Posted on 04/05/2025 4:56:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump shared a TikTok video on his Truth Social account that asserted that he is crashing the stock market intentionally.
“Trump is crashing the stock market by 20% this month, but he’s doing it on purpose. This is why Warren Buffett just said Trump is making the best economic moves he’s seen in over 50 years,” the narrator of the video said.
“Here’s the secret game he’s playing, and it could make you rich. So why is he doing this? To push cash into Treasuries, which forces the Fed to slash interest rates in May, and those lower rates give the Fed the ability to refinance trillions of debt very inexpensively. It also weakens the dollar and drops mortgage rates,” he said.
“It’s a wild chess move, but it is working. You’re probably wondering: What about his tariffs?” the narrator continued.
“It’s a genius play. It actually forces companies to build here to dodge them. It also forces farmers to sell more of their products here in the U.S. to bring grocery prices way down- we’ve already seen this with eggs. Now, remember, 94% of all stocks are owned by 8% of Americans. So Trump is taking from the rich, short term, and handing it to the middle class via lower prices,” he said.
WATCH:
Trump announced on Friday morning that Vietnamese leader To Lam is willing to eliminate tariffs to avoid punishing new U.S. duties imposed on the Southeast Asian nation’s imports.
“Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S. I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future,” Trump wrote.
“News of the call, which Trump posted about on social media, sent stocks of companies that make some of their goods in Vietnam higher. Shares in Nike, for example, jumped more than 4%. The Trump administration had levied tariffs of 46% on Vietnam earlier this week. Trump said Friday he looked forward to meeting with To Lam in the near future,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
This comes as the U.S. economy boomed in March, adding jobs at a faster pace than in February despite additional economic uncertainty over Trump’s tariff policies.
The Labor Department said on Friday that employers added 228,000 jobs in March, which was more than the 135,000 jobs that LSEG economists thought would be added.
The unemployment rate was 4.2%, which was a little higher than a month ago and higher than what economists thought it would be. It was decided that the number of jobs added in January and February had been wrong. In January, the number of jobs added was lowered from 125,000 to 111,000, while in February, it was lowered from 151,000 to 117,000.
Altogether, the changes bring down the number of jobs by 48,000 from what was initially reported.
In March, the private sector added 209,000 jobs, which is a lot more than the 127,000 jobs that LSEG economists thought would be added.
In March, the government added 19,000 jobs. In this sector, federal employment fell by 4,000 jobs in March, following a drop of 11,000 jobs in January. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers who are on paid leave or who are getting severance pay are still counted as employed in the establishment survey.
The manufacturing sector added 1,000 jobs last month, which was less than the 4,000 jobs that LSEG economists thought it would add.
This is our last chance. The future is very dark if Trump does not succeed. I mean dark as in WWIII dark.
I think most of them will be temporary if other nations negotiate.
The article may be false, but Dinesh D’Souza is where I got it from.
https://x.com/DineshDSouza/status/1908666101124194545
Wrong globalist, your tariff free trade into the USA is no more. At a minimum the 10% across the board baseline tariff is here to stay. At least that is my impression
Trump did repost it
First of all SP500 was at 5202 a year ago. It closed at 5074 on Friday closing. That is down less than 2.5% for previous 12 months. Same index of 500 largest capitalized companies was down 30% when covid hit the world.
Why is this 2.5% a big deal? SP500 recorded high of 6145 during last 12 months. That is a gain of 18.2%, annualized at 20%+ . If investors expect 20% gains in this broad market index every year, they are badly uninformed about the stock market. Over previous 100 years, the average gain/year is less than 7%. And everyone knows the stock market has wild fluctuations.
I agree with you. If the trade imbalance is allowed to continue, Americans will be crossing the south border into Mexico.
Anyway, what is it with you globalist free traitor nazi’s? You people are sick dangerous individuals.
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What’s wrong with you? Why are you so angry? Go back to Twitter if you want to be so base.
btw, free trade is the bomb. Why should we have to pay 200% tarrif just to sell our products in Japan, while we let them come into USA and undercut our production? This started back in the 1970’s. We need to manufacture our products once again, rather than import. I guess, that makes me, NOT A FREE TRADER.?? I didn’t do too well in Econ 201.
It makes you a FAIR trader.
FAIR trade is that foreign countries can not drive our manufacturing out of business because our businesses must follow good practices to keep the environment clean., to provide a safe work environment, to pay workers a decent wage with decent benefits.
If you pollute your country of origin, use slave labor, don't provide good health care or your government subsidizes you by providing health care then you will get a tariff to even the playing field. That's before we look at what your tariffs are set at.
-The article is evidently false.-
The article is false and was also posted yesterday so we can expect the false article to be posted again tomorrow!!
If it was still posted I would have seen it when I searched and not posted it again. 🤡
Those of us who have fattened up our 401K's on the backs of many working Americas, have hollowed out our country.
Besides, it will be just another stock market dip, like all the others, that will be a distant memory a year from now.
Barb your post was not for me, right?
Trump raises eyebrows by sharing video claiming he’s ‘purposely CRASHING the market’
04/04/2025 11:12:04 AM PDT · by joesbucks
Posted under a different title so search would not find it.
Yes, FAIR Trade.
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Attention to all:
When you post this false artcle tomorrow you have to change the title from all past titles used for the false article or the search would identify the false article as a repeat.
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