs or “upset the Constitution’s separation of powers.” https://newrepublic.com/post/193612/donald-trump-lawsuit-tariffs-far-right-group
3. He now is at odds with Musk, who is recommending a tariff free zone, the US and EU.
4. We can take advantage. Read Feathers of Hope. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
Only takes 3 Republican House members to kick it off.
I think the lawsuit and threat of Congress taking “back” it’s rightful Constitutional control - including that over tariffs - which made Trump hit “pause”.
Keep the pressure up on the Republicans if we want to preserve our Constitution. The Republicans need to do their damn jobs - serve the Constitution - and the American people - not a King
They serve no one but themselves, but maybe that's a recipe for their looming demise.
Fabulous post!!!! Thank you
He’s dumb as a rock!
Trump is an evil moron but the Supreme Court decision granting him immunity while in office has created an evil moron who can rule like a pharaoh, cross me or you die! He can manipulate the market all he wants and his friends get richer and there is zero we can do about it, Supreme Court said so.
What would we expect from the same ScrOTUS that foisted Shitizens United upon us?
Yup.. those Supreme Court justices that voted for that need to just go!!
Yes let us all March to the steps of the Supreme Court so they see our discontent, even if it is just across the street from them, they will still be aware….We pay their salaries and they need to hear us….
Trump and family sold 2 billions dollars of Truth Social before the tariffs were announced and most likely bought back low before lifting the tariffs.
Exactly!! That’s what I thought. He’s not backing down! This was the plan all along and he’s telling his cronies ahead of time so they can cash in!!
Moscow Marge is guilty of insider trading. Lock her up!
Yep!! he's gonna get only worse 'cause in his evil head he thinks he did "world a favor" now - that's how crazy the sadistic pos terrorist-serving tRumputin is.
he's already signed "executive orders" against Miles Taylor and another critic of his - heyyyy, he's signing now "executive orders" against the existing individuals who dare to criticize him. he the insurrectionist-in-chief is about to invoke, oh, irony, the insurrection act. it's why I say - the good Americans, the tRump's-eVIlonmusk's-jdvance's-mikejohnson's entire reign of terror is/are terrorists' putin's-mbs's-netanyahu's-ramzankadyrov's agents who are explicitly tasked by these terrorists to, literally, destroy USA. USA is like the American airplanes of 9.11.2001 hijacked by alqaida terrorists i.e. tRumputin reign of terror. This is the sense of urgency all, I repeat, all NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans must have, so, act accordingly!!
This is from CNN
In a massive turnaround, the S&P 500 posted its best day since October 2008. The Nasdaq posted its best day since January 2001 and its second-best day in its history. The Dow posted its best day in five years.
Now Trump can tell us he has a booming economy and the kool aid drinkers will believe it.
Do NOT allow him to turn this upside down to his favor!! Do NOT allow him manipulate you, Americans!!
I agree with you. This was all planned. What about the text he sent out the morning of and said this is a great time to buy.
Trump has committed so many crimes and nothing is being done.
Time to let Supreme Court know how we feel…
yep its illegal
Is he smart enough to manipulate the market, or did he just tuck tail and ran after his sycophants all hit the panic button? If the bond market causes a major interest rate hike in addition to the price hike on consumer goods because of tariffs itr would be a financial meltdown for many people and businesses. Hence the panic button!
Exactly Gary, he's manipulating also the minds of the gullibles who still harbor some hopes toward him lest he loses them too. the terrorist-serving pos tRumputin is in panic mode and doesn't know where is backside nor where is frontside, he's like a headless fly, read, a crazy-eyed rabid terrorist caught in the act and now not knowing which direction to head for.
Do NOT allow him get any praises, God Forbid, for reversing the tariffs, good Americans!! Only when he saw that even his nuttiest cultists started screaming at him did he cave lest he gets some points for this - fuck him now harder than ever 'cause the bully hit the wall, but he's gonna get only worse.
Indivisible is reporting the terrorist-serving pos is mulling invoking the insurrection act - oh, irony, the insurrectionist terrorist would to impose that act. Ehhhh, my President Biden, who did you transfer the power to??????................
Agreed!
I am so tired of the soap opera chaos.
Amen...but that’s what they're counting on- stay strong- we're all in this together
Me too it is exhausting but we have to hang in and not budge.
So he kills the stock market, then after folks have lost trillions, created
investor doubts, then pauses his BS tariffs for 90 days and the wealthy buy up reduced price stocks, do I have that right?
Thats criminal market manipulation 101. 😡
yep
I believe you're absolutely correct
See if the SEC has weighed in.
Ooooo great point Steve!
Who is the head of SEC now? A trump appointee?
Exactly he's a blatant criminal with full immunity, given by corrupt judge roberts. The whole regime are criminals and domestic terrorists
yep, that's what I keep saying, domestic and foreign, foreign and domestic terrorists.
Yes!
The art of the deal….hahaaaaa! It’s more like “the art of the effing IDIOT” what a moron.
What a moron! We need the adults back in charge. Cory Booker should run in 2028! https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/cory-booker-is-senator-spartacus
2028 is too far away. If we can’t use the 25th amendment now, then when? Sure that leaves Vance but he is disliked so much he could be impeached.
Okay. I wrote this in haste and I don’t think it could really happen. His cabinet is filled with yes people. But he is insane, mentally incapable, or both…And what will it take?
Then the idiot in the house of representatives steps in...no gain there!
I know. But I repeat — 2028 is too far away. I will be insane by then!
worse. I frankly don't think we'll be able to make it until then. I mean literally, this can't be survived if allowed to go on.
the inmates are running the asylum. Where is Nurse Ratched when we need her?
How much money do you think the Trump family and other insiders made by buying right before the pause was announced? Always the art of the grift.
And he complains about Biden! Such balls.
He is such a POS. He is going to turn around, try to re instate Bidens victories, and claim them as HIS . Mark my words. Causes his own chaos ,and then claims he fixes things. Vile, nasty, moron. Stupid. Old ass fool
Just like he did in his first term when he claimed the good economy when he inherited from Obama…..
He did also in his first term….same scenario just different topic…
Those grifters are raking OUR MONEY in.
Pelosi was attacked by a mentally ill leftist. It’s important to understand fact from opinion. Perhaps your TDS precludes you from rational cognitive processing. Almost half of Democracts believe it’s justified to commit acts of violence (mrder) against Trum or Musk. Is this the vile hate violence you’re referencing?
ha ha ha ha, and off u go - reported and blocked!!
Hey Vel, Mr Mangled here is a lying troll. 🤥
TDS is actually what you supporters are suffering from by believingand supportingthis chaos!!...but like Trump, y'all project it to those who disagree with him and his policies.
Thank you for your insight.
Just friendly facts. I’m interested in understanding how you came to hate Trump? Where did those feelings start?
SINCE THE 70S NY & NJ. HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PIECE OF SHIT.
You should ask Nancy Pelosi. Her front running is so legendary you can invest like she does and profit from inside information.
https://pelositracker.app/
So what. You should just move on Trumper. The answer to Pelosi from the wing nuts was to attack her husband with a hammer. Vile, hate and violence. The regime can't wait to start . Peace President. BS . Still using Hillary to blame? Biden? Obama? Morons. All of you
When the media slanders/defames you (which is illegal), you are entitled to damages. Trump is also suing CBS for $20B and a settlement is imminent and he will be compensated handsomely.
Obama was paid 65M for a book deal and an estimated 300M on their Netflix deal. Earned income.
Presidential library donations are standard operating procedure for former presidents.
Also, the Independent is a biased left wing media company from the United Kingdom owned by Russian and Saudi businessmen, which is helpful to understand.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90663723/barack-and-michelle-obamas-netflix-deal-is-finally-bearing-fruit-is-it-more-than-obamaganda
https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/barack-michelle-obama-netflix-deal-1202817723/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-reportedly-struggling-to-raise-enough-cash-for-presidential-library/ar-AA1tdVUk
So you use Variety and MICROSOFT ???? They live rent free in you cultists heads. Love it ! The article was the money he and his grifter family cost us, dated this year. We didn't forget the first 4, although you people all have.
Ramona, politicians are evil, regardless of party.
Well, we agree on that one. But, this guy, is no politician. But he and all who still are with him are certainly evil.
You’re entitled to your opinion. We can’t live in a vacuum, and we have to seek to understand. Verifiable fact, however, is indisputable.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/14/hillary-clinton-uranium-one-deal-russia-explainer-244895
2021. Politico??? Please
Be aware the Politico is a left biased media outlet the USAID paid $8M to provide free subscriptions to Washington bureaucrats.
I really don't care. I want normal back. I want lying to stop. This is not sustainable for anyone.
The media lies to us every day 24/7. We can’t live start there.
NO WE ARE DONE ! Crawl away slug
Good day! Give my best to the kitties.
https://trumpgolftrack.com/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-hits-no-1-spot-for-most-vacation-days-in-office-for-a-president/ar-AA1z7PQr
The most audacious and overt market manipulation in history. This grub of a ganster does not even bother to try and hide his crimes as he owns the Justice Department. Have we crossed the high crimes and misdemeanour threshold yet?
We crossed that threshold (the Rubicon), the last time he reigned terror on our country for four years. If only McConnell had allowed him to be removed, but instead he deferred to the courts. I blame the entire GOP and any ass that supports this lawless administration.
Well said, Valerie
It's like Carny talk:
Threshcon
Rube-hold
High felonies more like it...
Lon g ago. The regime of hate was enacted before he even slimed his way back in. No one listened. Way too many are complying. We ALL LOSTTHIS TIME.
Not giving up when we have the Hands Off movement….
Never giving up. Always gonna keep it real. It's a choice of are you SANE or are you INSANE. All sane , exhausted, angry, focused on resisting the cult , welcomed . America 🇺🇸 We will be great again.
Insider trading, anyone?
Worst President ever and a F_cking moron!
FUBAR
Let’s not forget that The Art Of The Deal was ghost-written. Chump didn’t write shit. He just IS 💩.
You can say all these things, but I’m telling you, middle America thinks he’s a genius. The media will blow him all weekend over his lies re: countries bowing to him and we’re right the fuck back where we’ve been all along.
Middle America is being deluged by horrible storms. If they don't see how they are being ignored right now, then they truly are blind to how little he cares for America.
They need to see what he did before 2015. Most think that because they don't research anything.he has always been a failure
I don’t know but having had 5 bankruptcies says a lot about him…
Do you think we will be on a 90 day tariff-on-tariff-off cycle for the next four years?
The chaos is the POINT. Trump THRIVES on chaos. And now he's bragging that countries are forced to grovel before him and kiss his ass.
He LOVES this shit. Meanwhile the rest of us suffer while we ride over a cliff on a bus we cannot get off of.
it's so disgusting.
I don’t have the stomach for this bs he has got to go
yes, and while he's pulling THIS grift off, it's also serving as a way to divert our attn from the MAJOR THEFTS going on as we speak over at the IRS, SSA, and more...
Absolutely- you are so rightly
that IS what the sadistic quisling terrorists-serving maniacs like tRumputin do - ingratiating engorging indulging in abuse of everyone and everything. it's why I'm mad at Biden for ever transferring the presidential powers to him.
I would be more concerned at the rigged 2024 election that I think Musk and his whiz kids were behind so Musk would have our government downsized to weaken it….
that is what I meant and mean!! the 2024 "election" should've been investigated and hand recounted before certified/inaugurated!!
No one should be that surprised he backed off the tariffs. This is what he does best. Create some gigantic drama, create a whole bunch of angst, and then switch course with some fumbling reason that makes about as much sense as the created drama in the first place did. He’s an exhausting personality and we’re all trapped in his insane reality TV show.
Time for more rallies like was done earlier this month….
he left them on just long enough for his billionaire buddies to buy the stocks at rock bottom prices ..
Did they have a groupon code???
I posited Trump is an alien- literally
Does that glowing orange come from anywhere in nature? Next, can he be picked up by ICE ASAP and sent back to his home planet...
Strange that Trump paused some tariffs the day before the House votes on the budget including his “Big Beautiful Tax Breaks”!
yep.
The art of the steal. Yes, done with the chaos. Done, done, done, with a fork!
It is ABSOLUTELY market manipulation. He is doing this intentionally to crash the market and then tell all his buddies he is going to "pause yhe tarrifs tomorrow" and they know to have stock purchases lined up for all the market opens. Insider trading and market manipulation. They just made mint with the market increase.
Is that not supposed to be treated as the high crimes?? Anywhere in the world even in Papua New Guinea the illiterate tribes would have a sense of what tRumputin is doing to be high crimes, so, America, where are you??
Stop saying they're crazy or clueless. They are not clueless. They are absolutely playing 3D chess, just with a touch of unrestrained ego, because why not? Do not be fooled into accepting an explanation of incompetence because they pulled back on tariffs. Insider trading is a likelihood. Marjorie Taylor Greene was caught red-handed but there are no penalties. It doesn't matter if 47, Bessent, Lutnick and Navarro look like fools. Psy op.
47 literally said the weak will not survive. He means us. He means everyone who cannot afford to wait out a recession. Especially without a social safety net. Poor people are going to die. Disabled people are going to die. Sick people are going to die. Elderly people are going to die. While families furiously struggle to prevent that by working themselves to death for the corporate machines.
Wake up. This is all a psy op. Eugenics is part of the plan. Only the strongest will survive. Those who die will be replaced with Al. Didn't Bill Gates just say so? Those who are left will beg to screw in those tiny iPhone screws. To do back breaking labor for corporate farming operations. Affluent white men will be the only ones who are "safe." If they can afford to pay for it like tributes to a mob boss.
Elon is trying to win back followers. This is controlled opposition. This is creating plausible deniability. He can afford to wait out a recession. He will buy up stocks at rock bottom prices. He will wait for exemptions and then carefully build his wealth back up. He knows how to create wealth.
This is a long game for him and any corporation who can afford to come out the other side of a recession. They will all be richer than ever. Musk hasn't lost any of his billion dollar government handouts and he won't. Who benefits from a trillion dollar defense budget? Oh, that's right.
47 could easily create a Wall Street bailout. It has been done before. He is crazy like a fox. P2025 is pulling the strings. Billionaires are pulling the strings.
Can we be saved? It remains to be seen. Our protests matter but are largely performative. There is strength in numbers, though. We must continue to gain momentum. Make no mistake. We are not only fighting for our way of life.
We are literally in danger.
Stay woke. Stay very, very woke.
I agree. Sadly, I've been saying that for years. No one was even responding to me pleading . Thanks to all who fell for this BS. I'm all out of Fu(#s to give.
Don't let him fool you. While our IRAs were tanking, they were snatching up cheap stocks. As soon as they go up again, they're going to sell again and make a ton of money. Total market manipulation. Meanwhile, while everyone was focused on tariffs, the most egregious security lapse EVER, Signal Gate, is all but forgotten. He thinks he's the master of deception but he's nothing more than a pathetic charlatan. Hopefully, people are finally waking up and starting to see this.
That’s what I thought too but he seems to get away with all sorts of stuff. It’s inconceivable that he was reelected
It was really rigged….
Talk about insider trading.
Where is SEAL TEAM 6 when we really need them?
Or let’s Free Luigi! He’s got plenty of work to do
Where is Martin Blank? The Jackal?
This article hit it right on the head, Market Manipulation. All he's doing was allowing his buddies to buy low and shoot it back up.
MARKET MANIPULATION … out in the open. Thinking of all the high-fives and fist bumps happening at their cocktail parties. Sickening 🤮
Disgusting, we all know he's a liar and extortionist--did he do this to keep the little guy off balance, and his big wig buddies could buy stock at bargain basement prices? Could he actually think that far ahead, or did he cave and try to cover it up. Either way, OMG, just sickening. I want to unsubscribe from this bs reality show. Ugh!
Do you really think that all this evil he does is coming only from his head?? all he&eVIlon&jdvance&most of repukkkes are in non-stop connections with terrorists putin of russia-mbs of saudia-netanyahu of israel-etc.... perpetrating all this coordinated together laughing at us the common folks 'cause we're their victims (and some of us sadly allow to be their victims).
it's why I keep saying to all the NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans - at the very least, do NOT allow to be the tRumputin's victims but fight him&his regime proactively and relentlessly!!
The man is a certified psychopath! Not to mention all the insider trading that's gone on in the last few days. Start with Marjorie Taylor Green's activity and you'll find more red slug followers. Enriching themselves with no thought of anything or anyone but themselves. Talk about a bunch of p*ss ants!
He needs to be stopped!!
Let’s get Hands Off to rally including protesting the inside trading he created👍
You can be sure that even during this shirt lived market crash, he and his "friends" picked up some great sale priced deals and increased their wealth substantially in a few days.
Definitely market manipulation. No doubt his family and friends all bought. BUT nobody left to investigate insider trading anymore. It’s the Wild West for criminals
Orange Lies Matter.
they matter to be smashed slam-dunk!!
So is this his plan? Every few weeks announce tariffs are on and then a few weeks later tariffs are off? What kind of business can function under these conditions?
Gangster Capitalism.
Trump thinks he's a genius, in the real world he's a laughing stock who thinks he can bully the world and is finding out that the world is not afraid of an idiot
This is CHAOS on full display. A kindergarten understanding of world economy? A completely manufactured crisis? No coherent logic in the policy? Economic illiteracy at the highest level? Haphazard approach? Donald Trump is a very stupid man? Those are all ACTUAL quotes from ACTUAL economic experts. The truth is… they can ALL be true at the same time. Shove that up your ASS Karoline Leavitt!
I’m sick and tired of this stupid crap! He’s absolutely the worst person in the world right now!
This was well planned, as I had predicted. Put the market into “Bear” mode. Time for the ultra wealthy to buy and build even more wealth. He is a psychopath and this exemplifies his real “art of the deal”. All planned and executed. All at the expense of the American people as the tariffs he imposed were “simply” a tax burden paid by those he is supposed to serve and protect. The rest of the gong show was meant to cripple the global economy and he couldn’t care less. Wake up MAGA you empowered DT to do this to you - and for the second time. He was right when he said years ago about republicans are stupid people and easily fooled. Congratulations, MAGA, you deserve every penny of your suffering.
magats do deserve this.
We the others - don't.
Well, you know who to blame. It is a USA created problem, actually a disaster of mammoth proportions, and it can only be fixed by the people of the USA. I see some action but late starting and too little. You are headed for a huge recession - or worse - so how bad does it have to get before dramatic action is taken?
I swear it's like Jerry Springer "guests" and the cast of Jack Ass got drunk, and now this is what we get stuck with.
much worse.
think horror movie - Saw (the most disgusting horror even I, who likes some good horrors, refused to watch). tRumputin is indulging in terrorism like that jigsaw killer, "enjoy" reading it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_(film), TX chainsaw massacre etc.... also, wonder why eVIlon was perpetrating what he did. it's all about torture porn, nihilistic bloody disgusting evil in tRumputin&his orbit.
Insider trading at the top.
He’s unhinged, erratic and petulant. We have a two-year-old president
Hail to the Toddler in Chief
he's in maniacal rage typical of psychopaths. he's "only" masking it that way.
I think he’s manipulating the markets to make himself and his cronies richer. He is such a sleaze, he wouldn’t hesitate to pass information to the oligarchs when to sell/buy. What do you think? 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
He proudly claimed that on Air Force One “ We will get richer”.’’He knew what he was doing…The Rich get richer while we are at a stand still…Time to keep up the rallies and let him know we are on to him….
Unbelievable. The Orange melon head. Get him out of there. So 90 day pause, well it's a permanent pause for me and most Canadians on traveling to the US or purchasing anything US - until he goes!!
Absolute market manipulation.
He is insane.
I don't think he folded....he loves this game....getting everyone scared.....being in charge of the global economy .... teasing and taunting and testing both loyalists and everyone else who are, by default, enemies. We have to learn what we need to do to stamp out this deadly element who has captured and/or infected populations almost everywhere. Normal 21st century thinking won't cut it. We are living in a primal folk lore horror story.....perhaps like Beowulf......maybe something worse. Hey everyone.....help !!!!!
Jean- you see the reality- he is a very practiced snake oil salesman
Indeed....brilliant manipulator.....gets everyone to react however he wants them to ....it's also a distraction from the real evils he enacts all the time like disappearing people. All this excitement and panic over the stock market was so much bigger on the all types of media because it has to do with people with money not the many who live on the edge. Alas
My sentiments exactly!! Thinking so much like you!
DjtRuMp and his mju3rats are a plague on humanity. He is being allowed to destroy billions of lives here and throughout the world. WHO will Stop him?
Us…the rally movement needs to continue so he sees we mean business….
It’s been manipulated about every 30 days x3 times now. Art of the Deal. So
Corrupt!
Trumpers and his administration are such IDIOTS! 75 countries have not called him! That’s another one of his lies!!!!!
I suspect this was/is market manipulation along with his ignorance/stupidity.
I’m an American living in Canada and it’s heartbreaking to learn all the insane damage the felon is causing my fellow citizens and family.
HANDS OFF needs to be massive! We had a protest here in my city to support you.
Billions per cent so, Suzanne DeRusha!!
This on again off again shit is like being in a toxic relationship. America is in a toxic relationship with Trump and she needs to dump him ASAP!
It’s totally bonkers but what else should we expect with the orange felon in charge. Commiserations to all living under this tyranny. 💙🇬🇧💙
You dumbass. No wonder your businesses failed
He’s not scared. I’m sure his billionaires in that Republican dinner last night said “we bought your election for quid pro quo, we’re losing money, we’ll start backing Dems unless you stop these tariffs.”
Never mind the unless… we are backing dems. He left us no choice.
DJT stop playing fing games with our economy!!! You POS 🤬🤬🤬
Market manipulation
He posted on truthsocial 1 or 2 hours before the announcement “It’s a great time to buy.” Is that true? Did he really do that?
anything sociopathic - he did and does.
Do people like soap operas? Are people so addicted to « reality TV » that they voted this orange monarch in to be entertained by the new series (4 seasons) of FAFO?
the chronically coddled emptiness and boredom are the main characteristics why the sufferers become bigots and are drawn to the psychopaths.
He’s going to do this over and over until the public has no money left. And when the economy tanks then, it won’t revive
It all comes down to his mental illness
Keep calling out their hypocrisy. They can't keep their lies straight.
👍
I want to know how much money trump and his sticky fingered little pals made from all this.
He is a destructor 👎
"Art of the Deal"? Really? Hey, KarenBarbie Leavitt, there is no deal here, and certainly no art. Your boss is a stupid monster and a vindictive 5-year-old who thinks that foreign policy is a combination of Monopoly and Stratego.
And, is there not a single brave soul in that press corps supine to her yappin' lies - to muster a courage to tell the truth to her face?? tsk, tsk, that is what I don't get, how can they listen to her lies....
They’re all cashing in on this big time
I feel like we are getting slow walked into "being okay," these than 10% higher tarrifs by doing this 90 day pause game. Kinda like what PGE did to my electric bill by wanting to raise there rates by 25% last couple of years. Resulted in public outcry, so PGE raised the rates by 12.5% instantly instead and then slow walked us into paying more than the purposed 25% rate increase.
Omg
Like sharks smell blood in the water
Trump is full of 💩 look at all those white men by him not a surprise. Women can do those jobs too.
This is nothing short of insider trading!!
This so called man is deplorable
Trump is the one who should be incarcerated in El Salvador.
Of course!!
And Trump says he's making these stupid decisions regarding China on behalf of the USA and other countries? And what countries would that be? Do any not detest Trump and company? He's nobody's defender - on our dime, mind you.
tRumputin says anything remotely of a sense = tRumputin lies.
tRumputin says evil s..t - believe him!
Oh, exactly! He is working off of creating insider information so he and his cronies can gain more money. So illegal!!!
I just said this a couple days ago that Trump would tank the markets so his buddies could buy stocks dirt cheap, then Trump would reverse the tariffs to push the market back up. He should be arrested for market manipulation and insider trading.
Yep!!
I would like to see the names of the 75 countries that called Trump. I don't believe it.
Of course he's lying.
Dang, the whole world is getting a huge dose of donnie gaslighting.
He’s an idiot | manipulating the stock market so that he and his rich friends can get richer | he literally told his friends to buy stock | who are all the countries who want to kiss his old wrinkled rear | Vietnam | they are irrelevant | so all of this was just to manipulate the market | but this is what criminals do
The damage has already been done! We lost $30 Thousand from our IRA'S!!!
2+2=5
Best Orwellian line from 1984.
‘Stocks now went up...people have never seen anything like it…’
2+2=5
He is a liar.
The man in the mirror is running the Brain of Demented Don.
GOP any supporting democrats, ALL cabinet members, the mentally insane one, ALL involved forgetting they work for "We the People" ... as read, Absolutely send ALL to El Salvador!
Insider trading is illegal. Trump's Sopreme Court made this legal for him, but what about those who gained like his family?
He who speaks with forked tongue continues to sabotage our economy, our country, and the trust of the world.
Pure evil.
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So the oligarcts got rich and the lineup of foreign leaders, begging for relief, has disbanded. What's next? Don't stop the resistance. Don't let this blip trick you, he is just waiting to do this again in 75 days, wait and see.
or, 75 hours.
I mean this just shows when you bully a schoolyard bully, they back down. Keep going it going! Wish America would bully him as well!
That really is proof that he is a narcisstistic IDIOT!!!
He's clearly manipulating the market.
He’s a narcissist with extreme anger issues. And highs of extreme anger and then lows of weak anger and it’s just my guess but during the lows like now that so many are against him he’s scared shitless. Of course he will never admit it, ever. On top of all that he’s nuttier than a fruit cake. Just my guess.
He’s a shit card player! In fact he’s just shit!
Buncha goobers
Someone is getting rich, and it's not the American people! He needs to be in jail and the rest of them! 🤦🏾♀️🔥
Trump is the one who needs to be incarcerated in El Savador.
Question is: How much stock does the Trump families, Musk and friends, and all the Republican members of Congress and the Senate have purchased stock? Seems like it was a deliberate ploy to buy cheap and reap the profits later.
But the damage has already been done to our allies and trading partners.
Insider trading and market manipulation. He and his cronies have the inside scoop. No care for we small players, who after a loss, have no confidence to buy low— rich people do that all the time.🙈It’s illegal- right?
This is totally a Pump and Dump scheme. It was leaked a few days ago and we saw markets jump up for a short time until they dismissed it as "fake news" This is criminal!
He posted this five hours before he paused the tariffs. Is this not proof of market manipulation?
Martha Stewart went to jail with her insider! Don above the law here too?? Hello SEC!!
Trump is a non repentant convicted felon who got a free pass to be above the law from his complicit SCOTUS. Insider trading , market manipulation is all in his wheelhouse , don’t expect the SEC, FBI or the DOJ to lift a finger to look under his skirt to see what’s going on. Whoever said crime doesn’t pay never met Felon 47.
indeed.
This isn't The Art of The Deal it's The Brainfart of The Fool. Deadbeat Donnie has some crackpot say something stupidly ridiculous that's against conventional wisdom and he thinks Hey that's genius because nobody's ever said that to him before. Especially not his Mellon university professor who tried to teach him how to do business, but unfortunately he was "The stupidest student I've ever taught" and Donnie's proving that daily.
then, what to say about his voters..... lordy, lordy.
Traitor Trump !
"A whole lot of Trump’s cronies are certainly getting very, very rich off of Trump’s schemes." But HE is getting the richest. How much do you think he makes every time he pushes the panic button? "Now I control the stock market!"
His wishy washy tariff games is just forcing other countries to find alternative suppliers outside of the United States. And businesses won't return to doing business with United States ever again!
that was his master's midget putin's goal.
It does not sound like he wrote those words himself. It's too coherent.
The Grand Idiot surrounded by a bunch of little idiots on a fast train going nowhere. So pathetic!!
You go jump in a lake with your orange lipstick on ! 🤡
Wonder if the penguins called.
The art of a deal you dumbass 11 trillion dollars lost That's the art of a deal ! 😎
I fucking hate him.
SEC needs to file suit on this and put him in a more secure place than Martha Stewart was in for a while.
Does SEC even exist anymore after eVIlon's massacres.....
He may have fired the people at the FTC, so this would account for his blatant corruption. Al Green is announcing the articles of impeachment, and I hope he does it soon!
I love Al Green!! If only all the Democrats had stood in solidarity with him instead of 10 of them betraying him.... unless there was a tactic in that 10's backstabbing as I always desperately hope there must be a particular tactic to some Democrats' bizarrely lenient to tRumputin behavior, lest the real thing leaks into public..... but the 10 Ds did embolden the madman throwing Al Green under the bus..... my gosh the lunatic nonchalantly called Democrats "lunatics" and the 10 Ds still sided with the lunatic....
The D’s are always on the side of right and trying to teach the unteachable R’s what the right thing to do is however misguided. When they tried to censure MTG and I believe one other, the R’s did not do the right thing according to the decorum of the house. I agree they should have played the game like the R’s, because doing the right thing in this time of evil taking over is not the time to play nice!
there is no other choice in this situation created by merrick garland's dereliction of duty re: tRumputin&his innermost circle and the corrupt 6 on "scotus" than to beat tRumputin&his at their own game!!
Pause just made his buddies Trillions, just like during COVID. He is the master manipulator!
You notice how he doesn’t put it on the White House website? And all of his billionaire buddies are buying up apple Amazon all the big stocks that are falling. I don’t believe for one second that he’s not gonna come back at this in 90 days and I hope that Wall Street doesn’t believe it either.
Yesterday, BUY, BUY, BUY. His billionaire Cabinet follows orders and today are 10%-30% RICHER. Clearly market manipulation in support of Insider Trading. PAM BONDI: When can we expect DOJ to open an investigation?
If i were japan and others I would come right back tonight and do another historic bond sale as we sleep, then see what mafia don does with ni cards left....please please do it japan
I don't think he folded. I think he used the market uncertainty to rake in a windfall.
All of this chaos he's creating is meant to cover his most sinister plans...how could their be even more "sinister" lurking behind the curtain? How about creating or joining a war? Hes moved armored divisions and naval resources to the mideast recently. He'll have unlimited war powers abroad [congress will need to grow a backbone to stop him] and the ability to crack heads on American streets as well. Bumpy is likely to soon turn bloody here at home. Nothing is beyond his twisted potential. Stand up. Organize. Know your neighbors. Be strong. Fear is pointless in the face of such a maniacally evil personality. No one lives forever, choose how you want to live.
I pray that will not come to pass- but know we must remain vigilant
And then organize.
Like I said already, I did see Indivisible getting an info the insurrectionist-in-chief was about to invoke the "insurrection" act. All the more reasons to break him and finish him in a fait accompli countercoup!! These days are to be courageously against him&his!!
Keep being loud!
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Out .Take back the house and senate from the Rethuglicans . Stay focused ,continue boycotts ,get informed Thru MTN and substack
Mention on a daily basis Malcolm Nance, Tennessee Brando,Hal Sparks,,robt Reich, Bernie Sanders,Phil Ittner AOC,SCHIFF,Dr Redliner,Senator
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Criticise Kennedy in public,Say no to invading Iran with Israel. Firm resistance no violence.
"Trump only simulates madness. The rest of us pay the price." (Robert Reich, Apr 09, 2025).......
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-only-simulates-madness?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
"What national suicide looks like." (Steve Schmidt, Apr 09, 2025)......
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/what-national-suicide-looks-like?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=836444&post_id=160935765&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I'd just add, unless Schmidt wrote it already in his own words as I don't have time to read him, that the national suicide has happened already on nov. 6th 2024, on jan. 6th 2025 and on jan. 20ieth 2025.
Since tRumputinist parts of USA are able to commit multiple suicides, maybe there is a hope of at least partial revival of Democratic USA i.e. the larger parts of USA 'cause better something than nothing.
Mr. Yippy sure as hell didn't author that post.
He is absolutely incapable of putting that many words together. Mr Yippy can't make up that many sentences. No way is he the author of that post.
You're killing me🤣
Don't forget - they put Martha Stewart in jail for insider trading... where's the justice???
They also fried rosenbergs for less than tRumputin had committed already half a decade ago.
But you’re not being clear. Was it calculated market manipulation, or is he that stupid? Can’t (in THIS case) be both.
Well everybody is getting “yippy”, therefore what else should we expect? The “yippy” crowd has really done it this time!
How can one man have so much power ?
He stacked the SCOTUS during his last reign of terror and they gave him the power to destroy us all.
lack of critical thinking by far too many and the unfettered faux org.
Trump is the one who needs to be incarcerated in El Savador.
'"An enormous scam:' Senator accuses Trump of massive 'insider trading scandal'."
"Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) flagged a social media post by president Donald Trump, as possible evidence of insider trading.
The president urged investors to buy, as the stock market dipped Wednesday morning, saying "this is a great time to buy", on Truth Social at 9:37 a.m., but less than four hours later Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all of his tariffs, sending stocks soaring.
"So I have questions about the tariff announcements today," Murphy said in a video posted to X. "Who benefitted, and who made money? This should matter to you, too, because this could be an enormous scam. What we know is at about 9:30 [Wednesday], Trump posts on social media that people should buy, it's a good time to buy, and then three hours later, guess what? He announces that there's going to be a 90-day suspension of many of the tariffs." (Raw Story)......
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-insider-trading/
'"I'm forcing you to talk about it!' Bernie Sanders yells at Anderson Cooper and slams CNN."
"Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders took a shot at CNN during a Wednesday night televised town hall on the same network, blasting news networks for failing to cover what he called "critical issues" and leading to people "losing faith in the American system."
During the hour-long town hall, Sanders was asked by a civil rights attorney about why people are turning away from the Democratic party.
The senator replied that the "failure of the Democratic Party, in my view, is that they have not been aggressive in standing up to powerful corporate interests in laying out and implementing an agenda that speaks to the needs of the working class." (Raw Story)......
https://www.rawstory.com/bernie-sanders-2671731313/
"'Say goodbye to the US economy': MSNBC's Rachel Maddow flags what really made Trump 'cave'."
"MSNBC's Rachel Maddow delivered a stark warning to her viewers on Wednesday night as she ripped into President Donald Trump for “his panicked U-turn on tariffs.”
“For all his famed and supposed attention to the stock market, I got to tell you, Donald Trump has been very happy to preside over huge off-the-cliff plunges in the stock market repeatedly,” Maddow said. “In fact, in history, if you look at the Dow Jones, if you look at the 10 largest single-day point drops in the Dow in history, of the 10 worst point drops ever on the Dow, Donald Trump was the president for nine of those 10 days.” (Raw Story)......
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671730390/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1
What Mitch hath wrought !
I’m pretty sure Trump just wants to go down in history. It may not be pretty, but everyone gets to know his name. Caligula comes to mind.
yep. and nero, all evil in one.
He did not fold. Stop calling it that. He's playing the manipulation game he always does. He's destroying our economy and making billionaires and Congress very wealthy on a grand scale. Duh 🙄
This was not , and won’t be , a victory for the orange disrupter. Somebody explained the ramifications of a collapsing bond market to him , probably by talking very slowly and using hand puppets , and the tangerine termite got scared and rolled back his nonsensical tariffs. I don’t believe for a second that 70 plus countries called and begged for mercy. He caved , America dropped a couple more rungs on the respect ladder in the eyes of the world , and his idiot enablers are trying to spin this into a “great victory for America”. Its not ,he knows it , his clown party knows it & the world knows it. Somewhere in the Antarctic some penguins are laughing at him.
And, folks, do NOT allow the msm in USA spin this as a "victory" for him, even if you have to claw your ways to those msm-buildings to scream it to them to quit distorting things to favor him!! I know efffin' faux-"news" is FUBAR, but other msm-buildings should be made to report truthfully - this was his criminal market manipulation to distract from Signalgate&all his other crimes!! So, all he's doing is perpetrating crimes after crimes and it needs to be reported as so!!
I wonder how many billionaires brought up stocks before orange duped the tariffs. Think about it America he’s doing it on purpose
He knew what was going to happened. He sold off his stocks along with family and friends then announced it was a great time to buy 4 hrs before he reversed the tariffs. Corruption at its finest! 🤬
Dang! Anyone else getting dizzy?
Are we supposed to be grateful that he only RAISED across-the-board taxes to us by 10% when he was supposed to be REDUCING costs to consumers, while he telegraphed to his buddies it's a green light for buying so they could recapture any losses they incurred in recent days, if not make significant gains? 🤯
It doesn't make him smart. It just makes him unreliable and untrustworthy. He put a lot of citizens through a lot of turmoil, but I guess that doesn't matter. Some may have even had to tap their 401(k) account at a loss or with a penalty and won't be able to make up the losses they experienced. But, huh, I guess that's their fault. Smh! 🤐
to stress you and kill you by stress - is his point.
it's why you have to laugh at and ridicule him&his even when feeling sad!!
This is just disgusting bs. Please, for the love of God, impeach this criminal!!
I’m sure the same Supreme Court who gave him these powers also made plenty of money off this “so called art of the deal”! Anything but! Total insider trading and it should be investigated!
yep!!
Wonder how many billions they have made off the middle class 401 shorting the market. Highway robbery
He didn’t fold he planned this schuto make money off the stock market ! I’m sure his whole crew was buying stocks before he made his announcement . Should be easy to prove if only we had a FBI or SEC to enforce the laws ! What a f’ up Country we have now !
Giving his friends and family and the Republican representatives lots of money.
Not terrified, this was planned!
He is a Despot!
market manipulation is illegal - get this nutter out of the white house and his maggots
He tanked the market so his family could buy low and make another fortune.
to please his own old ass, first&foremost.
Why are people interviewing him? He’s a fucking idiot and I am so tired of hearing his stupid puking of words. Just stop asking him questions and showing him spewing his lies and b s. We don’t want to hear him or see him. Don’t you all get it?
My questions and sentiments exactly!! Of a decade long time, at least.
It's only 90 days and it will happen again... Who knows how much money they made this week with Cheeto's F ing with the tariffs!
It’s also a flipflop. His real biography will be in several volumes- the art of the grift, etc. - but the fattest volume will be the art of the flip flop. Just a list starting with his first campaign for presidency would be 6 inches thick.
Could not get more foul or disgusting.
Along with the tariff nightmare we must continue to pressure Trump and his pet congress ....He must be impeached as well as corrupt Supreme Court Justices who are neither Supreme or just....
DT should be impeached, the market manipulation is another act of malice he has committed to America. 🇺🇸 DT, Musk, Vance, Johnson & the republicans who are enabling him should be sent to the prison in El Salvador too!
Absolutely so!! And return that innocent gay hairdresser!!
How is he still in office and how has congress nor stepped up? They need to change the old rules that only the speaker can bring up issue/bill to vote on.
He planned the crash and then pause! Insider trades went in. His people made tons of money by selling their dtickd and then buying them back at severely reduced rates.
And that is extremely criminal!!
Art of the Deal? We should call it the art of the bankruptcy (the one area in which Trump has real expertise). What the markets hate far more than tariffs is VOLATILITY. Especially when it's brought on by the ineptitude of a key player such as Don the Con. "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!"
Yep, it's humiliating, and I'm not even American. I can only begin to imagine what it's like for you guys. Just about to watch a video from Australia that commented: "US President is not just tearing up decades of global free trade infrastructure but doing away with the international rules-based system ... one of the consequences of this is that US primacy or US hegemony, will not be able to survive, and strangely America is the one that has set that in train, despite being the original architect of global free trade."
just the way terrorist putin ordered him to.
How is it even possible for this regime to continue when they never tell a single truth?
when did tRumputin ever tell a single truth in his life?? other opportunists see how he's getting away with it and join him - it's how society falls apart.
Thank you MeidasTouch! We need this kind of factual information and constant reminders( yes!!), of this felon’s lies, deceitful behavior and incompetence so we don’t think we’re going crazy!! Fight fire with fire..epic!!!
You know damned well the billionaire class took major advantage of the dip and bought stocks at bargain basement prices. Today, they’ve reaped millions in gains. It’s absolutely disgusting to watch.
Wait, he's bothered by yipping people. He's not seen anything yet. The people are organizing and will be screaming in droves. We're done yipping.
This is a shame what is happening to this country. School yard bullying and vengeance against anyone that crosses his path.i am so happy that Meidas is calling them out. Great job guys
Today, Rep. Steven Horsford grilled Jamison Greer, the U.S. Trade Representative, over the blatant manipulation of our stock market for Donald J. Trump’s personal financial gain. Greer had the audacity to claim that other countries begged Trump to lower tariffs. That is a flat-out lie. No country begged him—this was a calculated move for corrupt profit. This isn’t leadership, it’s criminal enterprise. Trump must be impeached immediately. Enough stalling. The American people are watching, and we demand accountability—now.
Excellent post!! One of the best I've ever read!
How do you reason with the unreasonable? This idiot is a narcissist and it feeds on whatever attention it can get. Dementia only makes it worse and he will continue to get worse. The better question is how long will it take for him to be removed because he is and has been mentally unfit to hold office? You are trying to argue with that, that cannot even understand what you are saying nor even wants to. If any of you have tried to reason with a very drunk person at a bar, you can multiply that by a ten times worse. Sooner or later the drunk passes out.... We could only hope so. It is the people that continue to support this moronic behavior that we should be targeting... it is our only hope. Vote and civil disobedience.
My sentiments and questions exactly!! Of an almost decade old age already.
He's using the tariffs like a cat plays with a mouse. Teasing, tormenting and kills it.
His arrogance has no measure. He needs to go.
that's what psychopaths do!! eureka!
Another example of Caligula 2.0 at the helm of our sinking vessel. Disgusting, distracting, painful, chaotic...in short, the 'deal' of the ignorant con man heel...The GOP spin is as expected...The WH spin, who cares, they only lie.
Of the many irreversible tragedies we are seeing and can expect to see more of, is the continuing assault on the middle class and the decline of the country into 3rd world status.
As MEIDAS pointed out, the promised factories and jobs will probably not happen in this extremely unpredictable economic condition.
Great. Is he going to pay back what everyone lost the last few days? His family made billions messing with the market.
The Art of the Flinch: Emperor of Economic Illiteracy Retreats
It took less than a week for Donald Trump’s vaunted “Liberation Day” tariffs—a tantrum dressed up as trade policy—to collapse under the weight of their own stupidity. Having imposed a reckless, inflationary tax on nearly every country on Earth, Trump has now “paused” his economic arson spree, slashing his universal tariffs to a still-insane 10% while simultaneously detonating a 125% tariff on China.
Trump’s deranged post on Truth Social reads like a drunk Monopoly player flipping the board, then declaring victory for everyone. He bloviates about “lack of respect,” “currency manipulation,” and “non-monetary tariffs,” stringing together economic terms like a toddler with a label maker. But let’s be clear: this isn’t policy. It’s performance art for people who think yelling “China” counts as a fiscal plan.
Wall Street rallied—because markets crave predictability, and chaos narrowly averted is the closest thing Trump offers. But don’t mistake that for a win. A blanket 10% tariff is still an economic time bomb, a working-class tax hike by any other name, disproportionately slamming the poor while the wealthy move their portfolios offshore.
As Trump was busy spewing gibberish online, his own trade representative was blindsided mid-testimony. Meanwhile, his press secretary defended the chaos by invoking The Art of the Deal, as if this erratic vacillation were somehow evidence of genius rather than dysfunction. Spoiler: It’s not dealmaking when you're negotiating against your own policy blunder.
A 125% tariff on China? That’s not leverage. It’s lunacy. It will kneecap entire industries—apparel, electronics, toys—whose supply chains run through the very country Trump is now economically waterboarding.
This is not the behavior of a master strategist. It’s the flailing of a man who governs with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the foresight of a goldfish.
@patricemersault
the worst part is that lots of msm (except hopefully MSNBC) will go with his crazy "victory" delusion.
Even though 5 days ago, Rachel Maddow excellently exposed it all! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJbZCbBLqkk
and Brian Tyler Cohen few hours ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VuSZpniBfY
His start and stop cycle is just creating more and more rage. Hopefully this results in more standing up.
Better be so!! I don't wanna hear "he won"-s..t!!
How many lies?!?!?!
Unfortunately the spin is NOT "humiliating," it's DEVIOUS & venal & a blatant example of avaricious manipulation, while what IS humiliating is the utter failure of Congress & American media & the vast electorate to be appropriately outraged. The snark is fine, in its place, but we've been dragged so far past that point that despair feels like a starting point. Whither from here, yo' 2nd person plural?
My sentiments exactly, it's why I'm livid tonight and this morning.
What a bunch of stupid liars
He is keeping this dangling so when he wants some more money he can do it again. Just like he wanted a pending charge hanging over Chicago’s mayor
....NYC's mayor which is even more embarrassing for USA....
He says people are getting "yippy" in such a sarcastic tone. And she says the president is putting the "world on notice". Yes, we are extremely "yippy" and ready to bite as the president puts America on notice.
She is lying
leavitt bimbo is lying, yep.
Wall Street rallied—because markets crave predictability, and chaos narrowly averted is the closest thing Trump offers. But don’t mistake that for a win. A blanket 10% tariff is still an economic time bomb, a working-class tax hike by any other name, disproportionately slamming the poor while the wealthy move their portfolios offshore.
It’s not dealmaking when you're negotiating against your own policy blunder.
A 125% tariff on China? That’s not leverage. It’s lunacy. It will kneecap entire industries—apparel, electronics, toys—whose supply chains run through the very country Trump is now economically waterboarding.
LOSER!
Seems like some more charges could be added to his "impressive" list of criminal charges and convictions. This is NOT "The Art of the Deal"! Market manipulation. STOP. Maybe a trip to El Salvador is in order.
Ever since the psychopath tRumputin sensed a hesitancy of a year and a half of almost wasted years in the President Biden's merrick garland's lack of charges and indictments, the psychopath got emboldened to gish-gallop his additional crime sprees to countless, esp. since the unthinkable nov. 6th 2024 on, 'cause all he's got is the sheer evil spiteful caprice with which he thinks he overfloods every zone and thusly breaks any opponents. That is why the timely, swift action on the side of President Biden's Merrick Garland was needed very, very soon after Jan 6th 2021!! But... we know how Garland was unfortunately wasting his initial almost 2 years time re: tRumputin&his innermost orbit.
This is so disgusting.
And yet... This must be 4-dimensional chess. Right? Right. 😵💫
Market manipulation and insider trading.
IT (CHEETO BOY)
IS ATTACKING EDUCATION
THE KNOWLEDGE TO RESIST.
AND: LEADERSHIP!!
RUBIO: WANTS ABILITY TO
DEPORT—- ANY CITIZEN!!!
Watch: "Trump BOOED by THOUSANDS at Coachella, during Bernie Sanders Surprise", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)......
https://youtube.com/shorts/Vd7c9Ee9MXc?si=UB9sjmjDB7Q1t30v
Watch: "LIVE: Legal AF RESPONDS to BREAKING LEGAL NEWS - 4/12/25 | Legal AF", on YouTube. (AF Legal/Meidas Touch)......
https://www.youtube.com/live/ZXrMuLX977o?si=QXb1T7XicAR32l9x
Watch: "WOW: 36,000+ People Attend Bernie/AOC 'Fighting Oligarchy' Rally Today", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)......
https://youtube.com/shorts/F5_ex1yGNuo?si=060J3LAGXtyCgELN
"Meidas Becomes Fastest Growing Substack Channel." (Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network,
Apr 12, 2025)......
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-becomes-fastest-growing-substack?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3078900&post_id=161161083&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Watch: "Trump SLAMS Himself in Oval Office Tirade", on YouTube
(Mary Trump)......
https://youtu.be/WGSh84ELByc?si=lfL-3nX_Qy_UJHfJ
He is manipulating the market to make a killing for himself and his fellow inside traders.
Donald keeps doing major damage! To our neighbors! To our allies! To our economy! To our kids! Impeach this loose ass hole please!!
INSIDER TRADING. FULL STOP. PERIOD. Martha Stewart went to jail for it, will DT?
"Tell Congress To Protect Your Vote and Block the SAVE Act."
"Voting is a fundamental right for all American citizens, but many politicians want to silence us by implementing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
This act would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person, when registering to vote, or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate, at their local election office.
This SAVE Act threatens to disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women, who have married, do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.
The only Americans who stand to benefit from the SAVE Act are out-of-touch politicians who are willing to trade Americans’ right to vote for political points with the media and the administration. These politicians are trying to use claims of election integrity to trick us into making it harder for millions of eligible American citizens to cast their vote.
This bill has already passed in the House of Representatives. Tell the Senate to vote no on the SAVE Act and protect our right to vote." (American Progress)......
https://www.americanprogress.org/take-action/tell-congress-to-protect-your-vote-and-block-the-save-act/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8rqmF8YqjAhNZbUfoBWNaJJTRcWd7x28LjRT2mslsD-jOZaZKtKO_q4x4jU7YyzlbuT45KVtdqF1RVw57Od0HDPisHpw&_hsmi=356169768&utm_content=356169768&utm_source=hs_email
If you only knew how many times I've already signed that.
Me too, Vel!
It’s everything. Manipulation. Lying. Stupidity. And he will now claim he has saved the stock market.
I hear you! I have been worked up since 2015. I have lost sleep, lost family members, lost thousands and thousands of dollars, to name just a few … worked up indeed.
Good folks, do NOT let him claim that!! that newest perversion is why I'm worked-up since yesterday.
So he can gain more $$$ in 89 days and pull the same shit again.
Not one ounce of panic! Deliberate move
Someone tell the followers of this self proclaimed Emperor that he has no clothes on!
We poor peasants deserve better! I would sure appreciate a look at the family financial records to check for insider trading over this past seven days!
Watch "Trump Witness CRUMBLES Under CROSS-EXAM at Hearings", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)......
https://youtu.be/u1gcU3XeBos?si=FXoioTFxW-Evtm6A
"Republicans In Disarray, As Mike Johnson Postpones Vote On Senate Budget."
"Trump urged House Republicans to "close your eyes and get there," but they just don't want to do it." (Huff Post)......
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-budget-vote-postponed-trump_n_67f6ed88e4b0212bce8681a2?link_id=9&can_id=56bdad496d5a1d659d2f23c00c81d0e3&source=email-trump-commits-flagrant-crime-in-front-of-entire-world&email_referrer=email_2691997&email_subject=trump-commits-flagrant-crime-in-front-of-entire-world&&
"‘This was the plan’: Fox News hosts unashamedly celebrate Trump backing down on tariffs."
"Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, Jesse Watters? and Jean Pirro are among hosts who say the president’s 90 freeze was President Donald Trump’s ‘plan all along’.
The MAGA cult leader's shameless sycophants at Fox have rolled out the most preposterous explanation for Donald's embarrassing about-face on his market-crashing tariff crusade, betraying an even greater level of disdain for their viewing audience, than previously thought possible.
Folks, if they think they can sell this steaming pile of bullsh*t, there really is no limit on how far they will go to prop up Dear Leader." (The Independent)......
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariff-pause-fox-news-china-b2730761.html?link_id=7&can_id=56bdad496d5a1d659d2f23c00c81d0e3&source=email-trump-commits-flagrant-crime-in-front-of-entire-world&email_referrer=email_2691997&email_subject=trump-commits-flagrant-crime-in-front-of-entire-world&&
Watch: "Top Republican ABANDONS Trump, as support craters", on YouTube. (BRIAN TYLER COHEN)......
https://youtu.be/3pnXGJykquk?si=hL8yk7xKPApBraax
"Trump accused of "market manipulation", after abrupt U-turn on tariffs."
"Days after dismissing literally all the warning signs of the needless harm his stupid tariff crusade would inflict, Donald Trump urged the world to "be cool" on Wednesday, even as the catastrophic impact of his import taxes took effect, crashing global markets and sending shockwaves through the US economy.
Minutes after trading began on Wall Street, the authoritarian nincompoop declared: "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!"
But hours later, the MAGA cult leader performed an extraordinary U-turn, pausing and reducing tariffs on most nations for 90 days, while increasing levies on imports from China to 125 percent.
Markets predictably surged, and White House officials — who spent days insisting Trump would "never" back down — claimed "this was his strategy all along" and simply "the art of the deal" at work.
We'll cut straight to the chase: certain, well-connected people made BILLIONS of dollars yesterday as Donald jerked the markets to his worm-addled whims, and we need full-throated investigations immediately, to find out exactly who." (The Independent)......
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-china-live-updates-b2730469.html?link_id=2&can_id=56bdad496d5a1d659d2f23c00c81d0e3&source=email-trump-commits-flagrant-crime-in-front-of-entire-world&email_referrer=email_2691997&email_subject=trump-commits-flagrant-crime-in-front-of-entire-world&&
Watch: "🚨 EVIDENCE of Trump Stock MANIPULATION This Morning", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)......
https://youtube.com/shorts/TshytIMRI6c?si=NgOdZcQCQjkN0DbO
Watch: "Market Manipulation RED FLAGS SURFACE on Trump DECISION", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)......
https://youtu.be/hlgGJUP_MI4?si=gZRKxOGAPcrGmE07
yes. Martha Stewart went to jail for this. precedent has been set.
I'm pretty sure Martha Stewart went to jail for waaaay less than this.
“Loosing money costs nothing”! The art of the Fool.
His term “yippy” is a stretch on a golf term, “the Yips” which is a phrase that is used when a golfer gets nervous over a 3’ Putt. So based on his constant deflection… sounds like HE is Nervous!!!
Fucking Republicans!
What a joke…The art of the Deal…Is a failed remedy that Trump concocted to impress the gullible….The whiplash way he controls his narrative to convince those who believe in him is pathetic to say the least…This power he has is nothing but destructive and let the rallies continue especially on the steps of the Supreme Court who gave him this reckless power that we are Not happy with…They need to see us…