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/Careless-Pragmatic 3d ago

And North Korea….

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u/Gizzard04 3d ago

What are they exporting to the US? Nothing, a tariff on nothing is no tariff...

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u/Careless-Pragmatic 3d ago

Just pointing out they aren’t on the list,… even when he went to the trouble of putting an uninhabited territory with just penguins on the list.

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u/TaraRabenkleid 2d ago

He placed tariffs on uninhabited islands

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u/Gizzard04 2d ago

The penguins gotta pay their fair share, too!

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u/SarcasmGPT 2d ago

These so called penguins, are they penguins? They look black to me... Anyway, they expect us to keep the waters safe for free? They're giving us nothing and getting so much in return, absolute leeches. What do they eat? Fish, where are the fish? In our oceans that we're protecting. Less fish for your average Joe, pushing the price of fish sky high! It's lower than sleepy Joe's time of course because the dems let them do whatever they wanted!

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u/Real-Mouse-554 2d ago

Everything he does looks like a poorly executed group project in high school.

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u/AlphaOhmega 2d ago

There's dozens of countries and territories on that list that don't export anything and still have tariffs imposed...

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u/Gizzard04 2d ago

Cool. I commented on North Korea...which turns out to have exported about 56k worth of plastics in 2024.

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u/punica-1337 2d ago

Russia's exports to the US in 2024 (iirc) amounted to 3.5 billion worth of goods.

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u/Space-Turtle88 2d ago

Apparently they do export to us. Its not a lot, but they do.