Let’s break this down: in summary- he’s shat his pants because US treasury bonds were being sold off like lemonade in a desert. He’s fucked up big time. And any other spin is bullshit.
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The spin may be bullshit, but until it stops being effective that really doesn't matter. People who want to believe the lie put Trump in office and now they're keeping him there. The lies that are not the problem. They've already been exposed. It's the willingness of the electorate believe them.
But when it settles down he'll start the whole saga off again, enriching himself as he manipulates the markets. He will go on doing this until he is stopped..
Someone on Capitol Hill has got to start behaving responsibly if they want sanity to return to world trade.
Please, can we all stop pretending this lunatic is a stable genius who has a master plan of any kind? It's actually fucking crazy making, and helps legitimize him.
You're right. He's a demented old man with an idée fixe. He's bouncing the market as if it were a basket ball,up & down.He has enough brain cells left to know that a bouncing market can make him even richer as long as he controls the bounce.
He will go on doing this until he is stopped.
I think he just knows you buy low and sell high, but he genuinely doesn't even recall he caused it. I think he maybe doesn't even remember already doing some of the tariffs he did.
There's the idea that he knew all these things would happen and he'd pause/reverse the decision eventually so his pals could maximize their profits. I'm still not sure he understands how bad this is.
Wrong. He did the same thing in his last term. He threatens, gets what he wants, and then pulls back. It's literally his way of doing business and being seen as unpredictable helps him pull it off. Think he gives a shit about bonds? Come on.
Oops 😬: my mistake!
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i’d read that as dessert 🧁🍨 instead of desert 🏜️, and so i spent some of my time wondering ‘lemon cake 🍰’ or ‘lemon ice cream 🍨’ or ‘lemon 🍋 ice 🧊 slushee’, or what exactly ?!?
Very few things more dangerous than someone who thinks they're the smartest person in the world, but in reality they're barely above minimal competency levels.
When other countries sell U.S. Treasuries, it can:
- Drive U.S. Bond Prices Down and Raise U.S. Interest Rates!
This:
- Makes Borrowing More Expensive;
- Slows U.S. Economic Growth; and
- Can Weaken Confidence in the Dollar!
Although I think you're right, I think there is also an aspect of fraud and market manipulation. He literally posted publicly to buy stocks now then removed the tariffs. It would be very interesting to see who bought what.
The bond market sell off is proof that certain key international markets no longer consider the US a long term safe and reliable economic bet. Hard to put that genie back in the bottle once it gets out. 90 day pauses on weird chaos policies won’t do it.
Notice the 10-year yield rose while bonds dumped. This is counterintuitive and in my understanding it's saying the market is calling for more liquidity by incentivizing bonds with a higher rate but still the international markets don't have trust in the dollar and are offloading. Very BAD!
But, he clearly warned all the 'right' people (the already very rich people he needs onside) about half an hour before he caved so they could exploit it, make millions and then continue to happily praise him.
It's disgusting. And he will do it again in 3 months time if no one stops him.
And how, do you suppose, markets react at EVERY tweet now that he's proven to be "right" on his calls. This is waaaay more dangerous than a one time P&D. Now they think he's giving THEM the info. I have a feeling the gyrations have only just begun and the milking hasn't even started.
Rarely does he backtrack but the indications over the last few days seem to have been enough to convince him. That and the ability of him and his pals to take in boat loads of guaranteed cash on the stock market.
You’re overlooking the market manipulation.
Granted, he did it earlier than expected. I mean the market rally was after his tweet but BEFORE the announcement.
Rich get richer.
This isn’t even remotely accurate! He does this intentionally to tank the market, so he and his buddies can buy up depressed securities. Then he magically waves away the tariffs and the stock prices go up. This is a grift. Everything he does is a drift. There is no other reason except crime.
He may have wanted that sure, but he capitulated because the bond market crashed and that would have ruined his rep and his cash flow.
Please, can we all stop pretending this lunatic is a stable genius who has a master plan of any kind? It's actually fucking crazy making, and helps legitimize him.
I spent a year in the crypto space (never traded - was more interested in learning). Is it possible they (he doesn’t act alone) want to destabilize the dollar to replace it with Bitcoin as a reserve currency? If so, mission accomplished AND they got a deal on stocks.
I think every single statement is part of a grift. This is all planned by him and his friends and they use Project 2025 actions to distract us from their stealing and lawlessness. As long as we’re fighting about immigrants and genitals, they can do whatever they want with the money.
Crypto is not stable enough for that. Most good crypto as you know is Stablecoin. The rest are like stocks, if markets fall that speculative value falls.
That's also why the rich did not just actually get richer, they lost trillions to gain billions. Stupid.
Please, can we all stop pretending this lunatic is a stable genius who has a master plan of any kind? It's actually fucking crazy making, and helps legitimize him.
His reversal prompted the S&P to climb overin just minutes.
Traders with inside information about what Trump was about to do, some presumably, Trump family members and cronies just made a fortune.
Trump’s chaos always creates winners and losers, and Trump makes sure he’s on the winning side.
Did 47 do a test run with tariff threats on Canada 🇨🇦 and Mexico 🇲🇽? Saw what the markets did and thought, hey I can manipulate the markets if I take this global!!! Give a few of my besties on the golf course some inside info in exchange for letting me win ⛳️
They still had trillions wiped out. $400 billion is peanuts. It just so happens to be the biggest gain ever. That doesn't mean they gained any actual worth, it means they had a large net gain.
Please stop pretending this lunatic has any sort of secret 4D chess plan, it legitimizes him.
In summary, at least one, and possibly several, of his big-dollar notional supporters spoke to him, and somewhere in there, he realized what they were saying is that he's cost them vastly more than they were willing to contribute to his endeavor, and they are considering other options.
But the ‘president’ doesn’t make mistakes. His brilliant strategy is always 3 steps ahead if everyone. He made his trillions by beating the opposition in every deal he’s ever made. The Nobel committee cannot decide whether to award him the prize for economics or peace, perhaps both together.
Nations like China and the European Union didn’t fold; they hit back with their own countermeasures, sending shockwaves through American agriculture, manufacturing, and tech industries.
Trump seems genuinely baffled that other countries don’t operate like contestants on one of his reality shows.
Trump’s post was 7 minutes after the NYSE opened—before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the 90-day pause on tariffs. The sequence and timing directly support insider trading and market manipulation. By informing people to buy before the policy was publicly disclosed, Trump broke the law.
I think we’re getting used to the lawbreaking. And why not? SCOTUS gave him a pass. Wait. Would that particular lawbreaking would be outside the presidential duties, right?
That post won't implicate him. It's revealing the actual timing of the announcement to certain people who then bought the S&P ETF and other instruments ten minutes beforehand. So who were those certain people?
Totally agree! And how long will it take the market to reflect that we are no better off with the change in the tariffs and bottom out again??? And he could change his mind again tomorrow.
It was an official act so he can do it, just like he can take an open bribe for a pardon. If the state isn't bound by law, there is no law. Chaos reigns!
Spreading the word and informing people is taking action and is something. When people have access to facts and information, they can make informed decisions—something they can’t do if they’re kept in the dark. That’s far more going to help than doing nothing at all or giving up on all hope.
When the people whom the administration considers normal rise up, then it quakes, especially when they're rising hand-in-hand (proverbial and literal) with those who have the most to lose.
They all collected what the what they took from our county and every other country they stole from. Genocide in full view. Take from the poor and give to himself and his crooked followers. Abusive felon!
Judges have been ordering Trump to stop illegal activities. Trump just... ignores them.
This is a man who thinks he's above the law. But he'll never be above the people
This is the whole story right here! T-bonds, countries fluffing his fragile ego, etc is the BS. Everything Trump does is a grift. Purely to make him money.
34 felonies. He doesn’t care about the law. When has it actually held him or his really accountable? If we had the felonies he had we’d be in jail still. They don’t care about the law.
We’re doing this. With each crime, Trump becomes further emboldened to commit the next. From the quid pro quo with two law firms in exchange for millions in pro bono legal counsel, to the latest insider trading—people are building strong, irrefutable cases against him, not capitulating to him.
PLEASE don't forget to include the congressional pension fund, SCOTUS + Ginny Thomas, the entire cabinet, RNC, CPAC, Federal judges, Oligarchs and ALL of their families, off-shore accounts and second cousin Vinny's.
When you are done with them - check out his dictator buddies.
OUR ONLY HOPE TO END THIS ARMAGEDON IS TO DO WHAT WE CAN AGAINST tRUMP sycophants in '26. THE TIME TO START IS NOW! CRANK UP THOSE WEEKLY TOWN HALLS! TERE ARE MANY WHO WILL LISTEN,"NOW". DC RHETORIC IS NUMB!
too bad we live in a post-law world where if MAGA breaks the law it's not breaking the law, but if non-MAGA doesn't break the law, it's breaking the law. Revolution now or never.
Yes, again. However, with each crime, Trump becomes further emboldened to commit the next. From the quid pro quo with two law firms in exchange for millions in pro bono legal counsel, to the latest insider trading—people are building strong, irrefutable cases against him, not capitulating to him.
I don’t know stocks, but isn’t it obvious manipulation & loss of the majority of people’s wealth so that only the top % rebuy and control? C’mon! Impeach already…
@operationanti-king.bsky.social is trying to get this to happen. It's a citizen's impeachment project that mobilized recently. It's working on getting confirmations from congress, and pressuring those who haven't commented or say no into supporting.
Okay, but - If DJT signed an executive order stating registered Democrats can't own firearms would that erode or strengthen MAGA support for him?
And don't tell me this is off the subject
But everyone knew that was the next step. He started a trade war with the largest holders of US debt. It's almost as if his economic advisors are fucking idiots.
The best part is, his word is shit. He could re-tariff everyone tomorrow morning if he sees fit. The US is untrustworthy is something every single country is now coming to understand.
His casual betrayal of our allies and our friends will be remembered long after his grave becomes a public toilet.
That's exactly what has happened. The Truss effect was kicking in as a global trade war looked certain, bond market shat itself, and someone told him the truth, do this, and the dollar economic hegemony is over. Liberation day lasted about 6 hours.
Unfortunately, the harm he's causing goes far beyond a few billionaires losing some useless coins. By delaying renewables to boost coal and oil, he's harming the planet, and people will die because of it. Sadly, we’ll see the consequences only when it’s too late, so nothing will be done about it.
Bigly screwed up. Bonds sell off means no fed interest rate drop. Poss scuppers tax rate drop for bigly billionaires.
Trust is gone...no one gives a shit how big your market is.
And in the end, instead of doing a tabula rasa and go all the way, he did a moronic half cocked 'see I'm good now' and we're still going to be slapped 3 ways to Sunday.
Please, can we all stop pretending this lunatic is a stable genius who has a master plan of any kind? It's actually fucking crazy making, and helps legitimize him.
Does anyone truly believe that these billionaires are not making a fortune while the stock markets go up or down? This is such a game. They are raking it in. Pound by pound. They are controlling the narrative and by it, controlling the markets. Wake up and smell a10$ cup of coffee.! Manipulation!
Selling bonds can be expensive for the seller in a falling market so to do so in volume illustrates the crisis in confidence in the US that now exists. A buyers strike is the next step
When cannibals say they’re going to eat you, believe them. This statement from one cannibal on the other! Bill Ackman said this about Lutnick! ‘He and Cantor are long bonds. He profits when our economy implodes.’ Follow the money! Best line in Watergate! Full 🛑! Period!
Please, can we all stop pretending this lunatic is a stable genius who has a master plan of any kind? It's actually fucking crazy making, and helps legitimize him.
There doesn't need to be a master plan for a financial crime to take place in a week. There is strong evidence the market was manipulated by the GOP. He is a convicted Felon. Genius no, evil yes.
Next up is threatening with Nukes when China doesn't back down and the American military industry runs out of critical minerals coming in from Asia and thus making it more expensive to produce the components needed.
But before it comes to that, invasion of Greenland and trying to dig thru the ice.
He's also only pulled back the tariffs. Foreign investors, and especially foreign governments aren't necessarily going to stop selling off US' bonds, or utilizing other currencies for their practices.
Like with his own fortune, he'd have made more money if he'd sat back and done nothing.
I sold some of my bonds this morning and more to go. I’m not going to have the Trump government F-around with their illegal schemes with TreasuryDirect and prevent me from access to cashing out.
He didn't "shit himself" & suddenly decide to drop the tariffs.
His plan all along was to sell his stock, drive share prices down with his ridiculous announcement & then buy them all back at a huge discount, before reversing it all.
I don't think he anticipated the rest of the world would dump treasuries. He could have let the market drop much further before winking at his buddies - but he didn't.
Please, can we all stop pretending this lunatic is a stable genius who has a master plan of any kind? It's actually fucking crazy making, and helps legitimize him.
Sorry, I see it differently...
He sold $3b stock in TS. He tanked the stock market and used those funds to buy depressed stocks them "paused" the tariffs to get the prices to rebound. It's idiotic, but something I can see him doing
There’s nothing wrong with that is there? When you’re a criminal like he is, getting away with murder, with no regard for the rule of law it’s OK. I’m Trump. I’m above law. I make the laws now you’re my bitches. I will do whatever the fuck I wanna do with the country now, and nothing you can do.
He will not be held accountable, it happens alot, he does criminal shit and the MAGA party lies about it, or doesn't acknowledge that it even happened, time and time again. SCOTUS gave him the authority to do as he pleases.
America has HUMUNGOUS debt and the countries he is threatening HOLD that debt and by their Bonds... he really is stupid and totally greedily self centred he isnt thinking about the country just himself
I think he was told that the next stage would be a run on the dollar and the need for currency controls, turning the US into Argentina overnight. Strange that would be a worry given how they worship Milei…
Or more likely he just made a few billion off the market by manipulating it … he didn’t fuck up at all he’s doing exactly what he wants to be doing. Making tons of money off Americans.
OK, but it’s hard to believe Trump didn’t intend to resend the tariffs anyway given the size of the wealth transfer to Trump and his friends in Congress.
Also his mega billionaires who thought they’d pick up cheap stocks on the bottom are now seeing their total assets in dollars drop to zero….diddums I’m so upset for them-they should fucking act to get rid of their poster boy
And he’s amassing even more debt with short sighted, bonehead decisions to needlessly feed his glutton donors. Re election grift That he doesn’t need. He’s done running.
Trump folded like a cheap suit. There’s no way he can spin this as anything other than every business leader telling him he’s an absolute economic imbecile and tariffs never work, never will. He is a grifter. Take away his $400m inheritance and he’s selling watches on the corner.
I’d be checking the movements in the past few days for fraudulent trading, not in his name of course. He has plenty of suckers who would do it for him.
People tend to focus on the stock market. US Treasuries also took a hit and have not recovered. Trump's chaotic behavior will hurt US Treasuries. This means higher interest rates
I'd agree if I thought for a second that he understood what the term "US treasury bonds" were, or that he somehow bypassed his narcissism to acknowledge that any of it was the result of his poor judgment.
Looks like the heartbeat of a billionaire who’s getting some life saving medication before he springs back from the dead. Wonder how many billions these crooks made on the bump. The jokes on us, he’s already started a treasury sell off, say hello to rampant inflation, my bet is 13% interest rate.
Please, can we all stop pretending this lunatic is a stable genius who has a master plan of any kind? It's actually fucking crazy making, and helps legitimize him.
It’s just not the republicans. Dems making money on this too. They all are! You wonder why no one able to stop him? It’s because they’re all too busy making money and eating the cake.
Well, Russian disinformation campaign was/is nice. And cheating republicans - Gerrymandering and voter suppression. It’s been years in the works with this. And the cult. We have a problem with selfishness. For sure. All
Time low with Trump modeling the culture.
There's not one business that can plan on what to do in the near and far future.
Planning on expanding or hiring has been paused. For this no I don't believe any country can trust the US. Why? Because there's a 6-year-old in the White House pouting!
Trump will talk w foreign leaders who will offer some harmless pig in a poke which Trump will accept and claim victory for a return to the status quo. Trump is a tiger behind the Prez podium and a pussy in face to face negotiations. And in 90 days we'll do it again.
By tweet not only because he was evacuating his bowels, but because he entirely lacks any leadership, courage or moral fibre. To admit failure in public would send him over the abyss that his fragile ego tiptoes along the edge of.
Trump reached up his ass and pulled out yet another policy shift.
Does anybody seriously think he has any idea what he’s doing? Is his cult still firmly with him?
Please, can we all stop pretending this lunatic is a stable genius who has a master plan of any kind? It's actually fucking crazy making, and helps legitimize him.
Exactly. Maybe they don't want to play the asshole's game anymore. He's gonna learn real fast that other countries have agency and will work around us. Millions of Americans need a dose of humility, tbh.
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Then he pauses the tariffs, and stocks rise…
He and his rich buddies sell high.
Rinse and Repeat…over, and over again.
It isn’t Rocket Science…
It’s actually criminal.
https://bsky.app/profile/warren.senate.gov/post/3lmfzlo7wdc24
Someone on Capitol Hill has got to start behaving responsibly if they want sanity to return to world trade.
He will go on doing this until he is stopped.
I think he just knows you buy low and sell high, but he genuinely doesn't even recall he caused it. I think he maybe doesn't even remember already doing some of the tariffs he did.
The insider trading was just a side-show for the vultures circling him.
Bonds getting sold off is a long-term damage you can't repair easily.
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i’d read that as dessert 🧁🍨 instead of desert 🏜️, and so i spent some of my time wondering ‘lemon cake 🍰’ or ‘lemon ice cream 🍨’ or ‘lemon 🍋 ice 🧊 slushee’, or what exactly ?!?
Very few things more dangerous than someone who thinks they're the smartest person in the world, but in reality they're barely above minimal competency levels.
When other countries sell U.S. Treasuries, it can:
- Drive U.S. Bond Prices Down and Raise U.S. Interest Rates!
This:
- Makes Borrowing More Expensive;
- Slows U.S. Economic Growth; and
- Can Weaken Confidence in the Dollar!
Selling #USA Treasuries - Hurts Every #American!
It's disgusting. And he will do it again in 3 months time if no one stops him.
Granted, he did it earlier than expected. I mean the market rally was after his tweet but BEFORE the announcement.
Rich get richer.
Please, can we all stop pretending this lunatic is a stable genius who has a master plan of any kind? It's actually fucking crazy making, and helps legitimize him.
Also, the crypto world sucks.
I believe his Greenland plan is to attack and have Russia “save” Greenland and occupy it.
Nothing is off the table. Every outrageous idea is totally possible.
That's also why the rich did not just actually get richer, they lost trillions to gain billions. Stupid.
I’ve been to crypto conferences and they talk about this stuff. You don’t think maybe they believe their own hype and have the hubris to attempt it?
I’m not saying it’s going to work. In fact, it will fail. We need a plan.
Check bond yields and the Twitter leaks on Monday along with Hassert's comments on Monday, denied by the WH
https://bsky.app/profile/tw33tzr4kidz.bsky.social/post/3lmg4af4qak22
This allowed cronies to sell the bonds, buy the equities
while the rest of us wondered about broken T bond direction.
Traders with inside information about what Trump was about to do, some presumably, Trump family members and cronies just made a fortune.
Trump’s chaos always creates winners and losers, and Trump makes sure he’s on the winning side.
#GetGoneAmazon
You have to have no soul at all in order to do the things he is doing to Americans.
Guarantee you they have made a fortune in the last hour.
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But I'm an eternal optimist.
Please stop pretending this lunatic has any sort of secret 4D chess plan, it legitimizes him.
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If I held those bonds I’d still sell because it’s obvious that something is rotten in DC
and the US
Repeat
Profit.
Cheat.
$$$$
and someone correct me if I am wrong
the world does not trust the good ol' USA enough to purchase bonds...
they might default
as Trump as stiffed so many that he personally owes money to
In the latest twist of political theater, 'Forrest Trump' reminded the world that "stupid is, as stupid does," as he paused his economically reckless tariff crusade for 90 days.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/donald-forrest-trump-s-humiliating-tariff-climbdown-is-a-panicked-retreat-dressed-up-as-victory/ar-AA1CCtmg?ocid=socialshare&pc=HCTS&cvid=020f3d0191904378a8ea38cf87e5cc02&ei=10
Trump seems genuinely baffled that other countries don’t operate like contestants on one of his reality shows.
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"We have to assume that. There's no evidence to suggest he meant stocks"- John Roberts
But who is going to take them to task ??
Certainly won’t be Trump’s DOJ.
Is there another body that could investigate ? One that isn’t in on the scam ?
CNBC: Trump's morning 'buy' call nets huge returns for those who listened
This is a man who thinks he's above the law. But he'll never be above the people
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And don't tell me this is off the subject
JDT shares gained over 21% on announcement of 90-day freeze on measures
down to original % (which is still going to cause higher prices)
His casual betrayal of our allies and our friends will be remembered long after his grave becomes a public toilet.
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Trust is gone...no one gives a shit how big your market is.
He did not plan this, there's no art in this. He's a dementia patient, you really think he has the presence of mind to PLAN to con the markets?
The sanewashing even on the Left is real.
Or do you think they're all clowns who just know that you buy low and sell high?
You are not sanewashing this administration right now. Say syke right now.
Nobody country wants anything to do with the US right now, except maybe Russia. And they're fucking bankrupt.
But before it comes to that, invasion of Greenland and trying to dig thru the ice.
Well shit. I guess I overestimated his game plan here and they skipped a step.
Like with his own fortune, he'd have made more money if he'd sat back and done nothing.
The damage is severe and already done but not irreparable.
It's factually incorrect.
He didn't "shit himself" & suddenly decide to drop the tariffs.
His plan all along was to sell his stock, drive share prices down with his ridiculous announcement & then buy them all back at a huge discount, before reversing it all.
It's basic insider trading.
An interesting interpretation.
He sold $3b stock in TS. He tanked the stock market and used those funds to buy depressed stocks them "paused" the tariffs to get the prices to rebound. It's idiotic, but something I can see him doing
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They didn't.
That's why he panicked.
But I'm sure someone had to tell him like he was a 5 year old.
He is OPENLY stealing from the world financial markets.
Violations of HUNDREDS of federal laws.
Traitor Trump is a serial felon.
But we all already knew that.
Nice country ya got there. Shame if anything happened to it.
The US monopolizes all of them.
And I love that none of the keystone cops economic advisors told him who owns our debt
He's playing with our welfare like we're a deck of cards.
His friends are getting richer with INSIDER TRADE.
Watch the same stocks on the nasdaq how they move just before he says again that tariffs are going back on.
Same old🍊💩Felon
Market Manipulator
Announced on Truth Social b4 official announcement.
Total BS💩
Time low with Trump modeling the culture.
TOO LITTLE AND FAR TOO LATE...
This is how a not very smart child would manage a country, pushing and shoving his or her friends around.
Let's try a push and then a shove...and we'll see what happens...
There's not one business that can plan on what to do in the near and far future.
Planning on expanding or hiring has been paused. For this no I don't believe any country can trust the US. Why? Because there's a 6-year-old in the White House pouting!
Does anybody seriously think he has any idea what he’s doing? Is his cult still firmly with him?
Narcissists will never be convinced they did wrong
The rest of the world is already engaged in building new trade agreements to offset the blackmail attempted by Trump.
The U.S. is the country begging for meetings, not the other way around.
#FactsMatter