r/stocks • u/RevolutionaryMany831 • 3d ago

Rule 3: Low Effort Is it possible that Trump’s tariffs are a massive pump and dump scheme?

EDIT: I’m not an investor, just asking a question.

Trump controls the SEC and DOJ, so who’s going to investigate or stop him?

Is it possible that Trump, his family, and billionaire buddies are benefiting from Trump’s tariffs?

Trump could be letting them know the date and time that he’s going to make the announcement to impose tariffs. Like many investors, they pull their investments but, they have a head start due to their insider knowledge.

Then he lets those on the inside know that he’s going to rescind tariffs and the date and time which he will be announcing that.

They buy the dip and profit as the market rebounds.

Rinse and repeat.

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u/Redditer80 3d ago

He's doing what Russia groomed him to do.

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u/FlounderBubbly8819 1d ago

Truth it that the order of weird human actions and the why comes in this order.

Stupidity. (Overwhelmingly Likely) Incompetence. (Highly Likely) Malice. (Somewhat Likely) But people always jump to the least likely of the 3 because we are always looking for it, people like to believe evil explains it all, when evil is usually the least likely.

The biggest threat of humanity is idiots, not evil.

And we'd even demonize those idiots later just to keep our agenda, thinking that they did this all in some grand plot, rather than, mere idiocracy. These include grand evil characters of the past, that were more idiot than evil and that's how they sent the world to chaos.

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u/Redditer80 1d ago

There's a lot of books writing about his ties to Russia since the 80's. Not to use these words like the typical conspiracy theorist, but he does appear to be acting like there is some allegiance to Russia for reasons which appear obvious. Not to mention a lot of what he does was done in Russia in the past