Really Ackman, if you mean the insider type trading he and his cronies did I suppose you are right, if you mean announcing big tariffs to get other countries groveling at his feet, it was a big disaster. Other countries know they have leverage over the felon.
This is why colt members say about their leader. He’s godlike perfect makes no flaws. The rest of us realize he’s a fucking moron and he’s only for himself and his rich billionaire buddies like my granddad said he punch a bully in the nose and he’ll leave you alone time to punch the bully.
There is no art in backing down. And I am so sick of hearing the Art Of The Deal. He was the only person saying he makes good deals. Just like now with oh everything
This gutless asshole Ackman is a bottom dweller who lives off the carcass of dead women & children. He is scum of the earth! Cowards say anything to continue to feed off the dead.
The book that Trump didn't actually write. 🙄 He had the attention span of a gnat, so Tony Swartz had to write the entire thing based off of glimpses of Trump's life while he followed him through is daily dealings. To quote Tony, "I put lipstick on a pig."
The truth is very different: the US doesn't have the capacity to blackmail every country in the world at once, and The Orange Guy isn't the emperor of the world.
What was happening in the stock markets and with Treasury bonds was just the beginning.
It's not the least bit surprising coming from Ackman. Money doesn't infer intelligence and he's obviously not that intelligent, he just has lots of money.
No doubt ackman bought a ton of stock yesterday after getting the smoke signal from Mango Mussolini. Now he sits on it until the next tariff announcement.
In my younger years, I was wondering how the divine right of kings happened. I asked myself, "I wonder who was the first type of person that acceded their personal autonomy to allow for a king to rule over them."
Brilliantly executed? Playing with people's lives is not 'brilliantly executed.' trump and his cronies don't have to worry about paying the rent next month. Would you accept this from your doctor telling you you have cancer, then says, just kidding, then says you need surgery, then says...?
we're still down almost 5k from February...and down 4.55% YTD. These yahoos will tell themselves anything to reassure themselves they voted accordingly. Also, they're profiting from market manipulation.
Attend your district office and DEMAND to know what member of Congress purchased stocks in the last 48 hours✊
It was the largest criminal market manipulation scheme ever conceived☠️
IT’S TIME TO BAN INSIDER TRADING IN CONGRESS!🚨
#BaninsidertradinginCongress
#impeachtrump
#Resist
In broad daylight!!
Yeah, trump has criminal smarts!
It would seem that the US is showing her true colors!!
After all, the country exists because of criminal activity!
The US needs to walk the talk of a just democracy!! …for once!
Attend your district office and DEMAND to know what member of Congress purchased stocks in the last 48 hours✊
It was the largest criminal market manipulation scheme ever conceived☠️
IT’S TIME TO BAN INSIDER TRADING IN CONGRESS!🚨
#BaninsidertradinginCongress
#impeachtrump #Resist
It was obvious by Monday that most of Trump's billionaire supporters were near bankrupt and their investment houses holding trillions of dollars in losses. Now Trump has the ultimate inside trade to bail them out from his "Liberation Day" after only a week. America probably lost a million businesses
He wrote that or any other book the same way I suspect he wrote any paper ever required in any class—he paid someone else to do it and then claimed credit.
His own sister told the story about how he paid a smart kid to take his college entrance exam. A professor said he was the dumbest student he’d ever had.
He had the audacity to demand to see Obama’s transcript but threatened to sue the University of PA if it ever released his transcript!
Well, IF you are one of the gazillionaires making MORE $$, then you would see this as brilliant.
But for the vast majority of Americans, and world citizens, this is nothing short of mass murder, as many will lose everything, including healthcare, and die.
Trump must have gotten the idea of the 90 day pause from him, trump really is a fucking puppet through and through, everyone around him pulling his strings trying to play and control the same puppet
Not really. When we gain back what we lost perhaps but big f'ing deal. He starts messing around in 90 days - or sooner if China doesn't play ball and they won't, we'll be right back where we just were.
I'm really not seeing why today changed anything. The 10% baseline tariff is still in place on everyone. The huge China tariff is still in place so domestic firms that source from China are still going to get creamed. It feels like everyone in the markets read the headline and then stopped reading.
Sadistic serial killers love to strangle and revive, strangle and revive their victims repeatedly. Sets off quite a few endorphins, I imagine, before it kills them. Same vibe here.
"The oligarchs have captured all the major news and social media outlets, stop expecting them to be better when it is not in their owner's interests to do so."
Such a BS statement. OF COURSE the market has never shot up like this before — because no one has ever done anything as stupid as Trump. Btw, it STILL hasn’t fully recovered.
I personally blame every single mainstream media provider including the NYT for the shitstorm we’re in. It’s only ankle deep now, but the sewers are gonna backup.
Yeah the net loss and unpredictability seem more important than how much it went up today. It’s like me gambling away a bunch of money losing game after game and then winning a single hand and bragging about my poker skills.
And when this sugar high is gone, they will be like "The economy is crashing, how could Trump do this to us??" The nepo journalist mainstream media doesn't care about the average person.
well, it certainly makes sense. rich guys got richer. he does this every time. how is everyone surprised at trump scaring the markets to get prices to drop and flex the muscle of the american consumer market to get better deals for himself and his rich buddies.
Half the world will continue to disentangle their fortunes from ours. A bunch of delusional, high-fiving stock brokers, high on visions of imaginary fortunes and futures, won't change that. Our fall is still in its infancy.
Yep as far as I’m concerned it’s just another imaginary “Sir” story until the nitwit produces a list of the countries and the individuals he spoke with. Wonder if there was video so he could see the tears in the eyes of the big burly men as they kissed his ass.
He fought off the drop in the Bond market - just enough to save it. Give it a couple of days and the Bond market will be threatened again. His bluff will be called because everyone knows he will blink, he always does.
Yes, it was "brilliant execution" of a stock market scam for Trump and his cronies to short the market at the expense of the public. Be ready for them to have another go shorting the market next month.
It’s never enough for them to make more money they don’t need and can’t spend at the expense of entire economies, industries, companies, owners and workers.
He's got a point. Art of the Deal was a warning describing the inane mindset of the man who hired the ghost-writer to write it for him. And we're seeing why the advice in that book was so bad in real time on an international stage.
I so wish leaders of other countries went on record by Friday last week claiming Donald had been calling them begging to negotiate some kind of deal, and that they weren’t taking his calls to help pre-empt this kind of nonsense.
The stupid lot will celebrate anything the felon does. I saw one of them here on my post yesterday. I blocked him and felt pity. How dumb can you be to be manipulated like that?
This pathetic sycophancy just reinforces Trump's belief that he can do any crazy shit he wants, get away with it, and have people kissing his ass even harder after the fact
Dude could just, like, not post. If I had that much money I'd be like Warren Buffet and have my online presence consist entirely of my company's website that looks like it was made in 1999
The biggest weakness of this administration is its delusional belief in its own invulnerability. They seriously think they are completely untouchable. And yet the reality is it's a Jenga tower leaning crazily as brick after brick is being pushed out.
WTF is he talking about?? The trillion dollar stock market loss that destroyed people’s 401ks is not coming back! How can a person with a head that big have absolutely nothing inside of it?
Wow! Ackman is literally willing to sell is soul to stay buddies with the man who has promised him a tax cut. I wonder what his grand children will say when the books are written?
He’s a Narcissistic sociopath who loves himself & only himself. So he has no problem being in a room by himself as long as there are plenty of mirrors.
Bill Ackman is not a serious person. I'm also getting real tired of saying journalists are unserious. It's bad for the beat and it's bad for the profession.
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Was this *also* part of Trump’s genius?
As in trading.
It is a new species of bottom feeding shitsucker?
This guy must just get off on being publicly wrong
What was happening in the stock markets and with Treasury bonds was just the beginning.
Exactly what it sounds like.
#billionaires are "Alpha" Men but they are also Lonely
I for sure know the answer now.
Under and Plunder.
Your 401K’s fed the greedy, for awhile anyway.
https://bsky.app/profile/ilbassfisherman.bsky.social/post/3lmgathuu2s2g
It was the largest criminal market manipulation scheme ever conceived☠️
IT’S TIME TO BAN INSIDER TRADING IN CONGRESS!🚨
#BaninsidertradinginCongress
#impeachtrump
#Resist
Yeah, trump has criminal smarts!
It would seem that the US is showing her true colors!!
After all, the country exists because of criminal activity!
The US needs to walk the talk of a just democracy!! …for once!
It was the largest criminal market manipulation scheme ever conceived☠️
IT’S TIME TO BAN INSIDER TRADING IN CONGRESS!🚨
#BaninsidertradinginCongress
#impeachtrump #Resist
Seems like an oversight, but apparently nobody tried for 250 years. 🤷
#FUCKTRUMP
Oh wait, the SEC chair is a Trump appointee—never mind.
does not respect himself
(pig man, pig man) 🎶
He had the audacity to demand to see Obama’s transcript but threatened to sue the University of PA if it ever released his transcript!
May this regime's demise be swift and certain.
(Sayin this for no reason)
But for the vast majority of Americans, and world citizens, this is nothing short of mass murder, as many will lose everything, including healthcare, and die.
-Dungeon Crawler Carl
So that really sums up the scope of the man, doesn't it?
It's what I would do.
Art of the deal my ass.
"The oligarchs have captured all the major news and social media outlets, stop expecting them to be better when it is not in their owner's interests to do so."
The rest of us with 401ks, IRAs and the like, nah it's BS. We still have less money than when all this crap started.
Another Press = Fail.
"Stocks rebound to seven day high" or the like would be the correct measured response.
liberals need to realize this. NOW.
Ackman: “Masterful gambit, sir.”
No one will even thank him afterwards.
maybe they are all in on confusion and bets and making their life a game. Maybe their excess wealth makes them feel empowered to be stupid. So be it
But I’m a so tired of ass backwards, harmful messaging that this shit is “brilliant” or “smart”
Just goes to show there are no felony manipulation rules anymore
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Whoops
https://bsky.app/profile/lovenlogic.bsky.social/post/3lmhgbpxms22y
Must have gotten an inside scoop to save his billions. Never mind lacking empathy they lack ethics.
honestly it’s pathetic. No honor at all in these assholes.