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Orange Bastard screws stock market...AGAIN

Fat Orange Fuck's tariff nonsense rattles the market again today - Friday, August 1, 2025. Curbed job growth, looming inflation and those fucking tariffs conspired to lower global markets. So those intrepid investors with holdings in foreign markets get screwed. I firmly believe that Trump is a moron and doesn't know shit about economics. However, I am now convinced that he is deliberately manipulating the market to enrich himself and his friends. Every credible source has explained in terms that a 5 year old can understand that tariffs will be a drag on trade and lead to increased cost for goods. Americans will pay more for everything with tariffs. He knows and does not care, his whole modus operandi is to tank the market so he can buy low. Since he can't get Powell to lower rates, he is using the one tool at his disposal. This tariff foolishness.

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by Anonymousreply 44August 2, 2025 1:14 PM

And his qult is too dumb to care. Until they pay higher prices.

We told you so, fucktards.

by Anonymousreply 1August 1, 2025 3:10 PM

Someone posted this in the treason thread: The U.S. economy added 73,000 jobs in July, far below expectations of 110,000. May figures were revised down by -125,000, from +144,000 to +19,000. June was revised down by -133,000, from +147,000 to +14,000.

All that crowing about the jobs report last month and it was a lie.

by Anonymousreply 2August 1, 2025 3:14 PM

Well, it's a Trumpy-Trump world -- what did you expect?

by Anonymousreply 3August 1, 2025 3:17 PM

How long before he TACOs? A Scaramucci?

by Anonymousreply 4August 1, 2025 3:36 PM

Trump doesn't care, he's off golfing this weekend.

by Anonymousreply 5August 1, 2025 3:42 PM

But the NYTimes says he’s doing great with tariffs.

by Anonymousreply 6August 1, 2025 3:52 PM

Trump is a economic genius!

by Anonymousreply 7August 1, 2025 4:11 PM

The NYTIMES did not say that R6. What they said is Trump is winning, meaning he's getting his way with tariffs. However remember the saying, be careful what you wish for. Well, Trump's wishes came true, now comes the fallout because he's ignorant about economics.

by Anonymousreply 8August 1, 2025 4:37 PM

NYT needs better headline writers.

by Anonymousreply 9August 1, 2025 5:10 PM

He's deliberately trying to tank the economy to force Powell to lower interest rates

by Anonymousreply 10August 1, 2025 5:19 PM

[quote]Trump doesn't care, he's off golfing this weekend.

I believe he does care. His whole persona is him believing he knows the economy better than anyone else. And the stock market is a direct measure of his effectiveness. It's not like immigration where he can just make up numbers, or have ICE/CBP fudge numbers for him. Everyone can see the market. And he doesn't want to lost the support of investors.

He cares...a lot.

by Anonymousreply 11August 1, 2025 5:43 PM

The stock market isn't the only thing he's tanking. Remember when he was going to bring manufacturing back to the US?

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by Anonymousreply 12August 1, 2025 5:47 PM

R11

by Anonymousreply 13August 1, 2025 5:50 PM

All he had to do was golf. Just golf. Everything would have been ok. He’s doing so much fucking dancing and diversion, here’s the latest. How much more can this bastard do before he gets removed? Answer: a lot more.

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by Anonymousreply 14August 1, 2025 5:58 PM

He's in a panic over the job #s:

"I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory ... I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games. Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!'

by Anonymousreply 15August 1, 2025 6:35 PM

Scott Baio IN as Commissioner of Labor Statistics!

by Anonymousreply 16August 1, 2025 6:38 PM

Flailing. But you voted for this Amerikkka.

by Anonymousreply 17August 1, 2025 6:46 PM

What is up with these massive jobs revisions? There was one HUGE one under Biden last year as well, which just made the administration look foolish after they touted the numbers for months on end. What are the statisticians there doing?

And of course he'll replace the Biden appointee with a MAGA true believer now, so you'll never be able to believe anything that comes out of that office until they're replaced.

by Anonymousreply 18August 1, 2025 6:52 PM

"Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

by Anonymousreply 19August 1, 2025 6:56 PM

The "Biden Appointee" was confirmed to her post by a Republican Senate in a vote of 89 to 8.

by Anonymousreply 20August 1, 2025 6:56 PM

So she's been fucking up for two (three?) administrations now, great.

by Anonymousreply 21August 1, 2025 7:04 PM

Next month’s jobs report:

“The U.S. added TWO TRILLION JOBS in the month of August! Unemployment has dropped to an all-time low of zero! This is the greatest jobs report of all time! And all thanks to President Trump and his wonderful tariffs! Make America Work Again!”

by Anonymousreply 22August 1, 2025 7:04 PM

[quote]"I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory ... I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified."

And you guys thought being a statistician was stable and boring!

I had three of my bosses fired for falsifying data (or ordering me to) while I was a statistician, and one of them -- at my very last job -- worked for the (not FL) state government in a pretty high position. Bye-bye, Fred -- you asshole!

BTW, De Satan got rid of his statistician, smeared her good name, and had her arrested on trumped-up charges (pun not intended) for refusing to supply the data he wanted during covid. She turned herself in.

When you work as a statistician, you should get hazardous duty pay.

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by Anonymousreply 23August 1, 2025 7:33 PM

They are destroying every institution they can. What will be left is just power plays. Whoever has the money or guns or clout. What a way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

by Anonymousreply 24August 1, 2025 7:40 PM

80 million people voted for this idiot because they didn't think the colored woman could handle the pressure.

Wanna blame somebody? Blame these 80 million assholes!

by Anonymousreply 25August 1, 2025 8:03 PM

I had expected this craziness in January before Trump was inaugurated and took 75% of my 401K out of the stocks and bonds and put the funds in term annuities as a safeguard. I'm too close to retirement to ride the economic downturn for the next decade or so hoping for a recovery. It took close to a decade for my 401k portfolio to recover after the 2008 financial crisis, I am am unwilling to go through another lost decade.

by Anonymousreply 26August 1, 2025 8:04 PM

He's firing the labor stats person because it was shown there was a downturn in jobs. Of course, he wants someone who will fudge the numbers. Moron.

by Anonymousreply 27August 1, 2025 8:08 PM

[quote] 80 million people voted for this idiot because they didn't think the colored woman could handle the pressure.

That is NOT why they voted for Dump. They KNEW she could handle the pressure and that's why they didn't want her.

by Anonymousreply 28August 1, 2025 8:45 PM

"Defeatists will be summarily executed!"

by Anonymousreply 29August 1, 2025 8:47 PM

Truth has no place in this administration.

by Anonymousreply 30August 1, 2025 8:52 PM

The stock market has largely become a short term options trading slot machine so to the worthless retarded “job creators” who gamble them with daddy’s money the volatility is fantastic.

by Anonymousreply 31August 1, 2025 8:54 PM

[quote]80 million people voted for this idiot because they didn't think the colored woman could handle the pressure.

As the great Paul Mooney said, "White people will never disappoint you in behaving like White people."

by Anonymousreply 32August 1, 2025 8:59 PM

R25 Stop inflating the votes Trump got in 2024.

Trump: 77,303,568 49.81% Harris: 75,019,230 48.34%

Trump got only 1.85% more votes than Harris, and got less than 50% of the total votes, so he does NOT even have a mandate.

by Anonymousreply 33August 1, 2025 9:03 PM

R11, the fluctuations are due to decreasing numbers of companies responding to the BLS survey and summer hiring trends such as sharp decreases in education employment during the summer. Both Bloomberg and the WSJ are reporting on this. Financial people are really concerned we're going into a period of stagflation which hasn't happened since the 1970s. Trump and his tariffs are fucking with the global economy of which we are a large part of. Maybe the hair dye has seeped into his brain.

by Anonymousreply 34August 2, 2025 12:51 AM

Yeah, R34 - I watched Steve Liesman on CNBC explain it. I said he cares. He's still a fucking idiot with the chance to wreck the economy.

by Anonymousreply 35August 2, 2025 1:51 AM

Stupid, arrogant, know nothing orange prick.

Hope he loses HIS job

by Anonymousreply 36August 2, 2025 4:08 AM

His idiot brain thinks tariffs are the answer. Wrong again, bloated blowhard.

by Anonymousreply 37August 2, 2025 5:06 AM

Why are they avoiding Mag-a-Lardo? They've been going to Bedminster instead for over a month.

I say 'they' but Melontits probably isn't with him. And where's The Barron? How is he spending his summer off from school?

by Anonymousreply 38August 2, 2025 5:43 AM

^ Maybe there's young Jersey cooze at Bedminster.

by Anonymousreply 39August 2, 2025 5:51 AM

Expect nothing but LIES coming from what used to be OUR government from here on out. America, you’re a joke.

by Anonymousreply 40August 2, 2025 6:05 AM

The clocks are striking thirteen.

by Anonymousreply 41August 2, 2025 8:37 AM

R26, that probably wasn’t the best move. The one thing Trump cares about is the stock market. He will reverse any policy if it hurts the market. I stayed in during Trump 1 and now Trump 2. So far so good but sleeping at night is important too. The money isn’t worth it if you can’t do that.

by Anonymousreply 42August 2, 2025 9:08 AM

R42, the one thing Dump didn’t really fuck with in his first term was the economy. The market responded in kind and went up generously. Of course, Covid eventually fucked it up enough. But this time, it seems the economy is his primary focus for some idiotic reason. Every move he makes is designed to I still chaos and uncertainty, and the markets despise both of those things. Things will get much worse if he continues on this course.

Big business can’t be happy about that.

by Anonymousreply 43August 2, 2025 1:13 PM

^instill at my post at r43.

by Anonymousreply 44August 2, 2025 1:14 PM
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