r/Enough_Sanders_Spam • u/david7494 • 1d ago

Article Trump's Treasury secretary 'looking for an exit door' after two months on the job: MSNBC

https://www.rawstory.com/bessent-trump-tariffs/
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u/AdmiralSaturyn 1d ago

HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

"My sources say that Scott Bessent is kind of the odd man out here and, in the inner circle that Trump has, he's not even close to Scott Bessent or listening to him," she told host Joe Scarborough. "Some have said to me, he's looking for an exit door to try to get himself to the Fed, because in the last few days he's really hurting his own credibility and history in the markets."

What the fuck did this dipshit expect?

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u/my_mo_is_lurk 1d ago

Anybody who was alive during Trump I and said “yeah, I want this again” (or in this case “yeah, I wanna be a part of this”) is irredeemably stupid. Not a single thought worth considering.

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u/Chumlee1917 1d ago

or evil, can't forget evil.

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u/ScheisseSchwanz 1d ago

this makes sense cause Bessent is gay (but not DEI gay so he's "one of the good ones") but I'm sure Trump is afraid to shake his hand

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u/methedunker 1d ago

How do most outsiders, like us, already know that everyone in Trump's circle will get burned one way or another, and yet idiots like Bessent still think they are immune? Did they forget the revolving door administration from 2017?

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u/jasonab 1d ago

to steelman this: I think we can all agree that Trump's first-term advisors prevented him from doing all this insane stuff. Maybe Bessent thought he was going to be Mnuchin instead of Scaramucci.

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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo 1d ago

I think a lot about that one anonymous quote from his first term that was something like “you guys have no idea how much really crazy stuff we kill”. Have a feeling we’re gonna find out this time…

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u/captmonkey 1d ago

People forget, or don't realize because they don't keep up with the news, that Trump literally wanted to launch missiles into Mexico to stop the cartels. This is the kind of thing that got pushback in his first term and I guess in his second term we'd just be bombing Mexico.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/politics/mark-esper-book-trump.html

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u/iStayedAtaHolidayInn 1d ago

He wanted to nuke hurricanes. Hurricanes

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u/Brndrll 21h ago

Nuke the hurricanes!

Tarrify the penguins!

Steal all the cheese back from the moon!!

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u/Currymvp2 1d ago

What the hell did they think was gonna happen?

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u/TrashRacoon42 1d ago

They thought trump wasn't serious about the Tarriffs and wouldn't double down. These worms are just evil not evil geniuses they only look intelligent in compared to trump.

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u/Aravinda82 1d ago

This will drive markets lower on Monday. Market was counting on him to be an adult in the room.

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u/BoysenberryLanky6112 1d ago

Yep just a reminder as always that the market is forward looking. The drop the last two days were not the extent of economic damage from the tariffs, they have priced in the possibility that the bad economic news will get Trump to reverse course. If he stays the course expect the last two days to look like a small blip.

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u/Aravinda82 1d ago

Oh he’s staying the course

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u/Kugel_the_cat 1d ago

I was really surprised that it took this long to get a big reaction. I think that it will have to fall 20% total before we start seeing serious action. I’m not sure what that is but anywhere from the bill to make tariffs exclusively under the purview of congress to a full blown coup.

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u/IndWrist2 1d ago

I think we’ll see a pattern similar to 87, where there was a 9ish % drop on the preceding Thursday/Friday and then a 20%+ drop on the following Monday.

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u/Calm-Purchase-8044 1d ago

I predict at least 30%

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u/CinnamonMoney 1d ago

The extra funny party is that he thinks: Trump would put him on the Fed, that he would be safe from Trump’s tyranny on the Fed, and that his credibility hasn’t already changed

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u/ScheisseSchwanz 1d ago

The same Scott Bessent who said "The American Dream was never about being able to buy things"?

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u/CookiePneumonia 1d ago

Lmao. These fuckers...

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u/CinnamonMoney 1d ago

Say Hi to George for me!!!!!

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u/TheExtremistModerate 💎🐊The Malarkey Ends Here🕶🍦 1d ago

How many mooches is that, again?

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u/Liberty_Chip_Cookies 🇺🇦 Slava Ukrayiny 🇺🇦 1d ago

6.7, so far.

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u/BrandoPolo 1d ago

Translation: Bessent's social and personal life are imploding as the gay community excommunicates him for his complicity with fascism and the reckless, incompetent MAGA movement that's crashing the economy with mass layoffs and inflation tariffs.

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u/Fanraeth2 1d ago

He’s just mad the twinks with daddy issues won’t fuck him when they find out he works for Trump