Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

WHO GOT TO TRUMP? THE CORPORATE BILLIONAIRES? PROBABLY.



BREAKING: Trump pauses reciprocal tariffs for 90 days for everyone but China  



Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent REFUSES to explain Trump’s sudden reversal on tariffs. Who got to Trump? Who knew before? Did people benefit by buying stocks just before the announcement? We deserve answers. This chaos needs to end.







15 comments:

Shaw Kenawe said...

Chris Hayes: “You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.”

Shaw Kenawe said...

Mark Jacobs: “No, Trump isn't cratering our economy. The entire Republican Party is cratering our economy. The enablers deserve just as much blame as Trump.”

Agree. The Republicans Party is responsible for the chaos as a result of the ongoing madness of King Donald.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Trump’s middle name is Corruption: Trump tells his followers to buy stock in the morning, minutes after the market opens, then announces he is pausing tariffs 4 hours later.

Nothing to see here.

BB-Idaho said...

3 months of chaos and almost back to square one.

Dave Miller said...

Bessent has nothing to say because he's not allowed to voice his opinion, as a former financial whiz kid who knows tariffs are terrible.

And Baghdad Barbie carries on as if she's the female version of Sean Spicer...

Shaw Kenawe said...

Dave, BB-Idaho, I'm reading about how lots of Republican pols bought up lots of stock while the market was down, and now they're richer because of Trump's seeming manipulations.

I don't know if it's true, but it sure looks rotten. And illegal.

But we have an administration that's operating outside the law on so many things, that seems a trifle.

Dave Miller said...

Shaw... Like MTG?

Shaw Kenawe said...

‪John Fugelsang‬:

This isn't The Art of the Deal.
It's insider trading with a bad comb-over.

Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires
Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast
Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’
Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same

Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

possumlady said...

Now the Treasury Secretary is saying this was trump's plan all along - LOL!!! Reminds me of Jon Lovitz's character Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar, on SNL "Yeah, that's the ticket!"

Anonymous said...

Stock market is up over 3,000
points. This is unbelievable. It will prove that Trump was always right. This Really is “The Art of the Deal”.

Shaw Kenawe said...

First of all, Trump didn’t “write” The Art of the Deal.” I didn’t expect that you’d know that.

Second, you were had. Again.

Shaw Kenawe said...

This is for the troll who thinks Trump is a genius:


‪Dave Weigel‬
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"I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."

Shaw Kenawe said...

Yes. I read she bought up lots of stock while the market was down.

Anonymous said...

Trump is insane, everyone can see how insane Trump is!

But there were 77 million people that voted this lunatic into office as President & are identified with Trump’s madness, yet no one, no news media talks about the crazy 77 million Americans identified with Trump’s Erratic insane behavior.

possumlady said...

I think you meant to write: trump blinked