r/PoliticalHumor • u/Leraldoe • 1d ago
After hearing trump claiming “I crashed the markets on purpose” after markets tanked and not before
Once the market is down 4k in two days and is at -2400 after hours is when he declares this lol
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 23h ago
News: Trump crashed the markets.
Karoline Leavitt: Fake news. The president did not crash the market. That was Joe Biden.
Trump: I CRASHED THE MARKET ON PURPOSE!
Every fucking day
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u/DeanOnFire 22h ago
I will pledge fealty to the first reporter that asks her point-blank if she is either knowingly lying or completely clueless. We the People (who are paying attention) know she's full of it, but I want someone on the record to tell it to her face.
Press permissions are getting pulled anyway for Right-Wing bloggers, may as well go down swinging.
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u/Gary_The_Strangler 1d ago
It takes a special kind of stupid to think trump could win a trade war with the rest of the world when he has already lost a trade war with only China.
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u/lilbithippie 18h ago
Wars are usually trying to do something. Annex land, procure resources, stop genocide of a group. Trump seemingly has no goal here. Just start some shit and see what happens I guess?? Because he never said tarrifs are going to drop tax for us, with higher prices he is going to socialize medicine. What do we the people get with all of his winning?
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u/Khunning_Linguist 23h ago
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u/Intelligent-Fuel-641 I ☑oted 2024 21h ago
The only surprising part of that is he went twelve years between bankruptcies. I wonder who was funding his operations during that time.
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u/VoxCacophoni 23h ago
Part of me wonders if this isn't just him flailing around and going "I meant to do that".
On one hand, he's so obsessively narcissistic that he won't contemplate admitting a mistake, but on the other he's so massively corrupt, malicious and self-serving that running the entire economy onto the rocks so he can pick the bones is entirely within his warped character.
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u/MongoBongoTown 22h ago
IMO people who think this is some big master plan, either malicious or benevolent, are out of their mind.
He's a moron, the people around him are morons. Sure, some mega corporate donors probably want tariffs to serve their own self interest, but it also lets him play big, tough, strong leader and bully others on an economic level.
This idea that he's playing master manipulator in either direction just isnt supported by any other piece of evidence we've seen.
We do however have piles and piles of evidence that he's an absolute idiot, surrounded by idiots, who just do stuff from the hip because they think it sounds good. So, that seems way more likely to me.
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u/VoxCacophoni 22h ago
At this point, it seems impossible to tell what they were trying to do, they've made such a colossal pig's arse out of things.
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u/craigsler 22h ago
They are imbeciles, to be sure.
But don't forget about Project2025. There is a plan in play, and they're following the steps pretty closely so far.
Much of it involves wreaking havoc and chaos. I'd say they're carrying it out pretty successfully thus far.
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u/Substantial-Sky3597 22h ago
This all day. They call it “evil” because of his narcissism, which makes everything he does look like an evil plan but it really isn’t. He’s an idiot who surrounds himself with obedient idiots who all shoot from the hip based on absolutely no experience, no training, and no skill set towards any of the things they have control over.
That is all that’s happening here.
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u/bob4apples 21h ago
This is exactly that. The noises that come out of Trump's fry hole mean nothing except that that is what Trump thinks will make him look better to the person in front of him at that moment.
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u/Personal_titi_doc 1d ago
6, and honestly, the american stock market is a casino, so I would argue 7.
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u/moschocolate1 22h ago
It seems they’re doing this on purpose so he and his billionaire buddies can scoop up real estate, stocks, etc at low prices. Am I crazy for thinking this?
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u/NeonArlecchino 21h ago
Nah, you're right. Some people just want to believe that Trump is the type of moron who can't wipe his own ass so claim everything he does is done out of sheer stupidity. They're right he's an idiot, but such a belief erases the evil people around him who help guide his actions and/or advise/tell him what to do. It's like they forgot Project 2025 exists.
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u/Dawnchaffinch 22h ago
Trying to lower rates. Crashing economy before inflation rips is the reason for the speed run. And of course what you said
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u/TentacleFist 23h ago
Millions of votes were thrown out and voter registrations purged, especially in swing states.our election was stolen right in front of us and our leaders just rolled over to the coup. This is an illegitimate presidency.
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u/treker32 21h ago
4.6 million votes thrown out by a corrupt political party and the MS corporate news media remained silent.
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u/Mazon_Del 23h ago
You see, here's the thing about that idea... someone might say "Well, if he said that's what he wanted to do, then the market just wouldn't react and it would ruin the strategy.", except that people would STILL have reacted to the tariffs in the exact same way.
It doesn't matter if they thought he was doing it on purpose, doing it without realizing, or doing it because he thought the Flying Spaghetti Monster told him to. What matters is that the prices went up so companies have to respond.
So given that him saying ahead of time wouldn't change anything even slightly, if you choose to believe him, you must also provide an answer for why a man who virtually ALWAYS tells you ahead of time what he's going to do, didn't say a word about it this time?
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u/orincoro 23h ago edited 21h ago
A “trade war” is stupid terminology because it implies someone wins. Everyone loses in a trade war. It’s more of a “trade punch yourself in the face contest.”
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u/dishonorable_banana 22h ago
I'd hope that most Trump voters don't agree with and didn't vote to crash the economy. This is a clear sign that they don't care about future votes....O.I.R.
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u/villianrules 22h ago
Unfortunately it's a win as long as the undesirables are suffering
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u/NeonArlecchino 21h ago
Don't forget making the wealthy wealthier. They may not be doing anything with their money, but they sure want more of it!
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u/chickberry33 22h ago
IMHO ..He did steal the election of 24 with Elon..because he wanted to hurt us all. He has not been shy about sharing his revenge plans. Pure hate and evil with a red tie and a gang of thieves to assist. People thought it would bring lib tears so they cheered him on. Turns out he meant the whole world.
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u/ipsi-dixit 21h ago
It takes a special kind of stupid to impose tariffs on an island that does not export goods.
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u/William_Wang 21h ago
What kind of genius do you think it takes to crash the market and then buy stuff while its down?
It wasn't a secret tariffs would do this.
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u/victorbarst 20h ago
Can someone in his cabinet please ask him to confirm that he understand the country can't declare bankruptcy? Because I'm not convinced he's not purposefully trying to drive the country into bankruptcy to try to get us a bailout and I'm not he understands there's no bailout for a country
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u/damageddude 20h ago
I'm afraid to look at my daughter's college portfollio. What I have in cash is enough to pay for public university, not the private university she wants to go to.
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u/DaveinOakland 20h ago
And a University which is kind of more impressive
Literally the two businesses that seem unfuckupable are schools and casinos.
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u/This-Establishment35 18h ago
He’s getting rid of the immigrants and bringing back manufacturing all while crashing the economy and creating even greater wealth gaps, so that every American can all have a nice union free factory job! The American Dream! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/Wheatabix11 18h ago
Well, if you’re a corporation or just really wealthy this is just a buying dip. If you’re like most of us it‘s an unemployment dip. So much buying wealthliness in the golden age of the magaliciousness.
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u/ChuckThisNorris 16h ago
Fun fact:
9 of the 10 worst single-day crashes in the Dow Jones happened while Donald Trump was president.
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u/ruddy3499 15h ago
I’m picturing him in high waters with his thumbs in his suspenders saying Did I do that?
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u/firelock_ny 15h ago
Here's a short list of bankrupt Las Vegas casinos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_casinos_in_the_Las_Vegas_Valley
There's 63 of them on this list.
People who think running a casino is an automatic pass to print money don't know much about casinos.
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u/Leraldoe 14h ago
Thanks for providing a list of defunct casinos no where near a list of bankrupt casinos. The Dunes didn’t file for bankruptcy, the owner closed it instead of upgrading it. Building the Bellagio in its place. Some will have bankrupted but not all of these.
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u/HecticHermes 15h ago
Don't forget about the fraudulent Trump University. The one graduating class has the honor of taking a photo with ..... A cardboard cutout of Trump.
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u/Prometheus_303 12h ago
Why do you think they're trying to kill the Department of Education
So there will be even more who fall into the "special kind of" category to expand their voter base to keep them in power.
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u/pareech 1d ago
He didn't bankrupt 4 casinos, that's an outright lie. He bankrupted 6 casinos.