Yep. He knows this was a bad play but is too arrogant and prideful to pull back now, even if this all sends the whole world into the next great depression.
Don't believe it.
#Trump knows who will pay these tariffs.
It's always a robbery with the Republicans, and they want to steal US Taxpayer's money.
#FuckTrump #ImportTariffs
All of his actions for this term are 'Narcissistic Rage' against anyone who stood up to him, called him out on his bad behavior, prosecuted or sued him for bad behavior or didn't vote for him. His support or supply are disposable to reach his vengeance.
Trump wanted to be loved adored and worshipped like Elvis, but most of America just thought he was a spoiled rich weirdo from Queens who wasn’t talented at anything. But Russia took him in and cuddled him. And now, the revenge tour.
I do not think so Stephen. I think, like so many kings of old, including King George, he wants to strike fear into the population to make it more submissive to his will. Shows he failed history. Americans have never been good at that, kowtowing to threats is not our way.
The same issue is happening in the Turkey of Erdogan's Economy. This duo -Erdogan & Trump- intervenes in our fate in our country with pure and unadulterated ugliness. I have deliberately not used the expression ‘in the Economy of Erdogan's Turkey’.
Please, keep an eye on Turkey. Erdogan & Trump duo organized with Elon Musk to close the accounts of the people of Turkey on X and put them in jail. Erdogan raises prices like crazy at night.
He officially removed the Republic part of the Republic of Turkey. Trump-Erdogan duo also put their political opponents in jail. There is a serious popular uprising and violence and economic and dictatorial crisis in Turkey, World history. Actors are being arrested, and screenwriters re being fired.
Even psychiatrists are being arrested. He with support from Trump and Elon, is out of control. People are being detained. There are sexual assaults on women. On 5 April lawyers, women's confederation and associations and women will rise up. And watch these people on Bsky. People are organizing here.
Is Trump shorting the market on purpose for personal financial gain while President?Trump could easily remove the tariffs this Monday after his golf game and make gobs of money by knowing in advance of a stock price rise.Is Trump allowed to play the market while also acting as President of the USA?
The Trump Crime family have been laundering money for the mob since Trump was a child. He grew up with it.
He knows Mob tactics cold. We need to frame his behaviour in this manner, to understand it.
Yup, He also been laundering money for Russian mobsters. In fact the KGB has been grooming Trump for a long time. Most of the buildings he owns are leased by Russian's and Saudi's. Interestingly, American mobsters don't trust him. He runs his mouth too much.
Any asshole with money would be buying stocks like crazy right now! When the panicking fools calm down you would have made mint. There is no conspiracy. just the old saying stupid is who stupid does ;-)
Pure vengeance 😡. Somebody is helping him come up with all these off the wall ideas 🤷♀️. I truly don’t think he smart enough to think about these ideas on his own. Besides always playing golf in FL 😡.
In 2/2022, I was took shelter from a wind storm in a shitty RV park in LaGrande, OR in my van on the way to UT. I noted on a nearby trailer a banner that read: Trump 2024, The Revenge Tour. I felt this cold chill, but still thot...no that could never happen...never. Here we are. 😑 We were warned.
I saw this riding the bus somewhere in LA a few months ago on someone's house. Can't remember if it was before or after the election, but I was like, really? This isn't a fucking game, but to them it is.
Trump et al are playing zero sum games with the whole world at this point. There should be consequences for this careless disregard & all the collateral damage they have done to the rest of us. I'm totally disgusted that are system has crumbled so quickly & the toadism of lawyers, unis, & GOP pols.
The destruction is massive & is costing us dear in both treasure & positive influence around the world. I'm departing for Denmark next Tue, a trip planned since before the election & I'm so ashamed of what is being done in my name. I am frightened & disgusted. The worst people rule us, not governing
We, the people of the world, stay with you. Not with your government and (in my case, I‘m from Germany) not with my government.
But we the people will stay together! ❣️
Early 2023 we were over seeing family on the west coast- did a trip down the 101 from WA to CA... lovely.
Drove back north through the middle of CA, OR and WA- Trump flags everywhere, several towns we wouldn't stop in.
Felt nasty.
I'm not surprised
Yeah, I'm in eastern WA. I now have developed tick that every time I see a Trump flag I automatically give it the one finger salute. 🖕🖕🖕 Just a reflex now.
I live in Central Washington and even back in 2023 and 2022, we’d still get the Trump truck parades driving around the tiny towns here. My husband’s from Iceland and his family was visiting when one of them went by our house, my husband’s aunt looked at him and said “you need to come back home!”
Oh wow. I'd move to Iceland in a minute. I've had idiots in trucks, rolling coal, harass us when we were peacefully protesting. A lot of good people in the eastern parts of both WA & OR. ID is a lost cause. I'm hoping we survive this. But if one more person tells me 'it'll be fine'. I might lose it.
Revenge on all of us. He hates the US. He’s still pissed off about 2020. Very obvious. He had the option of just playing golf for 4 years on taxpayer money and leaving everything else alone. But he is actively, intentionally burning it all down.
Because he hates us all and wants us to die. Well guess what? I've already been dead and threatening to kill someone who's been dead before just doesn't have the same effect.
“I think you have to understand them (mass tariffs) as irrational, which is to say they come from somewhere else in Donald Trump's psyche. And where they come from is his will to dominate, his aggressiveness, which he expresses every time he speaks.”
Quote from Rob Shapiro on Hopium on Substack
Yes, And this is to be expected under a dictatorship- we are no longer living in a democracy. Wake up, before we reach the point of no return. No one is safe. The rule of law is dying. Trump and the republicans support a authoritarian regime
I agree that he's come back with a vengeance, but it does have to do with the economy. Tanking stocks, so that the wealthy elite can buy them all up and take more control. More consolidating power of the elite, more consolidating power of the executive office...
he's desperate for the attention, and since he has no grasp how to create anything, he destroys.... because history remembers the destroyers. he is inexhaustible in his thirst to destroy, I'd say it's the only thing keeping him alive.
Hey @stephenking.bsky.social is the plan over there to suck all this up until the next election or is there any chance of the US doing anything a little punchier do
You think?
Four heroes came home in coffins. 🇺🇸
Lithuania showed up—president, citizens, honor in every hand over heart.
Our own leader? Golf clubs and donor checks.
Not a word. Not a mention. Didn’t even know who they were.
This isn’t leadership. It’s moral collapse. 🌓✨
Fucking moron Trump's golf trips have been estimated to cost taxpayers between $105 million and $142 million. These costs include Air Force One transport, Secret Service protection, and accommodation. One estimate projected a potential cost of over $340 million if he served a full eight-year term.
First the dumb old fck calls ya weak becos ya wore a mask at the height of a deadly covid wave of infections
Now he calls ya weak becos you refused to accept his stupid logic that totally screwing up American economy laying off thousands and massive bankruptcies will make America rich
YES! I keep seeing comments written by people who seem to think he just needs to be shown what's really happening, and he'll magically turn into a decent human being with a soul, demand a ride back to WA and sit down to fix this mess, like this wasn't the PLAN all along! He isn't the GRINCH, FFS!
It is his vengeance tour, but also Musk & Putin's attempt to establish a New World Order. Trump doesn't gaf as long as he's rich, can pretend he's powerful, and can play golf at the taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't care. The Saudis are paying him to play golf today, his favorite activity. And this country is being run by Musk, Thiel, and the Heritage Foundation.
Once upon a time, some basic dude was “motivated by resentment and revenge in response to prior narcissistic wounding and profound feelings of inferiority.” The Nazi political party killed roughly 17M people, not including casualties of WWII.
I believe that was the plan all along. Trump is deliberately crashing the stock market & yes, he knows exactly what he is doing. The goal has always been to make himself & his rich pals even richer. To hell with our country & our hard working Americans losing thousands of $$ from their IRAs.
Need list of top 25 #Republicans with the most convictions.
Once we have this lists we can start collecting information on them with #Anonymous. Anything illegal can be sent to their state attorney generals & if they are lawyers their state bar assoc. Reshare
Yeah, he's pissed about stuff, but this is a deliberate and strategic operation to bring down the US cobbled by American and Russian Oligarchs. And, no, for the most part they aren't working in concert. But they are working adjacently.
Yes I have been saying that since he got back in. He has not gotten over losing the 2020 election! I wonder what would happen if we didn’t mention him at all for one day. Just one day if no one watched faux. One day!
The Vengeance Tour sucks. He can't dance, the explosions were in the wrong places, the projectors failed, the backing track was out of tune, the backup singers forgot the words, the band forgot to mime playing, he forgot to lip sync, and the invisible melodeon disintegrated.
And you better like that comment because Autofuckitup on this goddamn phone can't figure out my accent, and phones are too tiny for tall people's fingers.
The tariffs Trump is imposing are nothing more than economic sanctions on the American people and our allies. He's punishing us for Putin, driving up costs for consumers, and disrupting supply chains, all while doing Putin’s bidding. This isn’t about strength or strategy; it’s about revenge.*repost
Yes, exactly! And you know what else it is? Its him and his cronies making Billions more from this market volitility. Not many are considering this, but he knows exactly what he is doing, playing the stock market like a violin.
Exactly what I say - isn’t it illegal for him to control markets like this and then benefit from it ??? Conflict of interest much??!! Lawyers HELP!! Can the public sue him? He’s doing the same with our public institutions
The Heritage Foundation is running their playbook through him, Musk is getting whatever he wants, and probably Putin too. He doesn't know enough about how shit works to be coming up with this on his own. He does what he's told, and his part of the deal is he gets to stay out of jail and play golf.
Beyond his assault on the economy, in concert with a chainsaw wielding oligarch, looking at the Orange Messiah's degradation of American institutions, rule of law, national security and democracy, Accom's Razor suggests he is simply Putin's bitch. Well played Vladimir.
It's a full-on attack on every American. Remember this: Congress can stop this nightmare at any time. The House can impeach him, the Senate can remove him. They could remove him for good in 48 hours. Will they? They just might.
So true. He has relined his pockets and he stayed out of jail. He’s got nothing to lose now so he is playing with the global economy like it’s his own personal monopoly game board.
**Putin's vengeance. No Russia on his tarrif chart, and firing of career counterintelligence officer that specialized in Russian affairs just yesterday. He's finishing what he was sent to do. Destroy us.
Revenge is part of it but it is mostly Trump using the office and the economic and military might of America to enrich and empower himself as dictator.
And Economy CRASHING is their agenda! It’s never been more obvious than now! But the REALITY is, he has no power without KKKongress, nor KKKlownCOTUS, so none of this would be happening without the AIDING and Abetting of Moscow MAGA Mitch, Putin and Elon!
I’ve heard it argued that his multiple bankruptcies weren’t due to incompetence, they were strategic decisions, intended to limit his losses in his divorce(s). Which, if credible, raises the question, what does he gain personally by crashing a robust economy and triggering a global recession?
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#Trump knows who will pay these tariffs.
It's always a robbery with the Republicans, and they want to steal US Taxpayer's money.
#FuckTrump #ImportTariffs
Sorry SK…. The Deadlights got nothing on the horror of MAGA
#DefundThePolice
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-shares-post-purposely-crashing-stock-market-1235310745/
His accountants are..
He knows Mob tactics cold. We need to frame his behaviour in this manner, to understand it.
To Trump, tariffs are a cudgel, a weapon. They're the brass knuckles on the fist of a bully who demands your lunch money.
Tariffs have nothing to do with economics. Absolutely nothing.
You can tell who pays him off by who gets exceptions to the tariffs.
But we the people will stay together! ❣️
Drove back north through the middle of CA, OR and WA- Trump flags everywhere, several towns we wouldn't stop in.
Felt nasty.
I'm not surprised
You know Donald Trump's modus operandi.
REPUGNICANS are setting up for a Jan 6, 2029 declaration of Military Law
Mark your calendar!
Marky Mark moved to Nevada and Ellen just MOVED OUT!
Quote from Rob Shapiro on Hopium on Substack
https://lokiexcelsiorsmith.substack.com/p/a-rogues-gallery-revue?r=fd4u4
The reasons he gives are a lie.
SMH..
You think?
Trump is such an embarresment to your country.
Lithuania showed up—president, citizens, honor in every hand over heart.
Our own leader? Golf clubs and donor checks.
Not a word. Not a mention. Didn’t even know who they were.
This isn’t leadership. It’s moral collapse. 🌓✨
Now he calls ya weak becos you refused to accept his stupid logic that totally screwing up American economy laying off thousands and massive bankruptcies will make America rich
of
Getting
Even
(From an astute BlueSkyer earlier today)
Sound familiar?
These folks, wrote what is now unfolding. And Trump is now an empty trojan horse virus. Useful as a talking head. They're feeding his ego so he rages.
Need list of top 25 #Republicans with the most convictions.
Once we have this lists we can start collecting information on them with #Anonymous. Anything illegal can be sent to their state attorney generals & if they are lawyers their state bar assoc. Reshare
Yeah, he's pissed about stuff, but this is a deliberate and strategic operation to bring down the US cobbled by American and Russian Oligarchs. And, no, for the most part they aren't working in concert. But they are working adjacently.
The chaos is meant to cover it.
Everyone thought he wanted revenge on someone else.
Russia has wanted that back for decades. In return, he’ll help Trump get Greenland
Practically, though: the chart was compiled by AI - it's essentially a list of internet top level domains - and Russia was removed from it.